Selecting cloud service providers could become easier, thanks to changes made today to the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) code of practice. In 2010, CIF published a the code to promote the adoption of cloud-based services. It previously ...
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Enterprise software rivals Red Hat and Oracle, along with a number of other software and online services providers, have collaborated on a standard that they hope will ease the use of PaaS (platform as a service) among customers, an Oracle ...
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Since the mid 2000s one of the prevailing trends in the IT world has been to move networks,data,operating systems and servers into an environment where they are not tied to a specific piece of hardware. In the early days the emphasis was ...
Tags: Virtualisation, cloud computing, networks, Cloudstore, BCS
The European Commission has announced a new strategy to speed up and increase the use of cloud computing, with the aim of creating 2.5 million new jobs and boosting GDP by €160 billion (£127bn) by 2020. The EC states that ...
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With SaaS (software-as-a-service) having become a preferred deployment model for new software purchases, customers should be entitled to a clear-cut set of rights and expectations from vendors, a new report from analyst firm Constellation ...
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The key concern for SMBs when it comes to the cloud seems to be a lack of related knowledge. This is according to a recent MYOB national study, titled MYOB Business Monitor, which found it to be a key barrier to cloud usage for almost ...
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Some cloud providers fail to detect and block malicious traffic originating from their networks, which provides cyber criminals with an opportunity to launch attacks in a botnet-like fashion, according to a report from security consultancy ...
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Just over half of IT professionals who focus on cloud computing do not trust cloud services for any of their personal data,a survey has revealed. Some 86%of those polled by Lieberman Software said they do not trust the cloud for their ...
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IDG News Service-Companies worried about their bills for cloud services have a new--and free--option:Apptio's Cloud Express,which can track usage and costs for cloud services from Amazon Web Services,Microsoft and Rackspace. IT ...
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SAP customers in the UK and Ireland remain confused about the supplier's latest initiatives,including cloud migration and recent acquisitions. Research by the UK&Ireland SAP User Group,released at its annual conference held in ...
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The chairman of the U.S.Senate Judiciary Committee has not reversed course on email privacy and has not proposed to give U.S.agencies access to email and other electronic communications without search warrants,despite a news report to the ...
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Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)is preparing to cut up to 30 per cent of its workforce. The struggling firm is expected to announce between 2,200 and 3,300 of its 11,100 staff could go after lower than expected sales and ...
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Just two weeks after revealing its plans for adopting ARM for low-power server technology,chip designer AMD has put itself up for sale–with a slew of industry companies,including Intel,Google,Samsung and Facebook–mentioned as ...
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Many UK organisations are still failing to understand the implications of data breaches and estimate the costs of recovery accurately,a study has revealed. Of the UK companies that have not yet suffered a breach,58%told the Ponemon ...
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With SaaS(software as a service)having become a preferred deployment model for new software purchases,customers should be entitled to a clear-cut set of rights and expectations from vendors,a new report from analyst firm Constellation ...
Tags: SaaS, Constellation Research, software