Storing information in the public cloud from a growing market of vendors is a viable alternative to on-premise, traditional storage options for some use cases, research firm Gartner says. But cloud-based storage providers vary widely in ...
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Brocade has announced its acquisition of Vyatta, a privately held maker of open source-based network software, for an undisclosed amount of cash. Vyatta develops an open source network operating system that is relevant for multiple ...
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CIO - There's no question, we're at an inflection point in the digitization of our world. In every domain and dimension, the substitution of digital for analog is racing ahead. A couple recent examples illustrate the power of this trend. ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle is planning to roll out a new IaaS (infrastructure as a service) offering that will compete directly with Amazon Web Services, along with a service called Oracle Public Cloud that runs inside customers' facilities, ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made a vigorous sales pitch on Tuesday for his company's next-generation Fusion Applications and underlying technology platform, saying they constitute a more modern approach to cloud-based ...
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Rackspace was one of the first players in the cloud arena. The company recognized early that enterprises wanted faster, simpler ways to spin up and spin down servers. If the bosses are going to be fickle and impulsive, there will always be ...
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Cloud computing services must become more federated and automated to help enterprise IT use them to deliver more for less,according to Intel. "At a time when IT budgets are tight and when the IT teams are expected to deliver more for ...
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Verizon's Enterprise Solutions group today unveiled a cloud services portfolio for the healthcare industry that it said can meet federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements for safeguarding electronic ...
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Green House Data's Cloud Service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered Status giving their customers enhanced responsiveness and agility while also reducing IT costs through increased consolidation, task automation and simplified management. ...
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SAP Business Suite customers can now run the software in production form on Amazon Web Services, the companies announced this week during the Sapphire and Tech Ed conferences in Madrid. Certified modules include ERP (enterprise resource ...
A good IT capacity management policy has"avoided 20 major incidents"at BSkyB in recent months,according to the company's head of capacity,Alan Collier. Further reading Storage capacity slowdown can be buffered by virtualisation,says ...
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Amazon Web Services, the biggest public cloud service provider, has hit out at private cloud providers, claiming private cloud users are not achieving all the benefits of cloud computing at its first user conference AWS re: Invent. Andy ...
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The suspension of bidding for the Thameslink rail franchise acted as a proof of concept for operator Go-Ahead's decision to move to a cloud-based collaboration platform. The incompetent handling of the bidding for the West Coast rail ...
Analyst firm IHS published an important study last week. It predicts that, for the first time ever, PC shipments would drop year-over-year; for 2012, total shipments will drop 1.2 percent. IDC and Gartner agree, noting that third quarter PC ...
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Cloud computing is an increasingly significant segment of the IT outsourcing sector, but has a tipping point really been reached or are we one large data breach away from an about-turn? The cloud currently represents only a fraction of ...
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