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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An unexpected bug cropped up after new hardware was installed in one of Amazon Web Service's Northern Virginia data centers,which caused the more than 12-hour outage last week that brought down popular sites such as Reddit,Imgur,AirBNB and ...
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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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IDG News Service-Analysts have predicted a trend towards moving IT from on-premise to off-premise,new cloud applications and an increase in spending on cloud services next year. IDC head of research Matthew Oostveen said with cloud ...
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Oracle is pushing its combined hardware and software product range as a way for CIOs to avoid costly consultant fees. Speaking in the UK, Oracle president Mark Hurd, said open systems were more costly because they were not ...
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Network World-Midokura,a Japanese startup focused on network virtualization,this week said it is entering the U.S.market with a distributed software defined network product designed for Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS). The companys ...
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Oracle president Mark Hurd has stated that his firm is focusing on the banking sector,which he said has a combination of extremely large IT budgets,and often outmoded systems and applications. "One of the core assets of banks is ...
Mark Hurd has used his keynote at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco today to outline the four main pillars of Oracle's strategy. "First,we want everything to be best of breed at every level of the technollogy stack.We want ...
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Daniel Austin,Paypal's chief architect,has claimed that big data is a scam"most of the time",stating that relational database tools can almost always solve supposed big data problems. Further reading Oracle announces IaaS ...
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HMRC is the first major government department to use the G-Cloud to procure centralised data storage,in a deal with Skyscape. Phil Pavitt,CIO of HMRC(pictured),said:"This change will save over 1m pounds a year in running costs and will ...
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Buckinghamshire County Council has signed a four-year deal with Updata for a public services network (PSN) worth up to £100m. The network is hoped to yield cost savings of up to 30%, according to the council's CIO, Caroline Cooper. ...
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When transitioning workloads to virtual environments, one of the big drawbacks for data center administrators can be a loss of visibility. When a problem occurs, it can be difficult to get a handle on details like which users are affected ...
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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 ...
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Job site RecruitmentGenius.com has cut hosting costs by 90%by moving to cloud infrastructure. RecruitmentGenius.com is saving GBP112,000 a year by moving onto hosting provided by ElasticHosts. RecruitmentGenius.com uses the cloud ...
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Network World-Linux operating system distributor Suse says it is gaining ground among cloud service providers as their choice platform for delivering the open source OS to customers,but at least one analyst says the market is still split ...
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