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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The changes Twitter is making to its API policies triggered a wave of protest among its developers, but they might be necessary for the strategy Twitter has laid out for itself to make money and keep growing its service. The stricter ...
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With each year, Oracle becomes a bigger company and in turn, so does its annual OpenWorld conference, which kicks off Sunday in San Francisco. In fact, Oracle's long run of acquisitions, spanning from applications to middleware to ...
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Microsoft's most significant update to Windows Azure takes the cloud platform to a different level. Rather than focus on Windows applications and bridging the gap between in-house and cloud-based IT, Microsoft is now offering Azure as ...
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Hosting giant Rackspace saw profits grow 55% to $48.3m (pound 31m) in the first six months of this year. Total revenue for the first half of the year was $620m, a 30% jump on the first half of 2011. “At the halfway point in the ...
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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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Closely following a similar announcement for its Windows 8 operating system,Microsoft also said it will release to manufacturers(RTM)its next-generation operating system for the server,Windows Server 2012,next month. The company made both ...
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A free service that allows enterprises to track the utilisation rate and costs of public cloud services including Amazon Web Services(AWS),Windows Azure and Rackspace,has been launched by IT management service provider Apptio. The ...
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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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The sales pitch for servers in the cloud has always leaned on the word"commodity."You push a button,and voilA,a root password is yours within minutes.The machines in the cloud may not be exactly what you would order if you were filling out ...
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Enterprises can now run Windows Server 2012 on the Amazon Web Services cloud,and take advantage of improved management features and new versions of IIS and the.Net framework. AWS isn't the only provider whose cloud can run Microsoft's new ...
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Almost 40%of IT workers lose one day or more a week fixing IT problems and attempting to contact suppliers,and poor customer service from IT suppliers is proving costly to UK businesses,according to research by Rackspace. In its first IT ...
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Amazon has introduced the second generation of its EC2 computing on-demand infrastructure as a service cloud service, with higher performance processing designed for larger applications. The Second Generation Standard Instances offer 50% ...
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Cloud computing is moving away from being monolithic,where Amazon Web Services(AWS)was the only major cloud service provider,to a marketplace technology,with several cloud-based service providers,as users'appetite for cloud grows,according ...
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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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