A free service that allows enterprises to track the utilisation rate and costs of public cloud services including Amazon Web Services(AWS),Windows Azure and Rackspace,has been launched by IT management service provider Apptio. The ...
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As with their user forum last year,EMC's Forum Boston 2012 on Friday emphasized cloud infrastructure technology,big data and business intelligence products. This year,however,EMC made it clear to its customers that there should be a sense ...
Tags: IT shops, EMC, cloud infrastructure technology, Gartner
The Large Hadron Collider(LHC),which aims to answer fundamental questions of the universe's existence,is one of CERN's most important projects.But as the LHC produces 1PB of data every second,big data and lack of computing resources were ...
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IDG News Service-Less than a year after a major update to its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization(RHEL)package,Red Hat has upgraded the software to offer more advanced storage capabilities. Released Wednesday,RHEV 3.1 allows administrators ...
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Global manufacturer of medical diagnostic systems Sekisui Diagnostics has opted technologies developed by US-based EMC for setting up a new data center infrastructure. As part of its spinoff from Genzyme, Sekisui preferred EMC VNX ...
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Enterprise users of public cloud welcomed Amazon Web Services' new products and price reductions,but said that additional features such as better security,ease of use and added multiple-availability to overcome outages issues could make ...
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A good IT capacity management policy has "avoided 20 major incidents" at BSkyB in recent months, according to the company's head of capacity, Alan Collier. Further reading Storage capacity slowdown can be buffered by virtualisation, ...
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Google will now be able to assure its customers that their data is hosted in European datacentres after announcing upgrades to its Google Cloud platform. According to the technology giant it is increasing its European datacentre support, ...
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Microsoft has done a lot to boost Hyper-V but the improvements do not justify switching from VMware, according to Gartner. Speaking prior to the analyst's datacentre conference at Westminster, Gartner vice-president and distinguished ...
Tags: Microsoft, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2012, virtual machines, x86 servers
The sales pitch for servers in the cloud has always leaned on the word"commodity."You push a button,and voilA,a root password is yours within minutes.The machines in the cloud may not be exactly what you would order if you were filling out ...
Tags: Joyent Cloud, commodity cloud provider, SmartOS, virtualization tool
Big Switch Networks today unveiled its first software defined networking(SDN)products. Founded in 2010 in Palo Alto,the company has been developing its systems for two and a half years,beta testing them with companies such as Goldman ...
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IDG News Service-In a bid to help large businesses create and manage snapshots of application data across sprawling enterprise environments,CommVault is releasing the snapshot component of its Simpana suite as a standalone product. The ...
Tags: IntelliSnap software, CommVault, Simpana IntelliSnap Recovery Manager
The growing use of virtualisation has really helped many organisations. Not only have the average utilisation rates of servers and storage improved, but the use of applications and other software packaged ready for installation – ...
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Open source services provider Sirius Corporation has provided a combination of OpenSource and proprietary software for Ysgol Maesydderwen school, near Swansea. Funded by Powys County Council, the Welsh school received installation of a ...
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Software defined datacentres, cloud management and automation, virtualisation licensing, mobile virtualisation, heterogeneity and the need for IT executives to develop new skills in the cloud era were some of the themes of the VMworld ...
Tags: VMworld Europe 2012 conference, Software, Cloud, cloud computing