The industry has welcomed the European Commission's (EC's) ambitious cloud computing strategy but insisted more efforts are needed in areas of cloud standardisation, security and data protection if the EC'sforecasts are to be met. The ...
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Cloud computing is going to cause a spate of horrible problems as data owners lose control of their information, according to the co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak. Wozniak, who co-founded the world's most valuable company with the late ...
Tags: Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, cloud outages, Microsoft Azure
When Ken Stephens, a senior vice president of Xerox Cloud Services, tried to hire a product manager from IBM recently, he had quite a shock. "I offered him a 40 percent raise," Stevens said in an interview. "But then IBM came back and gave ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recent storm-related outage, which left Web sites including Netflix, Pinterest, and Instagram inaccessible, is just the latest in a string of costly cloud failures. Since 2007, a total of 568 hours of downtime at ...
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2012 was the year cloud computing hit the mainstream.More users started adopting cloud-based services and vendors intensified competition by launching aggressive price wars for market share. Enterprises and public sector organisations ...
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Following the best marketing practices of traditional IT firms, Google has launched a partner program to help third-party vendors use and sell Google cloud services. The Google Cloud Platform Partner Program will provide "our partners ...
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Amazon Web Services has submitted an entry to the Cloud Security Alliance's Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR), a move that sheds some light into the security features of its IaaS cloud offering. The CSA launched its STAR program ...
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Judy Klickstein is a cloud believer. As CIO of Cambridge Health Alliance, a midsized healthcare provider just outside of Boston, she's excited about the efficiencies cloud computing can bring to her organization. Outsourcing management of ...
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Microsoft announced today that it will acquire cloud storage vendor StorSimple. The terms of the purchase were not disclosed. The move is designed to advance Microsoft's Cloud OS vision and enable its customers to better leverage hybrid ...
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Brocade today announced support for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Server 2012 server operating system across all product lines, including the company’s Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) and Ethernet fabric solutions. ...
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du has entered into an alliance to deliver data centre and interconnection services to customers in the Middle East, it announced today. The alliance, with global interconnection and data centre company Equinix, will establish a ...
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Demand for real-time data, including personal health information, is driving the market for wearable, wireless devices that will grow from 14 million items this year to as many as 171 million in 2016. In four years, the market for ...
About five years ago Genomic Health began to introduce cloud-based business applications. Ken Stineman, senior director of enterprise architecture and security, quickly became aware of the security risks these apps posed. CSO contributor ...
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IT leaders will need to “get real” and stop saying that everything is moving into the cloud during 2013, according to analyst firm Forrester. In a blog entry which counts down the company’s top 10 cloud predictions for ...
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Eyeing greater use of the open source Postgres database in the cloud,hosting provider Open Hosting has launched a service that allows users to run an automated cluster of PostGres databases on the company's own servers. The company has ...
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