Global datacentre traffic will grow four times by 2016 to reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually, Cisco Systems' Global Cloud Index has forecast. Cisco Systems' Global Cloud Index also predicted that cloud traffic – a major ...
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IBM has closed its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Kenexa, intended to boost IBM’s enterprise social collaboration offerings with Kenexa’s cloud-based human resources applications and IT services. IBM paid $46 per share for ...
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Oracle is planning to broaden the footprint of its cloud software portfolio with seven new services covering developer team services, analytics, collaboration and other areas, Executive Vice President of Product Development Thomas Kurian ...
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Boundary is trying to reach more customers for its application performance monitoring service with a free version that has all the same features as the existing offering. The service has also been upgraded to simplify problem diagnosis, the ...
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Moves to subsume Autonomy into HP have lent an increasing amount of irony to the company’s name, following the departure of founder Mike Lynch and the expansion of its key tools to become add-ons across a much broader range of ...
Nationwide Insurance talked up its enterprise collaboration systems at last week's SharePoint Conference,offering a glimpse into a best-of-breed strategy that is becoming everbmore popular. Nationwide,which uses IBM's Lotus Notes for ...
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Global revenue for platform as a service(PaaS)will grow consistently for five years from 2012 to reach$2.9bn in 2016,up from$900m in 2011,according to research firm Gartner. But as the platform-as-a-service delivery model grows,it will ...
Mark Adams-Wright, CIO of Suffolk County Council is a firm believer in making changes to the business gradually. He is overseeing an IT change that is supporting a major transformation in the role of the council – from a provider of ...
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IBM plans to boost its enterprise social line of software by acquiring Kenexa, a maker of cloud-based human resources applications, the companies said on Monday. IBM has agreed to pay US$46 per share for Kenexa in a cash transaction worth ...
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IDG News Service - Cloud services promise low cost-of-entry and rapid return on investment, but those advantages make it easy to overlook associated investments. To find out the true return on investment of cloud computing enterprises ...
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