Micron will soon buy Elpida for 200bn yen (about $2.5bn), of which 140bn yen will be used to pay off debts, says DRAMeXchange. As the Japanese memory maker currently owes 420bn yen, lenders will have to write off approximately 70% of the ...
Cloud computing will move supercomputers out of the research labs and into c, it was claimed this week. Dial-up supercomputing services are making it possible for smaller companies to analyse vast quantities of data, run engineering ...
The sixth and latest version of OpenStack software, code named Folsom is generally available today with new support for next-generation software-defined networking (SDN) baked in as a core component. OpenStack backers say Folsom continues ...
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Today, Concurrency, Inc. announced it has been named to Microsoft's elite Azure Circle, a group of specialized Microsoft partner organizations that provide deployment planning services for organizations migrating to the public cloud. ...
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Businesses have been urged to prepare for the arrival of HTML5 – the technology that underpins the next generation of the web. Organisations should start evaluating HTML5 now and assess its effect on customers' web browsing ...
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As business opportunities in China have become increasingly relevant to today's global economy, the 7th China Software & Sourcing Summit offers participants a prime opportunity for access and insight into the dynamic workings of the Chinese ...
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Oracle's emphasis on cloud computing isn't going to wane anytime soon. To the contrary, on Thursday the vendor held the first in nearly 100 Cloud Builder Summit events scheduled for locations across the globe between now and December. ...
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Cloud acquisitions paying off for Ellison Software and cloud revenue gave Oracle's financial figures a boost, but hardware sales continued to decline. For the second quarter of fiscal 2013 Oracle recorded revenue of $9.1bn, an increase ...
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China and the US are the two countries most likely to come up with “disruptive technology breakthroughs” in the next two to four years, according to KPMG’s global Tech Innovation Survey 2012. Nearly one third of ...
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Cloud computing is all about cutting costs, but some organisations that are going down that road are reporting increased cost instead. How is this possible? According to Marc Noble, director of government affairs for (ISC)2, he knows of ...
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BURGAS, BULGARIA, September 07, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- StivaSoft Ltd announced today the development of an exciting new concept in web professional work-bartering. Webmasters, designers, SEO experts, content writers and freelancers will ...
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CIOs across Europe are predicting their IT budgets will increase by an average of 2% in 2013, despite the downturn. But investment on capital projects will slow, as operational spending assumes higher proportion of the IT budget, research ...
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The University of Warwick has entered an agreement with information security professional body (ISC)2 to support the entry of its cyber security masters graduates into the workforce. Students will be able to complete a compact Certified ...
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Threat data Future of hardware-assisted security Why Intel bought McAfee Defence in isolation and containment Social media, cloud, big data and mobile apps Video: McAfee co-president Michael DeCesare on consumerisation and security The ...
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The industry has welcomed the European Commission's (EC's) ambitious cloud computing strategy but insisted more efforts are needed in areas of cloud standardisation, security and data protection if the EC'sforecasts are to be met. The ...
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