London-based business process and technology service provider Xchanging is planning to establish new delivery centers at two different locations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. To be opened in the Philippines and China, the centers ...
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Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., currently Taiwan’s No.1 telecom carrier, recently signed an agreement to open a US$100 million joint venture with visual-effects company Rhythm & Hues Studios Inc. (R&H) of the United States to provide ...
The steering board of the new European Cloud Partnership(ECP)has met in Brussels,kicking off the process to build an EU Digital Single Market for cloud computing. The board,which aims to make the most of the public sector's buying power ...
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Cloud computing is moving away from being monolithic,where Amazon Web Services(AWS)was the only major cloud service provider,to a marketplace technology,with several cloud-based service providers,as users'appetite for cloud grows,according ...
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After nine months of deliberations and some changes on Google's side,the Norwegian Data Protection Authority lifted a ban on the use of Google Apps by municipalities. However,the decision does not give city authorities carte blanche to ...
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The number of first-time users of cloud computing services in the UK has increased by 27%from last year,according to research from the Cloud Industry Forum(CIF). But the CIF survey showed that,while the rate of adoption has ...
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Amazon Web Services(AWS)has announced an online marketplace where users of its cloud computing services can sell their reserved server instances to other companies,the company said on Wednesday. Reserved instances allow avid cloud users ...
To benefit from a growing Chinese market, Microsoft on Thursday said it is increasing its investment in the country, with new hires, more research for local requirements, and an expansion to additional cities and provinces to bring cloud ...
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The lack of established cloud standards and interoperability has made it difficult to move workloads between private clouds and public clouds and some experts say these problems hinder cloud adoption. Without any industry-wide cloud ...
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