To simplify life for developers,platform-as-a-service provider Heroku has released a version of the open-source Postgres database designed to be easily run on Apple Macintosh computers. While the Postgres project itself maintains a ...
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Amazon Web Services(AWS)is offering solid-state disks(SSDs)in the cloud to support low-latency applications. The cloud service is providing SSDs capable of delivering in excess of 120,000 read input/output operations per second(IOps)and ...
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Engineering firm Alstom has outsourced its datacentre transformation to systems integrator CSC for an initial five years. CSC will use its private cloud service, BizCloud, and storage as a service infrastructure as part of a server and ...
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SoftCo combines SoftCo Cloud with ABBYY FlexiCapture Data Capture to Enable Providers to offer enterprise data capture and cloud-based document management specifically for Business Process Outsourcing DUBLIN, IRELAND, July 13, 2012 ...
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When the Financial Services Authority(FSA)introduces new rules,companies under its jurisdiction often have to invest in IT to enable them to adhere to the new guidelines. Because data is so important in finance companies,regulations ...
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Some users of new Wi-Fi routers from Cisco's Linksys division complained this week that the company automatically updated the routers' firmware and pushed them toward a cloud-based administration service they didn't want. Users posting on ...
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Businesses across the world will spend $120bn on enterprise application software this year, according to the latest Gartner research. The software most in demand is enterprise resource planning (ERP) with $24.9bn spent on it; office ...
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Microsoft will support Ubuntu and OpenSuse virtual machines on the latest version of its Azure cloud service. In a massive departure from its previous stance,the company appears to be supporting open source tools and the Linux operating ...
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The latest research from analyst Forrester urges CIOs to scrutinise the true cost of cloud computing to avoid costly charges. In Forrester's Make the Cloud Enterprise Ready report, principal analyst James Staten assessed the cost of cloud ...
Otto Japan Inc. has upgraded its email platform by adopting Microsoft Exchange Online from Microsoft Office 365. The fashion retailer, which sells its diverse product line through catalogues, stores and online, wanted to move away from ...
The Autodesk 123D Catch for iPad is a new free app that lets users take images from their iPad camera and upload them to the Autodesk cloud service that transforms the images into a 3D model. Complementing the desktop and newly released ...
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