Amazon Web Services (AWS) has lowered the cost of running Windows on its cloud, while Google announced a reduction on all Compute Engine pricing. Google has also expanded the number of virtual servers users can choose from and made its ...
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Oracle has extended its data center fabric to its Sparc-based Unix platforms, promising to let enterprises tie more servers and applications into the high-speed infrastructure. The fabric technology, which Oracle acquired in its purchase ...
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Alcatel-Lucent is promising more manageable cloud computing through Nuage Networks, an internal startup that is making its formal debut on Tuesday. Nuage has been Alcatel's wholly owned vehicle for developing its SDN (software-defined ...
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Microsoft has released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure that will make it easier to deploy and manage Hadoop clusters and integrate more mobile apps with the cloud platform. To simplify the roll out of big data applications, ...
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Japanese tech firm NEC is to make an agressive play for dominance of western telecommunications and energy storage markets, one of its executives has revealed to Computing. Power rangers: Fujitsu, Docomo and NEC form smartphone chip ...
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NTT Communications, the IT arm of Japan's main telecommunications operator, is aggressively expanding its data center operations outside the country as part of a push to offer its cloud-hosting services worldwide. The company has opened ...
Hewlett-Packard is set to deliver a new blade that will quadruple the virtual desktops that can be deployed from one server compared to the company's previous offerings. The HP ProLiant WS460c Gen8 blade server uses graphics processors to ...
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Intel today released a version of its SSD-based Cache Acceleration Software (CAS) for Linux servers, which it said can offer up to 18 times the performance for read-intensive applications, such as on-line transaction processing systems. ...
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Intel today released a version of its SSD-based Cache Acceleration Software (CAS) for Linux servers, which, the firm said, can offer up to 18 times the performance for read-intensive applications, such as on-line transaction processing ...
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With the release of the first service pack for Microsoft System Center 2012, Microsoft is taking another step in its ambitious goal of helping customers manage their on-premises IT and Microsoft Azure cloud services with a single set of IT ...
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Sharon Kincl to champion the cloud service provider's financial and investor relations PeakColo, a leading enterprise-class IaaS Cloud service provider to service providers, announced the addition of Ms. Sharon Kincl as Vice President of ...
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Storage is a key component of IT strategy. After all, data is the lifeblood of any business. But storage is there to provide data for processing by business critical applications, and the way that data is processed is undergoing huge ...
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Some cloud providers fail to detect and block malicious traffic originating from their networks, which provides cybercriminals with an opportunity to launch attacks in a botnet-like fashion, according to a report from Australian security ...
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Palo Alto Networks Tuesday unveiled the first virtualized version of its next-generation firewall, server-based software intended to run on the VMware platform to allow security managers to set up firewall application-layer controls in ...
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The first stable version of Qubes OS,an open source desktop operating system designed to provide a greater level of security by isolating programs inside virtual machines with different permissions,was released Monday by Polish security ...