With 25,000 employees and 751 branches across the US, Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores had its work cut out when it decided to virtualise SAP and migrate from an IBM mainframe onto x86 servers using VMware technologies. During VMworld ...
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Mortise locks have been popular for many years across the world.A mortise lock is more secure than a typical lock because it contains a heavier return spring and a more solid locking mechanism.To provide even more ...
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The number of first-time users of cloud computing services in the UK has increased by 27%from last year,according to research from the Cloud Industry Forum(CIF). But the CIF survey showed that,while the rate of adoption has ...
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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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IDG News Service - Cloud services promise low cost-of-entry and rapid return on investment, but those advantages make it easy to overlook associated investments. To find out the true return on investment of cloud computing enterprises ...
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The lack of established cloud standards and interoperability has made it difficult to move workloads between private clouds and public clouds and some experts say these problems hinder cloud adoption. Without any industry-wide cloud ...
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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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Denise McDonagh, director of the government's G-Cloud programme, talks to Computer Weekly about the implementation challenges of the programme and the routes being taken to break government's dependence on large outsourcers. To describe ...
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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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Daintree Networks, Inc., and Philips announced an agreement to develop advanced lighting controls products for commercial buildings through the use of open standards such as ZigBee®, helping customers to avoid vendor lock-in and ensure ...
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Microsoft has become the first major IT supplier to publish its submission to the government's consultation on the use of open standards. The consultation closed on 4 June, with the Cabinet Office IT team under deputy government CIO Liam ...
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Japanese stocks rose, with the Nikkei 225 (NKY) Stock Average rising the most in two weeks, after a North Korean rocket launch failed and Fast Retailing Co. Forecast record profit. Shares pared gains as slower growth in China tempered ...
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Are yew pining for profits? Spruce up your trading and let the fir fly. The futures industry has always had something of a hate-hate relationship with forest products. Contracts on plywood and oriented strand board have bitten the sawdust ...
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Clamp originally began in 1989 as a twelve-member d¨jinshi circle, but by 1990, the circle had diminished from twelve to seven. Of the remaining seven, Tamayo Akiyama, Sei Nanao, and Leeza Sei left the group during the production ...
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Germany, the world’s biggest solar- panel market, will cut subsidies for photovoltaic power by a record amount next year as the government tries to control the pace of installations and wean the industry off support. Rates under ...
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