Open cloud provider Rackspace has launched Cloud Block Storage product to help OpenStack cloud users overcome storage-related challenges amid explosion of corporate data. The product will be powered by OpenStack platform and aims to ...
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When Ken Stephens, a senior vice president of Xerox Cloud Services, tried to hire a product manager from IBM recently, he had quite a shock. "I offered him a 40 percent raise," Stevens said in an interview. "But then IBM came back and gave ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made it possible to connect to its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service using static routing, while also allowing enterprises to run SQL Server within the private cloud, the company said on Thursday. Using a ...
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Amazon Web Services has announced four new features for Amazon RDS for Oracle, including the ability to run the database in a private cloud, the company said on Thursday. Enterprises can now launch RDS (Relational Database Service) ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) recent storm-related outage, which left Web sites including Netflix, Pinterest, and Instagram inaccessible, is just the latest in a string of costly cloud failures. Since 2007, a total of 568 hours of downtime at ...
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Users of Microsoft’s cloud-based Azure compute platform have been affected by an availability issue. The service was down for 2.5 hours. Microsoft said: "The recent Windows Azure service interruption in the Western Europe ...
2012 was the year cloud computing hit the mainstream.More users started adopting cloud-based services and vendors intensified competition by launching aggressive price wars for market share. Enterprises and public sector organisations ...
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The National Retail Federation is pleased to announce that Amazon,Crocs,Kohl's and lululemon are the recipients of its prestigious annual awards.The award winners are selected each year by select members of the NRF Board who comprise its ...
Recently selected as the top 10 start-ups at Asian technology summit, Echelon '12, Dropmyemail is an award-winning cloud email backup and migration solution. After a few whirlwind months since the launch of Dropmyemail at DEMO Asia '12, the ...
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Amazon Web Services has submitted an entry to the Cloud Security Alliance's Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR), a move that sheds some light into the security features of its IaaS cloud offering. The CSA launched its STAR program ...
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Amazon has introduced a computer cluster at its facility in Ireland to support European high-performance computing applications in the Amazon cloud. The Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large (cc2.8xl) instance includes a pair of Intel Xeon ...
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Oracle is planning to broaden the footprint of its cloud software portfolio with seven new services covering developer team services, analytics, collaboration and other areas, Executive Vice President of Product Development Thomas Kurian ...
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SAP has made its HANA in-memory database available on Amazon Web Services at an hourly rate, giving customers and partners a new way to try out the platform quickly without investing in hardware and perpetual software licenses, the company ...
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Microsoft announced today that it will acquire cloud storage vendor StorSimple. The terms of the purchase were not disclosed. The move is designed to advance Microsoft's Cloud OS vision and enable its customers to better leverage hybrid ...
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SAP laid out broad details of a new cloud-based application development platform powered by the HANA in-memory database during the Tech Ed conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday. One component of the strategy, NetWeaver Cloud, is generally ...
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