Box plans to announce a new application for the Windows Phone OS and a partnership with Qualcomm, moves that it hopes will boost adoption of its cloud storage and file-sharing service on mobile devices. The application for Windows Phone ...
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Business consultancy Deloitte is using cloud-based IT service management (ITSM) from ServiceNow to support 13,000 employees in the UK and Switzerland. ServiceNow is a cloud-based service that automates IT support. Customers pay an annual ...
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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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SkyBiometry will provide software-as-a-service biometric services to bring facial recognition technology to the cloud platform SkyBiometry, a new company providing cloud-based biometric software as a service (SaaS), has been ...
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Surrey County Council has hired BT to bring together at least 20 of its public services onto one network. BT will replace up to 40 separate networks to provide internet, fixed telephony, wide area network (WAN), local area network (LAN) ...
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IDG News Service - IBM has teamed with AT&T to offer secure shared cloud services to customers over private networks rather than the public Internet, the companies said Tuesday. The service to be delivered from early next year is targeted ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two new EC2 instances for applications and analytics workloads, as well as AWS Data Pipeline, a web service that allows enterprises to move data across various systems Launching the new Elastic ...
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Window's cloud service, Azure, suffered an outage on 26 July because of a "safety valve" configuration error, Microsoft has said. The outage, which affected parts of Western Europe for more than two hours, meant that customers experienced ...
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It's obvious that cloud computing imposes vast change within IT organizations. I've written repeatedly on this topic, addressing issues such as cost allocation, job opportunities, automation requirements, security and the relationship ...
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Speaking at Business Cloud Summit 2012, Denise McDonagh, director of the government's G-Cloud programme, called for public sector champions to push forward adoption of the G-Cloud. G-Cloud is in its third year of development. "We have to ...
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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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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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While several of the largest storage vendors, such as EMC, Hewlett-Packard and NetApp, have entered into agreements with server, software and networking vendors to offer bundled products, purpose-built products are just beginning to emerge. ...
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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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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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