Rackspace launches Big Data Solution and Managed Support for ApacheTM Hadoop®
  • Posted on 29th October 2013 in by Phil Alsop

Rackspace® Hosting is announcing the availability of the Hortonworks Data Platform powered by Apache Hadoop in both the managed hosting environment and the Rackspace public cloud. Customers can choose the right environment to host their Big Data solutions, and take advantage of a hybrid cloud...

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Skyscape Cloud Services announces price reductions and service level improvements
  • Posted on 29th October 2013 in by Phil Alsop

The assured cloud services provider announces plans to reduce costs by nearly 60 percent.

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Cloud Computing provides competitive advantage
  • Posted on 28th October 2013 in by Phil Alsop

IBM has announced that organizations gaining competitive advantage through high cloud adoption are reporting almost double the revenue growth and nearly 2.5 times higher gross profit growth than peer companies that are more cautious about cloud computing, from a recent survey conducted with more...

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Heavy Clouds need optimising for ISV growth
  • Posted on 28th October 2013 in by Phil Alsop

The shift away from on premise towards cloud computing continues unabated. Yet while the business reasons for handing over this non-core activity to a third party add up, is the financial model really as compelling as promised? In reality, with upwards of 80% of UK hosted providers still using...

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Oracle buys BigMachines

Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire BigMachines, a leading cloud-based Configure, Price...

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Contract signed with London Business School

Outsourcery plc has signed an agreement with London Business School to provide integrated cloud...

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Powering The Cloud – less than one week to go!

The largest vendor-independent conferences on data storage, virtualisation and the datacentre see...

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Olery realises benefits Of Cloud application integration

CloudBees, Inc. says that Olery, the Amsterdam-based provider of online reputation management tools...

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Ovum reveals 90% of organizations are putting their futures at risk by not adapting to customers

Preliminary research by Ovum shows that 90 percent of organizations are at risk of becoming...

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Increasing awareness of importance of data sovereignty, but education still needed

53 per cent of organisations now see where data is held as a key decision factor.

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Talend to support Teradata Data Warehouse as a Service

Talend is now supporting Data Warehouse as a Service (DWaaS) from Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the leading...

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Thomson Snell & Passmore selects Workshare for secure file sharing and collaboration

Thomson Snell & Passmore (TSP), a top UK law firm, has selected secure enterprise collaboration...

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The Linux Foundation releases Open Cloud report

The Linux Foundation has announced the immediate release of a new report "Understanding the...

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Flexera Software enhances InstallAnywhere 2013

Enhancements help application producers expand their installation capabilities into complex...

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It’s all about the data: Hybrid IT enables customer adoption of Cloud Computing

Hybrid IT environment becomes the new norm to balance the concerns over data security and to enable...

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