SAP is set to offer customers the option of running their applications on top of a cloud-based version of its HANA in-memory database technology. The SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service, which was announced Tuesday, will be offered by SAP ...
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Dell, the PC vendor that its founder is bidding to take private, has acquired Enstratius, a maker of enterprise cloud management software that counts Amazon, VMware and Rackspace among its customers. The value of the deal was not disclosed. ...
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Adding to its portfolio of IT management software, Dell has acquired Enstratius (formerly called EnStratus), which offers software for managing workloads in hosted cloud environments. Enstratius' software, which can run on premises or ...
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Organisations need to check their bills closely and look out for hidden charges when deploying their applications in the cloud - and to check, especially, whether their cloud services include or exclude network services before they sign up. ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a global certification programme to allow developers, operational staff and solutions architects to demonstrate their skills by taking examinations in a range of cloud-related subjects. This is ...
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Online retail giant Amazon's shares dropped by 7.2 per cent to $254.81 (£163) on the NASDAQ stock exchange, after the firm forecasted that it could make a significant loss in the second quarter of 2013. Amazon predicted an operating ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its security offerings with hosted intrusion protection appliances and more extensive encryption features, as it seeks to increase the level of protection users can get in its cloud. For ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its security offerings with hosted intrusion protection appliances and more extensive encryption features, as it looks to increase the level of protection users can get in its cloud. For ...
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Making good on a promise made in December, VMware and parent company EMC have launched a new company, called Pivotal, to offer an enterprise-ready data analysis platform as a service (PaaS) based on software from both companies. Pivotal's ...
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Media giant News International is progressively shifting its IT infrastructure from in-house data centres to the cloud, after deciding three years ago to shift from being a newspaper company to a multimedia company. Further reading ...
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Infor's CEO, Charles Phillips, on Monday said that the vendor has no intention of owning its own data centres for cloud services, despite having a desire to offer more cloud-based products in the future. Instead, Phillips said, Infor's ...
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"Amazon Elastic Map Reduce runs like a dog. It's pathetically slow, we've done benchmarks. It's because it's metered; they charge by the minute." Further reading Outage hits Amazon Web Services as Google lies in wait Intel launches own ...
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In an effort to attract a more diverse set of contributors, enterprise software vendor Citrix has donated its open source Xen hypervisor to the Linux Foundation. Citrix announced the donation Monday at the Linux Foundation's Collaboration ...
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HP can stake a bigger claim in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market by creating an enterprise-friendly rival to Amazon's 'consumer' cloud, according to the head of the firm's Converged Cloud unit, Saar Gillai. HP is in the ...
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Just as industry watchers have predicted, the race to the bottom for cloud computing prices continues. On Thursday, while announcing that the beta tag has been removed from the Google Compute Engine (GCE) cloud service, Google also ...
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