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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An official document containing policies and pledges for customers of Oracle’s cloud services reveals that many aspects fall in line with industry standards, while others may prompt cause for worry among customers, according to ...
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Red Hat has announced the availability of the first beta of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation 3.1. Current Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation customers are able to access the beta via the Red Hat Network today. The platform is expected 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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After a number of delays, the beta of the Fedora 18 Linux-based distribution has been released. The beta release date had been extended six times over the past two months, mostly due to an underestimation of the amount of work required to ...
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Oracle has reported that net income rose 11 percent to US$2 billion while revenue fell 2 percent to $8.2 billion in the first quarter ended Aug. 31, with the period marked by some strength in software but falling hardware revenues. New ...
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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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Google is expanding its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing platform into Europe and cutting the price of its cloud-based storage by 20%. From December 1 2012 the price for up to 1TB of storage will be reduced by $0.025 per ...
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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PeakColo,a leading provider of enterprise-class Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS)with its WhiteCloud Services and technology solutions,announced today a strategic partnership to further its presence in North America by locating its newest ...
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Microsoft is set to slash Windows Azure Storage prices by 28% from 12 December 2012. The news comes just days after Google cut its cloud-based storage prices by 20% and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a 25% price reduction for Amazon ...
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The Large Hadron Collider(LHC),which aims to answer fundamental questions of the universe's existence,is one of CERN's most important projects.But as the LHC produces 1PB of data every second,big data and lack of computing resources were ...
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IDG News Service-Less than a year after a major update to its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization(RHEL)package,Red Hat has upgraded the software to offer more advanced storage capabilities. Released Wednesday,RHEV 3.1 allows administrators ...
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Microsoft has done a lot to boost Hyper-V but the improvements do not justify switching from VMware, according to Gartner. Speaking prior to the analyst's datacentre conference at Westminster, Gartner vice-president and distinguished ...
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The number of global IT services deals with a cloud computing element have tripled since 2010,according to research from IT outsourcing consultancy Information Services Group(ISG). ISG used its TPI index to analyse IT outsourcing deals ...
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