IDG News Service-Salesforce.com has grown into a company much broader in scope than its name would suggest,having moved well beyond its roots in on-demand CRM(customer relationship management)software. During next week's Dreamforce ...
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Change in approach to the network Ethernet fabrics Software-defined networking Combining Ethernet fabrics and SDN to cut complexity In an age of innovation in the technology industry,we are blessed with new infrastructure on what feels ...
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With downward price pressures, the excess capacity that providers must have on hand for peak traffic becomes a drag on profits. After the cloud gold-rush era is over, providers will need to find ways to turn that cost center into a profit ...
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Computerworld Hong Kong - Apple's iCloud service, which was recently forced upon former-users of mac.com (including myself), has not proven to be a shiny seamless service. Many tech journos complain that iCloud doesn't represent the ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard is readying three new software capabilities that are designed to help enterprises pool their computing and storage resources across a network. The advances should make it easier for IT departments to ...
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IBM is considering acquiring RIM's enterprise arm,while the BlackBerry manufacturer is selling off NewBay and other minor acquisitions of its own,according to reports. RIM seems to be avoiding speaking to the media since its Q2 financials ...
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Network World-Linux operating system distributor Suse says it is gaining ground among cloud service providers as their choice platform for delivering the open source OS to customers,but at least one analyst says the market is still split ...
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Edinburgh Airport has selected cloud service provider Onyx Group to host its mission-critical IT infrastructure in a £3m deal because of its "speed to market and local presence", according to the airport's head of IT, Graeme Agnew. ...
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Many users of cloud data services are entirely unaware of inherent security risks,and security can only improve if customers pressure providers to deliver it,Frank Coggrave,VP of sales,EMEA&APAC at Guidance Software,has told Computing. ...
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The lack of established cloud standards and interoperability has made it difficult to move workloads between private clouds and public clouds and some experts say these problems hinder cloud adoption. Without any industry-wide cloud ...
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Microsoft has rebranded the Hotmail service to become Outlook.com. Currently in preview, Outlook.com is being heralded as a re-imagined email service by Microsoft. Further reading Microsoft admits to angering partners with Surface ...
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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 ...
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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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Imperial College London is moving its IT service management(ITSM)into the cloud after it grew out of its eight-year-old system. The project will be monitored and,if it proves as successful as expected,the college could move more IT to the ...
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