The global market for green datacentres will grow from $17.1bn (£10bn) in 2012 to $45.4bn (£28bn) by 2016, as rising energy costs, tighter carbon emission regulations and economic pressure force IT executives to make their ...
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The world's first cloud computing solution provider for the fashion industry – WFX is partaking as gold sponsor in Soft-Tex 2012 – the global online trade fair, which showcases the world's widest variety of IT solutions for the ...
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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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Network World - If you follow cloud computing, you're no doubt familiar with software as a service, typically associated with Salesforce.com, or infrastructure as a service, which was pioneered by Amazon.com. But how about CaaS, SECaaS, ...
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Jo Stanford joined the hotel and leisure chain De Vere Group six years ago as IT director. She says the backup challenges she faces in IT at De Vere Group are not specific just to her business. ''The challenge is what data you retain and ...
Organisations are struggling to manage the challenges of the mobile era,with less than a third formally testing their mobile applications,a survey has revealed. Where organisations are conducting mobile Quality Assurance(QA),they are ...
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Computerworld-For more than 50 years,hard disk drives have run on air.That's about to change. Western Digital is preparing to launch a line of hard drives filled with helium gas that is said to drastically reduce internal friction and ...
Microsoft has launched Visual Studio 2012 and .Net Framework 4.5, its integrated development platform for building and managing applications. The company hopes developers will use the latest Visual Studio and .Net platform to build ...
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Zendesk on Wednesday unveiled an extensively reworked version of its online help-desk software, in a bid to shove aside competition from the likes of Salesforce.com's Desk.com and Freshdesk. The "new Zendesk" includes a Facebook-like user ...
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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 ...
Big data and intelligence-driven security are to be the focus of the RSA Conference Europe 2012 in London next month. Three of the keynote sessions are related to these topics and they are represented in just about every time slot of the ...
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Advanced Micro Devices has launched the first new products from its SeaMicro acquisition earlier this year, including a server that can be linked to a massive, 5-petabyte storage cluster for running large-scale big data and cloud computing ...
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Cloud computing,IT consumerisation and the evolving threat landscape are forcing IT departments to rethink security. Analyst Gartner has predicted context-aware security will be the preferred method for IT to evolve enterprise security to ...
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There is zero unemployment in IT security,suggesting a huge shortage of skills in the profession,says Hord Tipton,executive director of professional certification body(ISC)2. But there needs to be a focus on training people to be ...
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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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