IDG News Service-Following a four-month beta period,Rackspace has started offering its hosted servers and databases using the open source OpenStack suite of cloud software. That OpenStack has been pressed into production use just two ...
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Securing Cloud Services:A pragmatic approach to security architecture in the Cloud'written by Lee Newcombe of Capgemini,provides an overview of security architecture processes.This book explains how such processes may be used to derive an ...
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An IDC study has found that businesses using Amazon's cloud services over the past five years have made considerable savings. The Amazon-commissioned survey was based on interviews with 11 large and mid-sized organisations,based in North ...
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Close your eyes and think of the cloud.Odds are Amazon quickly comes to mind--for good reason.By some estimates,Amazon Web Services holds 70 percent of the IaaS(infrastructure as a service)market,providing compute,storage,and networking ...
Tags: IaaS provider, HP, Microsoft, Google, Amazon
The business arm of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Riba Enterprises, has rolled out an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform, which it estimates will save £100,000 over three years. The deal with managed services ...
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Microsoft will support Ubuntu and OpenSuse virtual machines on the latest version of its Azure cloud service. In a massive departure from its previous stance,the company appears to be supporting open source tools and the Linux operating ...
Tags: Microsoft, Ubuntu, Azure cloud service, Eclipse