Microsoft has announced that it will introduce message encryption for its cloud-based Office 365 service in early 2014. Dubbed Office 365 Message Encryption, the system will automatically encrypt email to anyone outside a company ...
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Google has announced plans to continue its rollout of solar energy plants in the U.S. with an $80million investment for six new facilities; its second largest ?to date. So far, Google has committed over $1 billion to wind and solar power ...
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Congressional lawmakers held hearings this week to determine what, if any, changes can be made to U.S. government surveillance programs, with Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) calling for increased transparency into federal data collection ...
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Most global organisations have “too many data centres in too many countries”, according to analyst Gartner, and that in order to cut costs and optimise service delivery, they only need two on each continent they operate in. ...
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Enterprises and service providers are looking beyond collections of boxes and toward virtual data centers that are better at growing and changing, and now application services such as security and acceleration are about to fit into that ...
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The Agile Switch S12700 uses a fully-programmable switching architecture, and automatic network deployment and management applications. Featuring a 1.5GB buffer on each line card, the S12700 supports 48*10GE and 8*100GE line cards, and ...
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Google is set to invest an extra €450m (£385m) into its Finnish data centre, the web giant has revealed. Based in a mill formerly owned by paper company Stora Enso, the Hamina data centre in Southern Finland has already seen ...
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Facebook has admitted that teen interest in the popular social media website is waning, even though the number of users grew marginally in the last quarter. "We did see a decrease in [teenage] daily users [during the quarter], especially ...
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The latest documents to be leaked via whistleblower Edward Snowden suggest that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and GCHQ have tapped the communications networks of popular internet companies. "Top secret" documents published in the ...
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BT has signed a multi-million pound contract with Oracle, for the technology giant's human capital management (HCM) software suite. The exact financial terms were not disclosed. Further reading Rural broadband rollout slammed for ...
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F5 Networks has used GITEX to big up its cloud credentials this week, as it seeks to educate customers about the reality of doing business on the cloud. According to Vincent Lavergne, Senior Pre Sales Manager, South EMEA, F5 hopes to ...
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Thomson Reuters CTO James Powell claimed that as a major provider of electronic information his organisation has been managing big data for more than two decades. "The term is overused, but we've been a big data organisation for more than ...
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Virtualisation giant VMware's push into the networking space may have strained its relationship with partner Cisco - which specialises in the area - but VMware believes that it will patch things up with the San Jose, California-based firm. ...
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Social networking giant Facebook is to acquire mobile data compression start-up Onavo in a bid to make its services more cross-platform - especially for users accessing the service on mobile devices. Founded in 2010 by Guy Rosen and Roi ...
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Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has not saved end users a vast amount of money to date, and saving costs is not the main reason that organisations opt for VDI, according to VMware's head of public services strategy, Andy Tait. ...
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