
Six months ahead of cloud service launch in Europe, Dell has widened the scope of its cloud offerings for the members of PartnerDirect in the entire UK and Europe. Various US partners of the company were interested in extending leeway of Dell's cloud services but now, when it has been six months since its launch in the region, the company decided to do so. The company has officially launched the services which would be offered under the PartnerDirect program. Along with this, Dell has also disclosed its third cloud storage channel certification in the region which would be probably the last of its channels.


The global tech company Nvidia shook up the GPU market with the launch of its much affordable GTX 660 Ti based on the latest Kepler architecture, the same Kepler which has been on the market since months in the form of high-end graphics cards. The $399 GTX 670, $499 GTX 680 and the $999 GTX 690 are all the great cards based on the Nvidia's Kepler architecture and best in terms of performance, but with prices that most of the gamers can't justify. At just $299, Nvidia has managed to bridge down the gap between its slightly better 630/640 series graphics cards and the high-performance 680/690 series GPUs.
SUSE, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, launched its first cloud product which is commercially supported, on 29th August, 2012 at the CloudOpen Conference. SUSE Cloud, powered by OpenStack, is a platform of cloud management that is automated and enables easy constant management and rapid deployment of an IaaS, private cloud.