Tumblr is giving its users more options to share their posts across other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, with a new iOS app released Wednesday. Available for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, the mobile app lets users ...
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Making good on a promise made in December, VMware and parent company EMC have launched a new company, called Pivotal, to offer an enterprise-ready data analysis platform as a service (PaaS) based on software from both companies. Pivotal's ...
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CA Technologies is acquiring Layer 7 Technologies, a purveyor of tools for managing and securing application programming interfaces (APIs). CA plans to integrate Layer 7 products into its own Identity and Access Management suite of ...
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Media giant News International is progressively shifting its IT infrastructure from in-house data centres to the cloud, after deciding three years ago to shift from being a newspaper company to a multimedia company. Further reading ...
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Infor's CEO, Charles Phillips, on Monday said that the vendor has no intention of owning its own data centres for cloud services, despite having a desire to offer more cloud-based products in the future. Instead, Phillips said, Infor's ...
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Director of information services and security at Wolfson Microelectronics, Andrew Ralston, railed against cloud services providers on a panel at the Infosecurity Europe conference today. Further reading Wozniak: Cloud is going to be ...
"Amazon Elastic Map Reduce runs like a dog. It's pathetically slow, we've done benchmarks. It's because it's metered; they charge by the minute." Further reading Outage hits Amazon Web Services as Google lies in wait Intel launches own ...
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Access to several of Google's most popular web services, including Gmail, Drive and the main administrative console, was disrupted for around two hours Wednesday afternoon. The first to go down, according to Google's?Apps Status ...
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In an effort to attract a more diverse set of contributors, enterprise software vendor Citrix has donated its open source Xen hypervisor to the Linux Foundation. Citrix announced the donation Monday at the Linux Foundation's Collaboration ...
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HP can stake a bigger claim in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market by creating an enterprise-friendly rival to Amazon's 'consumer' cloud, according to the head of the firm's Converged Cloud unit, Saar Gillai. HP is in the ...
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Just as industry watchers have predicted, the race to the bottom for cloud computing prices continues. On Thursday, while announcing that the beta tag has been removed from the Google Compute Engine (GCE) cloud service, Google also ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has lowered the cost of running Windows on its cloud, while Google announced a reduction on all Compute Engine pricing. Google has also expanded the number of virtual servers users can choose from and made its ...
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JPEGmini photo optimization technology, capable of reducing image file sizes by up to 5x while retaining their full resolution and quality, is now available on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace. The JPEGmini Photo Server from Beamr allows ...
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Amazon.com has added a file-syncing feature to its online storage product, Cloud Drive, putting the service on par with competitors such as Dropbox and Google's Drive. The syncing feature will allow users to view an up-to-date file across ...
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DDoS attacks like the one that resulted from an altercation between a Dutch company and Spamhaus this week are on the rise, according to a statement from Kaspersky Labs. The security vendor was responding to the huge DDoS attack that ...
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