Global revenue for platform as a service(PaaS)will grow consistently for five years from 2012 to reach$2.9bn in 2016,up from$900m in 2011,according to research firm Gartner. But as the platform-as-a-service delivery model grows,it will ...
E-commerce giant Amazon could venture into the mobile chip arena,as it looks set to acquire the mobile chip arm of semiconductor firm Texas Instruments. Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet,released in the UK this month,is powered by a processor ...
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The government's Pensions Ombudsman has signed a deal for a case management system via the G-Cloud. The cloud case-management system will deliver a central reference point for individual complaints to the government-appointed regulator. ...
Tags: pensions, watchdog signs, G-Cloud deal, Pensions Ombudsman
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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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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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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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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Supercar maker Automobili Lamborghini has migrated its legacy servers onto Amazon Web Services (AWS), halving the running cost. The car company has replaced an outdated website and infrastructure with AWS. The new website was built in ...
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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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Oracle on Thursday reported that net income rose 11 percent to $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. ...
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Network World - If you follow cloud computing, you're no doubt familiar with software as a service, typically associated with Salesforce.com, or infrastructure as a service, which was pioneered by Amazon.com. But how about CaaS, SECaaS, ...
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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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