Rivals Microsoft and Oracle are to team up on their cloud-based platforms as they face growing competition from new agile internet-based tech firms that sell cheaper services. For years Microsoft and Oracle had been competing for the same ...
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The complexity of existing IT systems is acting as a major barrier to the adoption of cloud, with many CIOs unsure as to how to adapt to the technology, warns a report by ICT services provider NTT Europe. Based on the views of 300 CIOs ...
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As trailed last week,Salesforce.com and Oracle have announced a new cloud deal encompassing applications,platform and infrastructure in a comprehensive nine-year partnership unveiled today. Putting aside their past differences-which ...
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Software giant Oracle and cloud CRM company Salesforce.com will announce a new alliance next week that will see the two companies "unite" their respective clouds. "Larry and I both agree we need to unite our clouds," said Marc Benioff, ...
Google is hoping to appease developers that want better portability for their hosted apps by working with Red Hat on running App Engine in private clouds. The Google Cloud Platform team has been working with Red Hat’s JBoss ...
Tags: Google, Red Hat, Private Clouds, App Engine
Concerns about the global economy and political unrest in Canberra are cruelling appetite for takeovers, with some of the nation's top dealmakers tipping companies to remain on the sidelines until economic clouds clear. In a sign of the ...
Rackspace is now offering hosted versions of the MongoDB data store, using MongoDB management technologies it acquired from its purchase of ObjectRocket in February. It also has contracted with 10gen, the company shepherding the open source ...
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The CIA has selected Amazon over IBM to build a cloud computing service for the spy agency even though IBM's proposal carried a lower price tag, according to a US government report. However the decision is under review after IBM lodged a ...
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UAE telco du has expanded its managed services portfolio by launching the Business Cloud platform, which constitutes a range of cloud-based services through Encloud. du said that the new platform offers? standard cloud building blocks ...
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This year's Serpentine Gallery pavilion has been illuminated by the lighting design team at AECOM using Viabizzuno luminaires. Architect Sou Fujimoto's 'cloud-like' latticed structure of 20mm steel poles occupies some 350 square-metres ...
Cisco has overtaken IBM?as the leading provider of infrastructure for cloud computing, analysts at Synergy Research reported on Monday. Synergy says there was a $9.7 billion market in the first quarter of 2013 for hardware to support ...
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The next summer blockbuster out of 20th Century Fox might be called "The Incredible Shrinking Data Center." The entertainment giant is taking about 9,000 square feet of data center space, spread in three data centers, and shrinking it ...
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Yes, now lightbulbs can glow red when your squeeze arrives The Philips Hue lightbulbs are the Internet of Things made real: multicoloured light bulbs with network connectivity and cloud control, with only the outrageous price preventing ...
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IBM has signed an agreement to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, as it looks to accelerate the build-out of its public cloud infrastructure. The company is also forming a services division to back up the push. The financial details of the ...
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Tumblr is now putting ads in users' feeds on the desktop, in what could be the first move toward making sure the social blogging site is a profitable business for Yahoo. Tumblr started placing ads in users' streams on mobile devices in ...