Customers of AWS public cloud are reaping the benefits of cost savings, elasticity and scalability, but many are still wary of putting sensitive applications in the cloud, despite having a "cloud-first" and "cloud-ready" strategy. At an ...
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U.S.-based corporations and government agencies have been shipping application development work to offshore IT services providers for years. Now, thanks to cloud computing, foreign companies are starting to bring their business to ...
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EasyIT today announced it has been named to the Ingram Micro SMB 500. Unveiled at the Ingram Micro 2012 "Turn the Tables" Fall SMB Invitational in Rancho Mirage, Calif., the inaugural list celebrates the top 500 fastest-growing Ingram Micro ...
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Microsoft SharePoint technology is increasingly used as a business collaboration platform on-premise or in the cloud, to connect and empower people. SharePoint additionally cuts costs with a unified infrastructure. Organizations can rapidly ...
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2012 was the year cloud computing hit the mainstream.More users started adopting cloud-based services and vendors intensified competition by launching aggressive price wars for market share. Enterprises and public sector organisations ...
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Kaspersky Lab has outlined key security trends of 2012 and presented their views on the core threats of 2013. The most notable predictions for the next year include the continued rise of targeted attacks, cyber-espionage and nation-state ...
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Samsung Electronics' semiconductor arm has begun volume production of 128GB embedded memory modules for next-generation smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, the company said on Tuesday. An upgrade to 128GB would double or ...
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Sophos today announced a free anti-virus defence app for Google Android devices which works via the Sophos cloud-based service. Separately Sophos also made available Android and Apple iOS apps for securing files held in the cloud ...
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Microsoft's purchase of Yammer is probably as much about Yammer's marketing model as it is about social networking prowess. Microsoft's social networking capabilities are perceived as weakA--and the aim of its recent $1.2 billion purchase ...
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Oracle announced it is expanding its Oracle Cloud services portfolio, during a talk at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco this week. Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Oracle Product Development, delivered the talk, and ...
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Lenovo yesterday said it plans to acquire Stoneware, a small U.S. based company specialising in cloud products for schools and governments, as part of the PC maker’s strategy to bolster its cloud computing offerings. While Lenovo ...
Concurrency, Inc., the 2012 Microsoft Central Region Partner of the Year, announced today an educational event co-sponsored with Microsoft to share knowledge about upcoming major releases of Microsoft enterprise products. The September 13 ...
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World's Largest Technology Distributor Recognizes Wall Street Network to its Inaugural Ingram Micro SMB 500 List Wall Street Network, Inc. (WSN) today announced it has been named to the Ingram Micro SMB 500. Unveiled at the Ingram Micro ...
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Symantec this week announced two new data encryption options, one that is file-based encryption for use with Dropbox, and the second that works as an extension to the AppleiOS mail client to encrypt and decrypt documents. Symantec Mobile ...
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Selecting cloud service providers could become easier, thanks to changes made today to the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) code of practice. In 2010, CIF published a the code to promote the adoption of cloud-based services. It previously ...
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