Sales of cloud services will exceed $100bn globally this year after a 19% increase over the past 12 months. According to Gartner, sales of business processes as a service (BPaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS), which includes ...
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Cloud computing is a potential game-changer for SMEs, according to IT consortium, the Open Group. But most SMEs find the technology confusing and are unsure how to implement it, said the group of suppliers, users and academics. ...
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IDG News Service-Companies are not only buying into SaaS(software as a service)more than ever,they are also ripping out legacy on-premises applications and replacing them with SaaS,according to analyst firm Gartner. "In the past 12 ...
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Global revenue for platform as a service(PaaS)will grow consistently for five years from 2012 to reach$2.9bn in 2016,up from$900m in 2011,according to research firm Gartner. But as the platform-as-a-service delivery model grows,it will ...
IDG News Service-Oracle has taken a minority stake in Engine Yard,maker of a PaaS(platform as a service)for Ruby,PHP and Node.js applications,the company announced Tuesday.Financial terms were not disclosed. Oracle and Engine Yard"are ...
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ROAM Inc., the leading mCommerce Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, announced that TaylorMade-adidas Golf Company is the first retail customer to integrate ROAM's software developer's kit (SDK) in its TaylorMade Performance Labs (TMPL). ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has developed a private cloud to support its application development process, using Amazon best practices. The project has enabled RBS to determine running costs of its IT infrastructure, and provide ...
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Oracle has launched a new Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS)offering,a new private cloud product,an updated database and a new iteration of its Exadata server at Oracle World in San Francisco today. Further reading Case Study:Twitter's ...
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In large technology departments,dysfunctional relationships breed like mushrooms in a dank basement.Your dev and ops teams are no longer on speaking terms,while your junior and senior developers can't seem to agree on anything.IT and legal ...
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IDG News Service-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 ...
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Smarter Agent recently unveiled its newly-developed sign up page for real estate agents and brokers. CAMDEN, NJ, August 29, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Smarter Agent recently unveiled its newly-developed sign up page for real estate agents ...
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Many businesses are still reluctant to move sensitive data into an outsourced datacentre,according to analyst Gartner. The findings,based on Gartner's latest annual survey of the state of risk management programmes globally,show that many ...
Tags: Gartner, keep data in-house, risk management programmes, cloud computing
Securing Cloud Services:A pragmatic approach to security architecture in the Cloud'written by Lee Newcombe of Capgemini,provides an overview of security architecture processes.This book explains how such processes may be used to derive an ...
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Close your eyes and think of the cloud.Odds are Amazon quickly comes to mind--for good reason.By some estimates,Amazon Web Services holds 70 percent of the IaaS(infrastructure as a service)market,providing compute,storage,and networking ...
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