To benefit from a growing Chinese market, Microsoft on Thursday said it is increasing its investment in the country, with new hires, more research for local requirements, and an expansion to additional cities and provinces to bring cloud ...
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Phoenix IT today confirmed it was investigating issues within its own accounting that could lead to a £14m reduction in its net assets. The firm, which provides managed hosting, cloud and networking services to UK businesses, ...
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The wireless local area network(LAN)market is growing,with companies still investing in infrastructure,despite the economic climate. Networking and telecoms research organisation,the Dell'Oro group,reported sales for wireless ...
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With downward price pressures, the excess capacity that providers must have on hand for peak traffic becomes a drag on profits. After the cloud gold-rush era is over, providers will need to find ways to turn that cost center into a profit ...
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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 ...
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Rackspace has released Cloud Monitoring,which includes an API designed to give users flexibility in monitoring websites and Web applications that run on a variety of platforms,the company said on Wednesday. Cloud Monitoring is based on ...
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Specsavers moved to an IT service management system from BMC Software when it wanted to become ITIL compliant and standardise the service globally. The optical retail chain implemented BMC FootPrints in 2008, when it upgraded a system ...
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Job site RecruitmentGenius.com has cut hosting costs by 90%by moving to cloud infrastructure. RecruitmentGenius.com is saving GBP112,000 a year by moving onto hosting provided by ElasticHosts. RecruitmentGenius.com uses the cloud ...
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SMEs say they are concerned over the delay in the accreditation process for G-Cloud services. The pan-government accreditation process on G-Cloud services for information deemed sensitive is being carried out by IT security arm CESG. No ...
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Dell has dropped two places to fourth largest PC supplier in Western Europe as it strives to transform from PC manufacturer to services organisation. According to Gartner's latest PC shipment figures, a total of 13.6 million units were ...
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Indian outsourcer Infosys Tuesday unveiled a package of services and technologies that aim to help companies deploying hybrid clouds. Fragmentation of enterprise workloads across technologies and services running on both private clouds ...
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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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Many users of cloud data services are entirely unaware of inherent security risks,and security can only improve if customers pressure providers to deliver it,Frank Coggrave,VP of sales,EMEA&APAC at Guidance Software,has told Computing. ...
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The lack of established cloud standards and interoperability has made it difficult to move workloads between private clouds and public clouds and some experts say these problems hinder cloud adoption. Without any industry-wide cloud ...
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IDG News Service-Following a four-month beta period,Rackspace has started offering its hosted servers and databases using the open source OpenStack suite of cloud software. That OpenStack has been pressed into production use just two ...
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