Rackspace was one of the first players in the cloud arena. The company recognized early that enterprises wanted faster, simpler ways to spin up and spin down servers. If the bosses are going to be fickle and impulsive, there will always be ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making a foray into the data warehousing segment with the launch of Redshift, a cloud-based data warehouse service. It announced the Redshift service, along with Amazon S3 price cuts, at its first ever user ...
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Investment supports growth to meet current customer demand and market expansion. PeakColo, a leading provider of enterprise-class Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions, announced today that it has raised $7.5 million in growth equity ...
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Amazon has gained a clear lead as the preferred environment for software developers looking to use the cloud for building applications. A global study, conducted by Forrester Research, polling developers with experience of using cloud ...
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IT infrastructure company SCC has become the first supplier on the government’s CloudStore to win pan-government security accreditation. The firm has gained accreditation for its multi-tenanted infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) ...
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RedHat has made CloudForms generally available after a year of beta testing, but some experts think the cloud platform doesn't give enterprises all that they need. CloudForms, an open source-based hybrid cloud management platform, allows ...
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Windows Azure customers will be able to use Linux-based operating systems, open source tools and languages for the first time now that Microsoft Azure officially supports those offerings. The move to support Linux and open source ...
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Network World - The software as a service market is still in a state of flux and before SaaS can reach its full potential, service providers must overcome integration, customization and brokerage issues. Gartner pegs total worldwide ...
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IDG News Service - Red Hat plans to release an enterprise grade version of the OpenStack open source software for hosting IaaS (infrastructure as a service) deployments. The company has posted an unsupported preview edition of the package, ...
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Infoworld - Hewlett-Packard may be best known for its ubiquitous printers and laptops, but in the enterprise world, it is just as recognized for its servers. Now that the idea of the cloud is taking over, HP is joining the marketplace and ...
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Expanding its portfolio of cloud computing services, Google is launching an IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) package, called Google Compute Engine (GCE). "We've heard from many of our customers that not having an IaaS was a barrier to ...
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Mid-sized companies are increasing their outsourcing at a faster rate than large enterprises, and using a more diverse range of suppliers in doing so. Research of the Forbes G2000 from Information Services Group (ISG) revealed a 124% ...
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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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It's obvious that cloud computing imposes vast change within IT organizations. I've written repeatedly on this topic, addressing issues such as cost allocation, job opportunities, automation requirements, security and the relationship ...
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Concurrency, Inc., the 2012 Microsoft Central Region Partner of the Year, announced today three upcoming educational events for business and IT managers in the Milwaukee, Madison, and Chicago areas. The presentations will cover how cloud ...
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