IBM has struck up a partnership with AT&T to offer secure shared cloud services to customers over private networks rather than the public Internet, the companies announced. The service to be delivered from early next year is targeted at ...
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Judy Klickstein is a cloud believer. As CIO of Cambridge Health Alliance, a midsized healthcare provider just outside of Boston, she's excited about the efficiencies cloud computing can bring to her organization. Outsourcing management of ...
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Microsoft announced today that it will acquire cloud storage vendor StorSimple. The terms of the purchase were not disclosed. The move is designed to advance Microsoft's Cloud OS vision and enable its customers to better leverage hybrid ...
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Oracle announced it is expanding its Oracle Cloud services portfolio, during a talk at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco this week. Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Oracle Product Development, delivered the talk, and ...
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Public cloud updated Sega's courier distribution to testers How a combination of public and private cloud helped Sega Cloud project yielded cost-control benefits for Sega Overcoming interoperability issues in private and public cloud The ...
Defence companies can effectively “put a red line through public cloud offerings” because of the security risks involved, according to a senior IT solutions manager at Swedish military equipment manufacturer Saab. Christer ...
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HP this week will unveil a software-defined networking portfolio that spans infrastructure, control plane operations and applications in an effort to lead the emerging SDN market. HP will roll out its own SDN controller, a separate ...
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Demand for real-time data, including personal health information, is driving the market for wearable, wireless devices that will grow from 14 million items this year to as many as 171 million in 2016. In four years, the market for ...
A lot of CIOs in the Middle East may be talking about cloud, but when it comes to deployment it remains low on the list of priorities. This according to Uwe Neumeier, VP, Global Server Sales, Fujitsu. The rise of cloud technologies has ...
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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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Hiring is flat and Europe's economy continues teetering, but IT spending is beating forecasts, says Gartner. Worldwide IT spending is expected to reach $3.6 trillion this year, a 3% increase over last year, reports Gartner. The report, ...
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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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Microsoft has said it is increasing its investment in China as it looks to take advantage of the growing market. The company will invest in new hires, more research for local requirements, and an expansion to additional cities and ...
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HP today announced it is expanding its Converged Cloud portfolio with joint HP and Microsoft solutions that aim to simplify and enhance every aspect of a client's private cloud journey. The HP and Microsoft Joint Private Cloud initiative ...
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Hitachi is trying to expand beyond storage services to tackle emerging areas like big data and converged IT, according to Hitachi Data Systems CTO, Hu Yoshida. The change reflects a recent change in leadership in the larger company, ...
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