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IBM to acquire Aspera

Posted 12 years ago in by Phil Alsop

IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Emeryville, CA-based Aspera, Inc. Aspera’s technology helps companies securely speed the movement of massive data files around the world. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Posted 12 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Nearly half of businesses are concerned about cloud’s dependency on internet access, finds Claranet’s 3rd annual cloud adoption survey. Around half of UK cloud users are concerned about cloud’s dependency on internet access, potentially inhibiting organisations’ experiences of cloud computing, Claranet’s third annual cloud adoption survey has found. The findings, states the Managed Services Provider (MSP), serve as a reminder of the importance of the network to...

Posted 12 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Ambitious plans to transform Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park into one of the world’s leading digital environments have been unveiled today by the Mayor of London.

Posted 12 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Cisco has announced a new Cisco Desktop® as a Service (DaaS) solution, which adds highly agile, cloud-based desktop virtualization solutions to Cisco's existing desktop virtualization product portfolio. The Cisco DaaS solution is built on the Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution, enabling cloud providers to offer their customers a Cisco Powered, virtual desktop subscription service.

Posted 12 years ago in by Phil Alsop

SunGard Availability Services has revealed its top five predictions for 2014 as businesses look to drive availability and establish an ‘All-time™’ mentality both at a customer and enterprise level.

Posted 12 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Amazon Web Services, Inc. has announced the availability of I2 instances, the next generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) storage-optimized high I/O instances based on solid state disk (SSD) technology that provides customers with very high random I/O performance.

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IBM to acquire Aspera

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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to help London become digital world leader

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