Google will now be able to assure its customers that their data is hosted in European datacentres after announcing upgrades to its Google Cloud platform. According to the technology giant it is increasing its European datacentre support, ...
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Tom Baker, head of ICT at Sunderland City Council, has an office in the council's datacentre. It is not a bad place to have an office because the datacentre has been somewhat rejuvenated, thanks in part to modern IT that takes up far less ...
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Amazon has introduced the second generation of its EC2 computing on-demand infrastructure as a service cloud service, with higher performance processing designed for larger applications. The Second Generation Standard Instances offer 50% ...
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Holland-based LeaseWeb has opted for storage software from Nexenta on commodity hardware as a platform for its cloud computing platform. The company chose Nexenta over HP, IBM, NetApp and open source storage products for the project, which ...
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It seems like just yesterday that we saw the release of Sabayon 9 with its three desktop flavors,but already the project team behind the popular Linux distribution has launched a new version. Sabayon 10 made its official debut late last ...
Microsoft has launched Visual Studio 2012 and .Net Framework 4.5, its integrated development platform for building and managing applications. The company hopes developers will use the latest Visual Studio and .Net platform to build ...
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Acclaimed Microsoft partner supplements new System Center release with powerful IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management and Data Management GATINEAU, QC, September 01, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Provance today announced new ...
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Computerworld Hong Kong - At a Computerworld Hong Kong event years ago, I heard a senior executive explain how online retailer Amazon re-engineered their e-commerce process for the Christmas gift-giving season. Like many retail ...
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Many businesses are still reluctant to move sensitive data into an outsourced datacentre,according to analyst Gartner. The findings,based on Gartner's latest annual survey of the state of risk management programmes globally,show that many ...
Tags: Gartner, keep data in-house, risk management programmes, cloud computing
Cloud provider opts for X-IO hybrid SSD arrays UK remote applications and telecoms provider RTW Hosting has implemented more than £600,000 worth of X-IO Hyper ISE and ISE 2 storage arrays to achieve a 2,471% IOPS performance ...
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An IDC study has found that businesses using Amazon's cloud services over the past five years have made considerable savings. The Amazon-commissioned survey was based on interviews with 11 large and mid-sized organisations,based in North ...
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SAP's cloud business is growing thanks to the acquisition of online HR software provider SuccessFactors, according to the company's latest financial results. Last December SAP acquired SuccessFactors for $3.4bn, as a key part of SAP's ...
Tags: online HR software, SAP, SuccessFactors, cloud product
Akamai has signed deals with 15 European broadcasters to stream live footage of the London 2012 Olympic Games across its network. The company will use its existing content delivery cloud platform to provide both live and on-demand videos ...
Tags: Akamai, London 2012 Olympic Games, cloud platform, viewing experience