The European Commission (EC) is considering making it mandatory for companies to report cyber attacks to harness the benefits of open dialogue, says vice-president Neelie Kroes. Despite industry opposition, open discussion about cyber ...
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Polycom today announced a partnership with IBM research to work together on developing video services using cloud computing. The company already has its own video platform called Polycom RealPresence, but wants to find ways of deploying ...
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Global datacentre traffic will grow four times by 2016 to reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually, Cisco Systems' Global Cloud Index has forecast. Cisco Systems' Global Cloud Index also predicted that cloud traffic – a major ...
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Cloud computing is going to cause a spate of horrible problems as data owners lose control of their information, according to the co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak. Wozniak, who co-founded the world's most valuable company with the late ...
Tags: Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, cloud outages, Microsoft Azure
IDG News Service - IBM has teamed with AT&T to offer secure shared cloud services to customers over private networks rather than the public Internet, the companies said Tuesday. The service to be delivered from early next year is targeted ...
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Customers of AWS public cloud are reaping the benefits of cost savings, elasticity and scalability, but many are still wary of putting sensitive applications in the cloud, despite having a "cloud-first" and "cloud-ready" strategy. At an ...
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If attackers want to get in to an organisation's information systems, they will, says Frank Coggrave, general manager for Europe at e-discovery firm Guidance Software. "Many IT departments still have their heads in the sand on this issue. ...
Tags: information systems, IT departments, security investments, Software
Avago Technologies has announced its new active optical cable (AOC) family, high-density SFP+ QSFP+ and CXP solutions for high-performance computing (HPC) and data-center applications. The firm says that the active optical cable assemblies ...
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Window's cloud service, Azure, suffered an outage on 26 July because of a "safety valve" configuration error, Microsoft has said. The outage, which affected parts of Western Europe for more than two hours, meant that customers experienced ...
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StarWind nominated in the SVC Awards 2012 for achievements in storage, virtualization, and cloud computing BURLINGTON, MA, September 28, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- StarWind Software Inc., an innovative provider of storage virtualization ...
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Cisco has acquired vCider, a provider of virtual network overlay technology to support its Open Network Environment (ONE) strategy. VCider will become part of the company’s cloud computing division and support Cisco’s role in ...
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The VMworld Europe 2012 winners are: Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: Tiger Wheel & Tyre Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: The National Trust Best virtualisation for disaster recovery project: ...
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There's little doubt that multi-sourcing enterprise IT services. The average U.S. IT shop is working with 13.5 service providers overall, according to Gartner. But managing multiple providers remains a challenge for most IT organizations. ...
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Enabling Platform Independent Virtual Desktop and Application Delivery to mobile or desktop devices now available with the Intel AppUp SMB Service DALLAS, TX, October 17, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- 2X Software, a global leader in ...
Tags: Intel, SMB, Hybrid Cloud, Virtual Desktop, Application Delivery
SAN RAMON, CA, October 26, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Ventana Research has announced the results of the first ever Technology Innovation Awards. The awards are a new addition for 2012 and recognize technology vendors who have introduced ...
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