IBM has signed an agreement to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, as it looks to accelerate the build-out of its public cloud infrastructure. The company is also forming a services division to back up the push. The financial details of the ...
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Hitachi said Monday it will officially support Amazon Web Services as part of its cloud solution offerings, a victory for Amazon over rival Microsoft Azure. Amazon and Microsoft have long been locked in competition for the Japanese cloud ...
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The decline in PC spending has hit Dell hard, but the company’s server business is growing, said IDC in its first quarter report on the worldwide server market. Dell’s share of worldwide server revenue reached 18.5 percent ...
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Using a new API announced by Amazon Web Services, developers can use Amazon.com, Facebook, or Google's sign-in systems for their cloud-based apps. Amazon calls the concept web identity federation, and the new AWS Security Token Service ...
Paul Adams, the designer behind the Google+ social networking site, who subsequently moved to Facebook, has quit the company for start-up Intercom. Adams had been central to the original (much criticised) design of Google+ and has spent ...
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Seeing a “404 error” or the Twitter “Fail Whale” can really kill a good online buzz. Those kinds of service outages, though, occur on the Internet on a daily basis, as the latest numbers from Outage Analyzer ...
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VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from other established hybrid cloud offerings. VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service will ...
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Amazon Web Services has finally received certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, which the company said will lower the cost of implementing its cloud services among government organizations and agencies in ...
Amazon has received security clearance from the United States government, a move which will make it easier for federal agencies to use cloud computing services. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is certified to provide cloud services for branches ...
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Amazon is the latest tech firm to have question marks hanging over the extent of its business activities that are carried out in the UK. The e-commerce firm, which also owns TV and film streaming service LoveFilm and cloud platform Amazon ...
ClickSoftware Technologies, a provider of automated mobile workforce management and optimization solutions, has teamed up with NetSuite, a provider of cloud-based financials/ERP software suites, to build the ClickSoftware SuiteApp. Built ...
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HighJump Software, a global provider of supply chain management software, today announced a new partnership with NetSuite, with plans to build HighJump Software SuiteApps using NetSuite’s SuiteCloud Computing Platform. The new ...
Google, attempting to build its reputation as an enterprise and developer-focused cloud computing provider, today said its cloud platform is open for anyone to sign up for, and can be used with a new by-the-minute billing scheme. Google ...
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Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in ...
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A new cloud version of SAP's Afaria mobile device management software offers IT departments a more convenient way of controlling mobile devices. As with its other cloud-based offerings, SAP hopes to attract enterprises to the cloud-based ...
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