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Cloudforce: News International trusts customer data to the cloud

Sophie Curtis — Wed, 23 May 2012 08:42:00 GMT

Newspaper publisher News International is using cloud-based solutions from Salesforce.com. CloudSense and Zuora to fulfil product orders, monitor customer preferences and process payments.

Startup SaaSID takes wraps off web app control

John E Dunn — Tue, 22 May 2012 13:29:00 GMT

New UK startup SaasID has emerged from stealth mode with a browser plug-in that makes it possible for the first time to manage any web application without having to resort to a complex proxying setup.

EMC syncs deal with Syncplicity for cloud file management

Stephen Lawson — Tue, 22 May 2012 08:10:00 GMT

EMC has acquired Syncplicity, an enterprise file-management service provider, for an undisclosed sum.

EMC synchs deal with Syncplicity for cloud file management

Stephen Lawson — Tue, 22 May 2012 08:10:00 GMT

EMC has acquired Syncplicity, an enterprise file-management service provider, for an undisclosed sum.

Academics propose groundbreaking uses for Watson

Jon Gold — Mon, 21 May 2012 07:24:00 GMT

Three winners of an academic competition at the University of Rochester to create the most innovative and useful applications for IBM's Watson cognitive computing systems were announced yesterday by Big Blue.

Atos enters final testing phase for London 2012 Olympic Games

Julian Goldsmith — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:54:00 GMT

Outsourcer Atos is about to commence its final test phase for its systems supporting the 2012 Olympic Games in London, before systems go live on 1 June.

Nvidia makes the GPU Virtual

Loyd Case — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:45:00 GMT

Virtual machines is one way enterprise IT departments addresses the issue of security when users want to use their own platforms. Virtualised solutions like Citrix and VMWare allow users to run approved applications. These applications run in a server in the local or internet cloud.

SAP betting big on HANA in-memory database at Sapphire

Chris Kanaracus — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:23:00 GMT

SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire conference in Orlando Wednesday, announcing a slew of new applications, partnerships and functional enhancements for the system.

US firms over-reliant on firewalls to defend against DDoS attacks

John E Dunn — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:03:00 GMT

More than half of US businesses still rely on conventional firewalls or intrusion prevention systems to shield themselves from the scourge of DDoS attacks, a survey by services firm Neustar has found.

IBM brings Intel Ivy Bridge architecture to M4 server line

Jon Gold — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:50:00 GMT

IBM will begin rolling out a family of Intel Ivy Bridge-equipped versions of its M4 server expected to reduce data centre power costs and offer entry level virtualisation servers.

Amazon Web Services helps users avoid bill shock with email alerts

Mikael Ricknäs — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:05:00 GMT

IT staff can now keep track of the total cost or the charge for individual services and get alerts via email

Amazon Web Services helps users avoid bill shock with email alerts

Mikael Ricknäs — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:05:00 GMT

IT staff can now keep track of the total cost or the charge for individual services and get alerts via email

Dell and IBM announce servers with new Intel Xeon chips

Agam Shah — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:13:00 GMT

Dell and IBM have announced servers with Intel's latest Xeon server chips, which will bring faster throughput and memory allowing servers to take on more complex workloads while reducing data centre costs.

Daisy Group completes £1m investment in bomb-proof data centre

Sophie Curtis — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:56:00 GMT

Unified communications provider Daisy Group has added a 12-tonne, bomb-proof door to its underground data centre in Manchester, which houses critical data for clients including Manchester Airports Group, Racing Post and Trinity Mirror.

Virtualise the rest of the data centre, VMware recommends at Interop

Brandon Butler — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:19:00 GMT

VMware have recommended organisations follow up server virutalisation and virtualise the rest of the data centre and - including the network.

Arup outsources data centre to Vtesse, to cope with growth

Antony Savvas — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT

More cost-effective than refurbishing existing space

Three deploys managed business intelligence platform from IBM

Antony Savvas — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:15:00 GMT

Mobile operator Three is deploying an £18 million managed business intelligence platform to aid cross-channel marketing campaigns.

Three deploys managed business intelligence platform for IBM

Antony Savvas — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:15:00 GMT

Mobile operator Three is deploying an £18 million managed business intelligence platform to aid cross-channel marketing campaigns.

Can you rescue your data back from the cloud?

Stephanie Overby — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:30:00 GMT

Outsourcing contracts typically include termination and transition assistance provisions that outline the IT service provider's responsibilities regarding returning data. IT buyers are surprised to find out that their cloud computing contracts contain no such provisions.

Security concerns over a data centre in the cloud

Mathias Thurman — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:45:00 GMT

When the company data centre moves to various cloud configurations, the provisioning of servers will need to be addressed.

Google SPDY gets boost as F5 adds support to Big-IP controllers

John E Dunn — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:49:00 GMT

F5 Networks has become the first app delivery controller vendor to announce support for Google’s SPDY web-acceleration protocol, adding support to its Big-IP hardware.

Google SPDY gets boost as F5 adds support to Big-IP controllers

John E Dunn — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:49:00 GMT

F5 Networks has become the first app delivery controller vendor to announce support for Google’s SPDY web-acceleration protocol, adding support to its Big-IP hardware.

Hitachi launches all-in-one data centre service

Jay Alabaster — Tue, 08 May 2012 11:57:00 GMT

Hitachi has launched a new data centre business, the "GNEXT Facility & IT Management Service", that includes everything from planning and construction to IT support.

More search could be crowdsourced, say researchers at ACM CHI

Joab Jackson — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:15:00 GMT

Search engines could use crowdsourcing to expand the range of answers they give to their users, a group of researchers from the Microsoft and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have concluded.

Pondering Google Drive: Who owns your data in the cloud?

John Brandon — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:00:00 GMT

Google Drive raises several concerns about cloud storage. Many of these consumer-level questions - who owns your data, how data can be used and what happens if the data is lost or stolen - are ones enterprise IT executives should be asking, too.