Storage provider WD today unveiled its latest personal cloud device; My Cloud. My Cloud allows users to access any information from anywhere, and contains folder level access for individuals, meaning an administrator can control which ...
Enterprises and service providers are looking beyond collections of boxes and toward virtual data centers that are better at growing and changing, and now application services such as security and acceleration are about to fit into that ...
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The model of buying cloud computing resources is different from that of buying traditional hardware and software. Instead of buying licences and investing in equipment, in a cloud computing model, users pay for the resources they use ...
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Microsoft will offer discounts on its Azure cloud service next month as part of a cloud computing push that also includes new releases of its Windows Server and Systems Center software. Customers on Enterprise Agreement licenses will be ...
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SAP has announced it is will strongly focus on m-Government, cloud, in-memory computing and SMEs at this year’s GITEX Technology Week. In what is its most extensive investment in GITEX Technology Week yet, SAP will also showcase all ...
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Oracle and Microsoft today announced new features of the two companies' cloud collaborations, revealing Oracle Database, Java Platform Standard Edition for provision on Windows Server, as well as Oracle WebLogic onto Windows-based virtual ...
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The question on cloud security and whether it's possible to enjoy greater data centre flexibility and efficiency without compromising on security comes down to whether you're a John Travolta or a Dennis Bergkamp. That's according to ...
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Oracle has kicked off its Oracle OpenWorld 2013 conference in San Francisco by unveiling in-memory processing for its Oracle Database 12c product, as well as new hardware to run it on, and a new cloud-based database backup solution. ...
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Nigel Beighton, VP of technology of hosting company Rackspace, outlined the five areas that firms should focus on in order to get the most out of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Speaking at Structure Europe in London, Beighton said ...
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IT managers at SMEs will be made redundant in the next five years and replaced by a financial director or CIO, according to the MD of data centre provider City Lifeline, Roger Keegan. Keegan told Computing that in-house data centres are ...
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Piers Linney, co-founder and CEO of cloud services and unified communications company Outsourcery, believes that it will take the cloud between five and 10 years to fully mature. In an interview with Computing, the entrepreneur, who has ...
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IBM has been awarded a contract worth up to $1 billion to transform the US Department of the Interior's IT as part of a major cloud computing initiative. The DOI is aiming to move its data and applications into the cloud as part of a ...
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In a bid to plug a "major skills gap" in the datacentre industry, the professional association Data Centre Alliance (DCA) has launched a bootcamp to lure unemployed graduates to work in the industry. The DCA claims that the data centre ...
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Major cloud providers such as Google, Amazon and Facebook will "gobble up" the competion as smaller providers struggle to compete with what the giants have to offer. That's what Josko Grljevic, information systems director for ...
The public cloud services market is predicted to exceed $180 billion by 2015, according to a newly released report by Gartner. The research firm has forecasted continued strong growth in public cloud services and says that end-user ...