Global revenue for platform as a service(PaaS)will grow consistently for five years from 2012 to reach$2.9bn in 2016,up from$900m in 2011,according to research firm Gartner. But as the platform-as-a-service delivery model grows,it will ...
IDG News Service - In a move aimed at strengthening its ability to offer converged systems, Dell has acquired infrastructure automation software provider Gale Technologies. Dell will fold the company's technologies into a newly formed ...
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E-commerce giant Amazon could venture into the mobile chip arena,as it looks set to acquire the mobile chip arm of semiconductor firm Texas Instruments. Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet,released in the UK this month,is powered by a processor ...
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Chairman and CEO, Netgear, talks about market competition and partner strategy in the India market. CW: Over the years, what has redefined the networking market, which was more about switches and routers? Lo: Presently, the network is ...
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IDG News Service - Adobe has shut down Connectusers.com, a community forum site for users of its Adobe Connect Web conferencing platform, because the site's user database was compromised. On Tuesday, a hacker named "ViruS_HimA" claimed ...
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SAP has developed an update for its HANA in-memory database that will enable it to"power mission-critical transactional and analytical applications in one platform,"the vendor announced Wednesday during the Tech Ed and Sapphire conferences ...
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NetApp has claimed sales of its FlexPod integrated storage,server and networking stacks grew nearly 1,000%in a year. In a presentation at the NetApp Insight partner event in Dublin,product solutions and alliances director John Rollason ...
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Icann, the organisation that manages internet protocol numbers and the domain name system root, is hosting its first internet root server system in Scotland in a 100-rack datacentre in Dundee from IT provider brightsolid online technology. ...
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Big Switch Networks today unveiled its first software defined networking(SDN)products. Founded in 2010 in Palo Alto,the company has been developing its systems for two and a half years,beta testing them with companies such as Goldman ...
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TotalRecovery Pro is all you need to completely protect your files and Windows system from virus infections, hard disk failures, and unexpected disasters. IRVINE, CA, November 10, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- FarStone Technology, Inc. ...
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Cray on Friday agreed to acquire server maker Appro International for US$25 million in cash as it looks to strengthen its high-performance computing product portfolio. Cray will integrate Appro's operations into a new Cluster ...
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A judge has ruled that organisations do not have an"enforceable proprietary claim"to the contents of emails held by staff–unless the content of the emails can be considered confidential information belonging to the organisation,the ...
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Enterprise mission-critical applications and workloads are rising, but IT executives are still not confident about running them on public cloud platforms, according to research firm IDC. Mission-critical systems remain at the core of the ...
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The University of Cumbria is looking for a supplier to provide a new managed IT infrastructure service in a six-year deal. In the Official Journal of the European Union tender, the university notes that the contract will be worth between ...
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Verizon announced today it is extending its managed services offering for Microsoft Lync Server to its business customers by adding the ability to operate,monitor and manage unified communications and collaboration(UC&C)servers and ...
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