In a bid to improve data security, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched AWS CloudHSM, which uses a separate appliance to protect cryptographic keys used for encryption. There are already a variety of alternatives for protecting ...
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Yahoo has acquired Summly, a news summarisation app company owned by a 17-year old-student from the UK. The technology summarises news stories by cutting them down into "snapshots", the idea being that mobile users can more easily "skim" ...
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Apple this week followed the lead of rivals like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, offering two-step authentication to help customers secure their Apple IDs against hacking. The new feature is designed to block unauthorised changes to ...
Apple this week followed the lead of rivals like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, offering two-step authentication to help customers secure their Apple IDs against hacking. The new feature is designed to block unauthorized changes to ...
CIOs and IT managers tracking the progress of the SharePoint-Yammer integration got more details about the road map this week, but the updates were a sobering reminder of the long road ahead as Microsoft works to mesh the two products. ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its Elastic Beanstalk to include Node.js, in an effort to make it easier to deploy and manage application development on its cloud. Elastic Beanstalk allows developers to upload an application and ...
VMware is reportedly preparing a public cloud offering that it would run itself, however VMware officials have refused to comment on the rumours – sort of. Late last week, the company’s vCloud Director Twitter account ...
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Systema Software has signed a strategic alliance agreement with Instec, a provider of policy administration services and technology to the commercial property and casualty insurance industry, to offer an integrated insurance platform. ...
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More companies are complaining of unfair competition from Amazon Web Services (AWS), suggesting that Amazon has created AWS-based services similar to their own, pricing them aggressively in a bid to win market share. The claims come less ...
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It’s no secret that SAP’s HANA in-memory database has become the centrepiece of the software vendor’s technology strategy. HANA features heavily in pitches for both high-speed analytics and in support of transactional ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is offering users a monthlong free trial of a set of system analysis tools that the company is developing. The free offer is one of a number of price cuts and expanded services the company has introduced in the ...
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Healthcare technology solutions and consulting services provider CitiusTech has launched a new BI-Clinical Cloud, a flexible, SaaS-based and rules-driven platform, for healthcare business intelligence (BI), and integrated clinical, ...
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Prices are falling and the number of services is increasing as developers in the online underground compete fiercely for criminals looking to purchase botnets and other tools to mount cyber attacks. The trends in the so-called ...
Microsoft has acquired MetricsHub, a startup focused on technology for automating cloud performance management. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Microsoft also announced Monday the immediate availability to Windows ...
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Microsoft has joined the Open Data Center Alliance, a user-led organization that aims to simplify the purchasing of data center and cloud services by promoting interoperability and common standards. The alliance has gathered over 300 ...