Oracle's emphasis on cloud computing isn't going to wane anytime soon. To the contrary, on Thursday the vendor held the first in nearly 100 Cloud Builder Summit events scheduled for locations across the globe between now and December. ...
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Cloud computing is all about cutting costs, but some organisations that are going down that road are reporting increased cost instead. How is this possible? According to Marc Noble, director of government affairs for (ISC)2, he knows of ...
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HP has launched a new programme enabling businesses to hire network infrastructure from the company on a pay per use basis. The FlexNetwork Utility Advantage programme will use communications service providers as partners to be the ...
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CIOs across Europe are predicting their IT budgets will increase by an average of 2% in 2013, despite the downturn. But investment on capital projects will slow, as operational spending assumes higher proportion of the IT budget, research ...
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Surrey County Council has hired BT to bring together at least 20 of its public services onto one network. BT will replace up to 40 separate networks to provide internet, fixed telephony, wide area network (WAN), local area network (LAN) ...
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The industry has welcomed the European Commission's (EC's) ambitious cloud computing strategy but insisted more efforts are needed in areas of cloud standardisation, security and data protection if the EC'sforecasts are to be met. The ...
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The European Commission (EC) is considering making it mandatory for companies to report cyber attacks to harness the benefits of open dialogue, says vice-president Neelie Kroes. Despite industry opposition, open discussion about cyber ...
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IDG News Service - IBM has teamed with AT&T to offer secure shared cloud services to customers over private networks rather than the public Internet, the companies said Tuesday. The service to be delivered from early next year is targeted ...
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CSC has stemmed losses in its 10-year outsourcing deal with Royal Mail through a combination of job cuts, tax breaks and relief payments, according to an analysis of eight years of published accounts for the venture. The supplier signed ...
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Fife Council will slash £2.4m from its network infrastructure costs over the next four years by moving to a public services network (PSN). The council signed the deal with Updata for a managed network services and expects to see a ...
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Window's cloud service, Azure, suffered an outage on 26 July because of a "safety valve" configuration error, Microsoft has said. The outage, which affected parts of Western Europe for more than two hours, meant that customers experienced ...
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Samsung announced a new range of products under the name Ativ last night, making it the first manufacturer to reveal its Windows Phone 8 mobile device. The Ativ S smartphone was unveiled at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, ...
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Speaking at Business Cloud Summit 2012, Denise McDonagh, director of the government's G-Cloud programme, called for public sector champions to push forward adoption of the G-Cloud. G-Cloud is in its third year of development. "We have to ...
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When Ken Stephens, a senior vice president of Xerox Cloud Services, tried to hire a product manager from IBM recently, he had quite a shock. "I offered him a 40 percent raise," Stevens said in an interview. "But then IBM came back and gave ...
With an extensive portfolio of services, dished out with a self-service portal, and priced with charge back mechanism, the Siva group is operating arguably one of the most mature private clouds in the country. Organization: The US$3 ...
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