The physical location of a data centre is crucial to its security, according to John Noakes, director of product marketing & partners for cloud firm Attenda. Noakes was speaking as part of the 'Insights into the data centre of the future' ...
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Oracle this week announced that it is acquiring Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software with the intent of rounding out its software stack for building hybrid clouds. Based in Mountain View, California, ...
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Research in Motion (RIM) has sold its cloud services company NewBay to Synchronoss Technologies at a considerable loss, just a little more than a year after purchasing it. RIM's purchase of Irish software company NewBay for $100m in ...
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It's arguable that two key things have driven developments in storage this year; server/desktop virtualisation and the relentless expansion of data. The first of these has led to real changes, namely the growth of flash in the datacentre. ...
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Holland-based LeaseWeb has opted for storage software from Nexenta on commodity hardware as a platform for its cloud computing platform. The company chose Nexenta over HP, IBM, NetApp and open source storage products for the project, which ...
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