Global revenue for platform as a service(PaaS)will grow consistently for five years from 2012 to reach$2.9bn in 2016,up from$900m in 2011,according to research firm Gartner. But as the platform-as-a-service delivery model grows,it will ...
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has developed a private cloud to support its application development process, using Amazon best practices. The project has enabled RBS to determine running costs of its IT infrastructure, and provide ...
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An endless stream of tweets and blog posts have noted,described and bewailed last week's Amazon Web Services outage.Some people characterized the outage as an indictment of public cloud computing in general.Others,some of whom work at other ...
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Dutch cloud provider McCloud has chosen Amplidata object storage to support its remote backup services,over clustered NAS products from HP and NetApp. McCloud–which spoke to Computer Weekly at SNW Europe in Frankfurt this ...
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Swedish file sharing website, The Pirate Bay (TPB), has moved into the cloud in order to improve its services, lower costs and evade shut-down from authorities. The BitTorrent site, which had its servers raided by police in 2006, has now ...
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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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Thomas Cook online has signed a seven-figure deal with SME cloud provider CatN to host its e-commerce site. The agreement comes on the back of recent work by CatN,initially brought in by Thomas Cook as a skunkworks operation,which ...
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With downward price pressures, the excess capacity that providers must have on hand for peak traffic becomes a drag on profits. After the cloud gold-rush era is over, providers will need to find ways to turn that cost center into a profit ...
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Cloud provider opts for X-IO hybrid SSD arrays UK remote applications and telecoms provider RTW Hosting has implemented more than £600,000 worth of X-IO Hyper ISE and ISE 2 storage arrays to achieve a 2,471% IOPS performance ...
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SAP's cloud business is growing thanks to the acquisition of online HR software provider SuccessFactors, according to the company's latest financial results. Last December SAP acquired SuccessFactors for $3.4bn, as a key part of SAP's ...
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PC Advisor-Cloud computing is currently one of the most talked about topics for many business,for a large percentage of whom it is the perfect solution.For a startup,low costs and simple entry are appealing features--while large corporates ...
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LONDON --Though vendors would have you believe that cloud computing is now a mainstream technology, enterprise IT shops resist the public cloud due to cloud security concerns, licensing issues, and rising costs. Customers and analysts ...
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