IDG News Service - Oracle is planning to roll out a new IaaS (infrastructure as a service) offering that will compete directly with Amazon Web Services, along with a service called Oracle Public Cloud that runs inside customers' facilities, ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made a vigorous sales pitch on Tuesday for his company's next-generation Fusion Applications and underlying technology platform, saying they constitute a more modern approach to cloud-based ...
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Demand for real-time data, including personal health information, will drive the market for wearable wireless devices to grow from 14 million items this year to as many as 171 million in 2016. In four years, the market for these devices ...
Rackspace was one of the first players in the cloud arena. The company recognized early that enterprises wanted faster, simpler ways to spin up and spin down servers. If the bosses are going to be fickle and impulsive, there will always be ...
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BP is putting its global messaging infrastructure into a private cloud to benefit from pay-per-use functionality and the flexibility to easily scale up and down the number of users. Over 83,000 staff at BP will be connected to the cloud. ...
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Cloud computing services must become more federated and automated to help enterprise IT use them to deliver more for less,according to Intel. "At a time when IT budgets are tight and when the IT teams are expected to deliver more for ...
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Hosted virtual desktop provider releases whitepaper on recent data center expansion. CyberlinkASP, the leader in hosted virtual desktops and private cloud solutions, today announced that it has released a Case Study on its recent ...
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Green House Data's Cloud Service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered Status giving their customers enhanced responsiveness and agility while also reducing IT costs through increased consolidation, task automation and simplified management. ...
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A good IT capacity management policy has"avoided 20 major incidents"at BSkyB in recent months,according to the company's head of capacity,Alan Collier. Further reading Storage capacity slowdown can be buffered by virtualisation,says ...
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Amazon Web Services, the biggest public cloud service provider, has hit out at private cloud providers, claiming private cloud users are not achieving all the benefits of cloud computing at its first user conference AWS re: Invent. Andy ...
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Chief information security officers (CISOs) have an important role in moving their organisations, whether they are public or private, to a cloud computing environment, according to professional certification body (ISC)2. The move is ...
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Almost three quarters of retail banks are increasing how much they spend on innovation as they attempt to better engage customers through mobile and online channels. According to a study of 300 banks in 66 countries, carried out by IT ...
Citrix is focused on helping enterprises deal with the challenge of running desktops and applications in a new mobile-centric world where tablets and smartphones proliferate. "The technologies that we have, including application and ...
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Every August, swathes of tourists head north of the border to check out the sights and sounds of Edinburgh, with some claiming the population of the Scottish capital doubles for the month. Visitors see numerous cultural activities taking ...
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Hewlett-Packard has reported an $8.9bn loss in its third fiscal quarter, with earnings 568% down compared with the same period the year before. Hewlett-Packard (HP) was forced to write down the value of some assets, mostly related to its ...
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