Rail Settlement Plan(RSP),the company that provides IT and retail services to UK rail operators,is upgrading its systems with AWS cloud to provide a next-generation ticket issuing systems as a growing number of commuters adopt the"click and ...
Tags: UK, RSP, AWS, Smart421, rail operators, cloud-based service
SAP customers in the UK and Ireland remain confused about the supplier's latest initiatives,including cloud migration and recent acquisitions. Research by the UK&Ireland SAP User Group,released at its annual conference held in ...
Tags: BI efforts, SAP, cloud migration, supplier
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-Microsoft has started to adopt some key software development practices from Yammer,the ESN(enterprise social networking)vendor it acquired several months ago. Specifically,Microsoft sees great value in the way Yammer ...
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IDG News Service-Hewlett-Packard is incorporating three different components,previously available separately,into its HP Unified Functional Testing(UFT)automated testing application so developers can test all aspects of a multi-tiered ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has developed a private cloud to support its application development process, using Amazon best practices. The project has enabled RBS to determine running costs of its IT infrastructure, and provide ...
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Amazon has introduced the second generation of its EC2 computing on-demand infrastructure as a service cloud service, with higher performance processing designed for larger applications. The Second Generation Standard Instances offer 50% ...
Tags: Larger, Workloads, infrastructure
Oracle has launched a new Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS)offering,a new private cloud product,an updated database and a new iteration of its Exadata server at Oracle World in San Francisco today. Further reading Case Study:Twitter's ...
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Cloud computing is moving away from being monolithic,where Amazon Web Services(AWS)was the only major cloud service provider,to a marketplace technology,with several cloud-based service providers,as users'appetite for cloud grows,according ...
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The government's second G-Cloud framework has gone live,with twice the number of original suppliers. Of the 458 suppliers on the 12-month framework,which allows public sector bodies to buy on demand IT services,three-quarters are small ...
Tags: government, second G-Cloud framework, UK, double number of suppliers
Oracle is pushing its combined hardware and software product range as a way for CIOs to avoid costly consultant fees. Speaking in the UK, Oracle president Mark Hurd, said open systems were more costly because they were not ...
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Windows as a service Citrix helps SMEs cope with proliferation and remote support Citrix's position in an evolving and competitive market Virtual Microsoft Widows: A hostage to fortune? Budgets remain tight at enterprise end of market ...
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Those layoffs happening at Juniper might be to dress the company up for a sale. That's some of the speculation swirling inside the company,fueled by reports that Juniper's hired an investment banker to manage bids from potential ...
Tags: layoff, EMC, ISI Group, Juniper, joint venture, Kevin Johnson
Companies are wasting tens of thousands of pounds–sometimes hundreds of thousands–on purchasing cloud services they either don't need or don't even know they are purchasing. Further reading Google says security is better in ...
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Network World-Midokura,a Japanese startup focused on network virtualization,this week said it is entering the U.S.market with a distributed software defined network product designed for Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS). The companys ...
Tags: Japanese virtualization, network virtualization, IaaS, MidoNet