Oracle will announce a new IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) offering at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison said. The service will provide customers with access to secure, virtualised compute ...
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The PaaS (platform as a service) market will grow to US$1.2 billion this year, up from last year’s $900 million take, as vendors and customers seek easier ways to create new applications and customise existing ones, according to ...
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About five years ago Genomic Health began to introduce cloud-based business applications. Ken Stineman, senior director of enterprise architecture and security, quickly became aware of the security risks these apps posed. CSO contributor ...
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Boundary is trying to reach more customers for its application performance monitoring service with a free version that has all the same features as the existing offering. The service has also been upgraded to simplify problem diagnosis, the ...
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Last year the company announced an initial version of OpenShift, an application development tool optimised to run in the cloud, marking the company’s foray into the PaaS market. Today, after running it in beta for 18 months, Red Hat ...
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With each year, Oracle becomes a bigger company and in turn, so does its annual OpenWorld conference, which kicks off Sunday in San Francisco. In fact, Oracle's long run of acquisitions, spanning from applications to middleware to ...
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Amazon.com made a net loss in the third quarter, its first loss in nine years, even as revenue increased by 27 percent year on year. The US$274 million third-quarter loss compared with a net profit of $63 million a year earlier. Net sales ...
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Adding to an already considerable set of cloud IT offerings, Amazon has introduced a hosted data warehouse service called Redshift, pitching it as a lower-cost alternative to on-premise data warehouse deployments. “Anyone who has ...
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IT leaders will need to “get real” and stop saying that everything is moving into the cloud during 2013, according to analyst firm Forrester. In a blog entry which counts down the company’s top 10 cloud predictions for ...
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Eyeing greater use of the open source Postgres database in the cloud,hosting provider Open Hosting has launched a service that allows users to run an automated cluster of PostGres databases on the company's own servers. The company has ...
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Microsoft's most significant update to Windows Azure takes the cloud platform to a different level. Rather than focus on Windows applications and bridging the gap between in-house and cloud-based IT, Microsoft is now offering Azure as ...
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Nicira, the software-defined networking (SDN) startup that VMware purchased for $1.2 billion earlier this year, plans to release an SDN product that runs independent of the underlying hypervisor and hardware that will work in VMware ...
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SAP has certified Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run its business intelligence (BI) applications on the AWS cloud, enabling enterprises to gain more agility and infrastructure cost savings, as well as to standardise their use of public cloud. ...
Google’s Cloud SQL database has gained more storage, faster reads and writes, and now offers users the choice of running their instances in data centres based in either the U.S. or Europe. The performance upgrade allows enterprises ...
Somewhat undercutting a budding ecosystem of vendors that provide similar services, Amazon Web Services today announced increased features for customers to track their usage of AWS public cloud resources. Detailed billing features include ...
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