Software defined datacentres, cloud management and automation, virtualisation licensing, mobile virtualisation, heterogeneity and the need for IT executives to develop new skills in the cloud era were some of the themes of the VMworld ...
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Frank Modruson joined Accenture in 1987. He worked initially as an analyst on complex IT projects at customers. For the last ten years, he has been Accenture's CIO responsible for the outsourcing giant's own IT operation. Modruson says as ...
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Supercar maker Automobili Lamborghini has migrated its legacy servers onto Amazon Web Services (AWS), halving the running cost. The car company has replaced an outdated website and infrastructure with AWS. The new website was built in ...
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Cloud computing is an opportunity information security professionals should not miss,according to Philippe Courtot,chairman and CEO of security company Qualys. "This is a fantastic and opportunity to sit down with the CIO and the ...
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A new model of security makes sense as nation states, criminals and hacktivists continue to take obscene advantage of the way things are, says Art Coviello, executive chairman of RSA. Falling short of his stirring call to arms to the ...
Microsoft has announced a free tool for organisations to assess their security readiness for cloud computing. A survey commissioned by the company revealed that the top barriers to cloud adoption are concerns about the ability to deal ...
Taipei,Oct.2,2012--Taiwan's three major power supply makers,AcBel Polytech Inc.,Zippy Technology Corp.,and Delta Electronics Inc.,all enjoyed rising revenues in the third quarter,driven mainly by rising cloud computing opportunities in ...
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While upcoming upgrades to the Enterprise and Standard editions of Java are expected to lack some hoped-for improvements,the upgrades still will have a lot to offer,including enhancements for HTML5 and multicore processors,Oracle officials ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has published new guidelines that underline businesses'sole responsibility for the protection of data,even if it has been outsourced to third-party cloud network providers. As more businesses ...
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The European Commission(EC)has said it will work with the US and Japan to prevent data protection regulation from curbing the uptake of cloud computing across the region. According to the EC,up to€45bn could be spent on cloud ...
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The European Commission(EC)has outlined a cloud computing strategy that aims to boost European business and government productivity. The strategy,dubbed Unleashing the potential of cloud computing in Europe,aims to deliver a net gain of ...
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After nine months of deliberations and some changes on Google's side,the Norwegian Data Protection Authority lifted a ban on the use of Google Apps by municipalities. However,the decision does not give city authorities carte blanche to ...
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A majority of IT executives have said that a growing demand for increased network bandwidth is one of the most critical issues facing their datacentres, with more than half looking to deploy 100Gb ethernet by 2016 to improve input/output ...
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Netflix no longer wants to run a data center to support its in-house IT services. Instead, it's shifting internal applications to Amazon's cloud and turning to software-as-a-service providers for other business systems. Mike Kail, vice ...
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Someday, we'll look back at the office furniture we used at the turn of the century and it will seem, well, like furniture we used at the turn of the century — old, obsolete, sepia-toned, and kind of funny. "Can you believe it?" ...
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