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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A string of footballers and other celebrities have been accused of using an extravagant data centre construction scheme in a bid to avoid tax. The data centres, on the Cobalt business park just outside Newcastle, are completely empty two ...
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As the consumerisation of IT takes a tighter grip on IT users' daily lives, and BYOD becomes an increasingly common way to work, the importance placed on developments in the devices market has grown, even in the last six months. Further ...
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Microsoft is set to invest almost $700m (£455m) in a new data centre to support cloud-based services offered by its upcoming Xbox One games console and Office 365. Known as ‘Project Mountain', the data centre will be based in ...
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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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Pub chain Mitchells & Butlers, which is currently two-thirds of the way through a total IT infrastructure revamp, is preparing to put out to tender on a new retail system that will be rolled out to all of its 1,600 outlets in the UK. The ...
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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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McLaren Applied Technologies, part of the same group as the McLaren Formula 1 team, has partnered with data centre provider IO to develop more energy efficient data centres. Data centres are currently thought to consume around two per ...
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They are said to handle various workloads for segments, including entry-level servers, data centre graphics, microservers, workstations, storage and network appliances. Intel has launched the new Xeon processor E3-1200 v3 product family ...
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SunGard Availability Services, a provider of Information Availability services, has signed a five year contract with Serco Group, a British government services company. This new arrangement will see SunGard take responsibility, on behalf ...
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Salesforce.com has purchased cloud marketing platform ExactTarget in a deal worth $2.5bn (£1.6bn) as it looks to adapt to a world in which mobile devices and social networks are increasingly used. The agreement - approved ...
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The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is seeking suppliers for a new IT framework, which it hopes will better support economic, standard and integrated services across the organisation. In an Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) notice, ...
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The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is seeking suppliers for a new IT framework, which it hopes will better support economic, standard and integrated services across the organisation. In an Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) notice, ...
Dimension Data will install data centre architecture and physical infrastructure for London Gateway, the UK's first 21st Century deep-sea port, parent company DP World has announced. With the port due to open later this year, Dimension ...
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Wargaming, the developer of award-winning massively multiplayer online (MMO) game World of Tanks, is set to expand its data centres across Europe. The games developer already uses Equinix data centres in Amsterdam, but looks to prepare ...
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