Amazon Web Services has expanded its free service tier to include its Relational Database Service(RDS),the company said on Tuesday. The free tier was put in place to lower the bar for testing Amazon's cloud-based services. The latest ...
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Rolls-Royce has awarded a five-year contract to HP to host its applications,as part of the company's multi-vendor IT strategy. The news follows HP's loss of its large 12-year outsourcing deal with Rolls-Royce in March,with Capgemini named ...
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Microsoft will debut a major redesign of its MSN consumer web portal with a new layout and navigation scheme optimized for the upcoming Windows 8 operating system. The redesigned MSN will go live on October 26,the same day that the ...
Social networking site Twitter told delegates at Oracle's MySQL Connect event in San Francisco today that it uses MySQL because it understands the system,and it's capable of processing the high frequency of queries it receives. Further ...
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UK-Nick Gray,from London based visual design practice Renegade created a stunning 50m long video sculpture for the entranceway of the 2012 100%Design exhibition at Earls Court. The innovative work,which resembled an intricate DNA ...
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The Quartier des Spectacles is a roughly 1 square kilometer area downtown of Montreal. This area of the city had historically been filled with theatres and cabarets, but in the last 40 years, it had fallen into blight and become an ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has published new guidelines that underline businesses'sole responsibility for the protection of data,even if it has been outsourced to third-party cloud network providers. As more businesses ...
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BT has unveiled an updated portfolio for BT One which includes Microsoft Lync and mobile applications. BT has added cloud services and high-definition video end points to its unified communications(UC)BT One portfolio. The ...
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A majority of IT executives have said that a growing demand for increased network bandwidth is one of the most critical issues facing their datacentres, with more than half looking to deploy 100Gb ethernet by 2016 to improve input/output ...
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Many signs suggest that Oracle is about to introduce a next-generation version of the Exadata database machine,the first and apparently most successful of its"engineered systems"that combine Oracle software with servers,networking and ...
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New and improved archiving capabilities in Exchange 2013 make it easier for IT administrators to store and manage messages,and improve accessibility for end users,Microsoft said Tuesday at its Exchange Conference in Orlando. The new ...
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UK domain registrar 123-reg is helping website owners to protect themselves and their visitors with a new tool that identifies and helps remove malicious code from legitimate websites. According to the latest Anti-Phishing Working Group ...
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Equinix,the provider of network-neutral datacentres,is adding 4,000 square metres of datacentre space with an additional capacity for 1,400 cabinets at its London Slough LD5 International Business Exchange(IBX)datacentre. Equinix will ...
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Facebook engineer Sean Lynch has developed a monitoring tool that uses heatmapping to gather data to spot problems and patterns in its IT infrastructure. Lynch revealed the datacentre heatmapping tool on his blog. Lynch and other ...
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Someday, we'll look back at the office furniture we used at the turn of the century and it will seem, well, like furniture we used at the turn of the century — old, obsolete, sepia-toned, and kind of funny. "Can you believe it?" ...
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