Businesses have a unique opportunity steal a march on competitors by introducing genuinely innovative mobile phone applications, analyst group Gartner claimed today. But if they are to succeed in exploiting the next generation of mobile ...
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IDG News Service-Following a four-month beta period,Rackspace has started offering its hosted servers and databases using the open source OpenStack suite of cloud software. That OpenStack has been pressed into production use just two ...
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Rackspace is formally launching its OpenStack open-source infrastructure-as-a-service platform in the UK in mid-August. Further reading IT skills gap has led to a'talent war',says Rackspace CEO Rackspace CTO:Oracle and SAP are starting ...
Tags: Rackspace pencils, UK, OpenStack, infrastructure-as-a-service platform
IDG News Service-The health care industry's increased use of electronic medical records(EMRs),wireless medical devices and personal mobile technology has turned hospital networks into important components in patient treatment.Practicing ...
Huddle co-founder and CEO Alastair Mitchell talks about the simplicity of cloud-based collaboration, the technology that came before, and resurrecting dead content. The application service provider (ASP) model was a buzz in the dot com ...
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WASHINGTON -- The United States has been shipping application development work offshore for years, but cloud computing may help make this country a provider of data center services to enterprises in other countries. Consider the situation ...
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A strong network may be the main stay of cloud computing,but its complexity has left it out in the cold when it comes to development. This was the belief of Nick Watson,vice-president of networking in EMEA for HP,who said that,while ...
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Outsourcing giant Capgemini announced flat profits of €237m (£153m) for the first half of 2012, with like-for-like sales up 2.3% to €5.15bn compared with the same period in 2011. In its report, the company said that ...
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Securing Cloud Services:A pragmatic approach to security architecture in the Cloud'written by Lee Newcombe of Capgemini,provides an overview of security architecture processes.This book explains how such processes may be used to derive an ...
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An IDC study has found that businesses using Amazon's cloud services over the past five years have made considerable savings. The Amazon-commissioned survey was based on interviews with 11 large and mid-sized organisations,based in North ...
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Optical communications and laser component,module and subsystem makers Oclaro Inc of San Jose,CA,USA and Opnext Inc of Fremont,CA,USA have announced shareholder approval of their merger(announced in late March).Opnext shareholders will ...
In a special series,Fairfax Business Media Asia will be previewing speakers from the CIO Summit 2012. The debate on cloud computing should not be about private or public clouds but on the data centre,according to Raju Chellam,cloud ...
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Close your eyes and think of the cloud.Odds are Amazon quickly comes to mind--for good reason.By some estimates,Amazon Web Services holds 70 percent of the IaaS(infrastructure as a service)market,providing compute,storage,and networking ...
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Japanese technology firm Fujitsu is set to launch a new cloud-based platform,which can help farmers to keep track of crop yields and growth data,and make informed decisions. The new service known as'Akisai',uses a network and sensors in ...
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Cisco has bought security start-up Virtuata for an undisclosed sum to boost its cloud computing offerings. The Californian firm focuses on security for virtual machines,either within datacentres or as part of a cloud deployment. It ...
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