EMC today introduced the world’s first software-defined storage platform at its annual flagship event, EMC World 2013 in Las Vegas. EMC ViPR, which will be generally available in the second half of 2013, allows organisations to ...
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Organisations need to check their bills closely and look out for hidden charges when deploying their applications in the cloud - and to check, especially, whether their cloud services include or exclude network services before they sign up. ...
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Salesforce.com, the cloud-based customer relationship management service provider, is to open a new European data centre in the UK to support its fast expansion across the continent. The company claims that sales across Europe are ...
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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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The most technologically advanced data centre in the world Facebook is reportedly planning to build a $1.5bn data centre in Altoona, US, which will be company's fourth company owned data centre. The data centre is said to be the most ...
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Infor on Monday announced Sky Vault, a big data cloud service based on its ION Business Vault suite that utilises Amazon's new Redshift service. Sky Vault will collect XML documents from any enterprise application enabled with ION – ...
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"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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Nine out of 10 companies in the European Union are planning to expand their data centre operations in 2013 or 2014, despite the supposed shift to cloud computing. Some 88 per cent of respondents to a survey by data centre provider Digital ...
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Intel reported a drop in profits and revenue for the first quarter, as the biggest PC market slump in recent memory weighed on its business. Intel reported a profit of $2.05 billion for the quarter ended March 30, down 25 percent from a ...
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Cisco?last week extended its?data centre?product line to support Microsoft's?Windows Server 2012?hypervisor and VM management features to more tightly align the two companies' data centre and cloud architectures for joint customers. The ...
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THE technology employment sector is expected to strengthen in the second quarter, with hiring experts forecasting a turnaround in the market. Hays senior regional director Peter Noblet said "positivity and growth" would return in Q2. ...
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The low-power capabilities of ARM-based processors have created high expectations for their use in servers, but one of Dell's top engineers said they are unlikely to take off until 64-bit versions hit the market. "I don't think you'll see ...
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The acquisition expected to support fibre optics product range for enterprise and data centre applications Chip maker Avago Technologies has agreed to acquire the optical technologies provider, the CyOptics for about $400m. The ...
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The volume of data centre projects continues to rise in the Middle East, but experts believe that the education level of what’s required to run and maintain these centres is fairly low, allowing vendors to take advantage of smaller ...
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Huawei generated $11.8 billion revenue from China alone in 2012, and forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 10 percent for the next five years. The global ICT solutions provider achieved steady business growth according to its audited ...
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