European sports network Eurosport has selected telecoms and cloud services provider Interoute's video conferencing system to improve communication at the sports media group. Interoute is deploying the video conferencing systems at ...
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Networking giant Cisco is to buy scalable solid state memory system provider Whiptail in a deal worth about $415m. According to Cisco, the deal would strengthen its Unified Computing System (UCS) strategy and allow it to better support ...
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Security provisions of commercial cloud services - especially software-as-a-service (SaaS) - are frequently inadequate, with contracts containing "ambiguous terms regarding the maintenance of data confidentiality, data integrity and ...
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At US$99, the mini PC developed by thin-client expert Young Song is meant to be affordable. In fact, the price is so low, most consumers won't hesitate to buy one, he said Wednesday. But unlike other mini PCs that run Windows, this one ...
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Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire Instantis,a cloud and on-premise project portfolio management company,to beef up its cloud services portfolio.The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Combining the capabilities ...
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Verizon's Enterprise Solutions group today unveiled a cloud services portfolio for the healthcare industry that it said can meet federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements for safeguarding electronic ...
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Data recovery experts have been busy in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, which left a slew of data centers underwater, damaging equipment and posing a significant threat to business-critical data. Apparently disregarding weather forecasters' ...
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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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Many businesses are still reluctant to move sensitive data into an outsourced datacentre,according to analyst Gartner. The findings,based on Gartner's latest annual survey of the state of risk management programmes globally,show that many ...
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