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Public Cloud Services Market in The MENA Is on Pace to Grow 23 Percent in 2014
May 14, 2014The public cloud services market in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) is on pace to grow 23 percent in 2014 to total $629 million, up from $511 million in 2013, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, while Software as a ...
Tags: Cloud Services, Gartner
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IBM Will Take The Wraps off a Portfolio of Products for Software-Defined Storage
May 13, 2014On Monday, IBM will take the wraps off a portfolio of products for software-defined storage, an area where established vendors and startups alike are already claiming the future has arrived. ‘Elastic Storage’ aims at some ...
Tags: IBM, Storage Product
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Google Is Making Its IaaS GCE Available as a Full-Fledged Commercial Service
Dec 4, 2013After running the service in preview mode for over a year, Google is making its IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) Google Compute Engine (GCE) available as a full-fledged commercial service. The company has established a service level ...
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Storage Has Been Slow to Catch up
Oct 29, 2013The model of buying cloud computing resources is different from that of buying traditional hardware and software. Instead of buying licences and investing in equipment, in a cloud computing model, users pay for the resources they use ...
Tags: Pay-Per-Use Pricing, Hefty Storage
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Nigel Beighton Outlined The Five Areas
Sep 20, 2013Nigel Beighton, VP of technology of hosting company Rackspace, outlined the five areas that firms should focus on in order to get the most out of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Speaking at Structure Europe in London, Beighton said ...
Tags: Computer Products, cloud
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After Three Years,OpenStack Has Grown Into a True Enterprise Proposition
Jul 24, 2013After three years, OpenStack has grown into a true enterprise proposition, according to Rackspace VP of Technology and Products, Nigel Beighton, with a user community growing as the technology matures into a viable option for data centre ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Apple Is on The Hunt for Cloud Infrastructure Engineers Familiar
Jul 23, 2013Apple is on the hunt for cloud infrastructure engineers familiar with building large-scale deployments like those at Amazon Web Services and OpenStack companies, according to a job posting. The eventual hire will work to "build the next ...
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The Global Outsourcing Market Will Reach $288bn in Value This Year
Jul 19, 2013The global outsourcing market will reach $288bn in value this year, according to analyst group Gartner. The figure represents a modest increase of 2.8 per cent - 5.1 per cent in "constant currency" - compared to 2012. "Nearly all ITO ...
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Ozzie Is One of Three New Board Members HP Announced Monday
Jul 18, 2013Hewlett-Packard's board of directors has received a major infusion of software know-how, with the addition of former Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie . Ozzie is one of three new board members HP announced Monday, along with ...
Tags: Computer Products, HP
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Security Monitoring Can Be Done in Some Public Cloud Environments
Jun 14, 2013Security monitoring – the type involving traditional security information and event management (SIEM) – can be done in some public cloud environments, according to Gartner. And if you're using public cloud services, it's time to ...
Tags: Security, Public Cloud
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Mark Shuttleworth Closed Ubuntu's Seriocomic Bug #1 Report on Thursday
May 31, 2013Open-source advocate Mark Shuttleworth closed Ubuntu's seriocomic Bug #1 report on Thursday after leaving it open nearly nine years. The move heralded a major shift in rhetoric from the leader of the world's most popular Linux distribution. ...
Tags: Ubuntu, Bug#1 Report
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IBM Is Pitching Its SmartCloud IaaS for Use in Data Reporting and Analysis
May 28, 2013Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis. "We're the only player in the marketplace that has [a cloud service] for data-in-motion -- ...
Tags: IBM, Computer Products, SmartCloud
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VMware Has Launched Its Long-Anticipated Public Infrastructure as a Service
May 24, 2013VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from other established hybrid cloud offerings. VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service will ...
Tags: analytics, cloud, CNME, computer news middle east, data centres
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Dell Is "Refining" Its Own Plans to Build a Public Cloud Based on OpenStack
May 20, 2013Fresh off the?acquisition?of a company that specialises in helping customers manage resources across multiple public clouds, Dell said it is "refining" its own plans to build a public cloud based on?OpenStack. Dell has said for the last ...
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SunGard Data System Is Feeling The Pinch as Some Business Clientele Move Data to The Cloud
May 18, 2013Can the old guard in business continuity and disaster-recovery services thrive in an era when the companies are looking at new ways to process business data? SunGard Data Systems, with decades of experience in availability services, is ...
Tags: Sungard, Cloud Service, Disaster Recovery