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onkar - November 4, 2015
- Cloud Update
Rackspace, Intel to coordinate ‘world’s largest OpenStack dev team’
Rackspace and Intel are teaming up to launch an OpenStack Innovation Centre aimed at bolstering upstream development of the cloud platform. The centre, housed at Rackspace’s corporate HQ in San…
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onkar
- November 4, 2015
- Cloud Update
AWS rakes in $1.8bn in Q2 as ‘big four’ corner half the cloud services market
AWS revenue for the second quarter of this year topped $1.82bn, an increase of about 81 per cent year on year. The results come as other major IT service providers…
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onkar
- November 4, 2015
- Cloud Update
84% of UK CIOs say cloud reduces overall IT control – survey
A recent survey of 100 UK CIOs suggests close to nine in ten believe unsanctioned use of cloud services has created long term security risks for their organisations, and about…
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onkar
- November 4, 2015
- Cloud Update
Huawei, partners push cloud transformation for financial IT
As part of its expansion into IT services and the financial services markets, Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has partnered with 11 banking IT solution providers to establish an open platform…
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onkar
- November 4, 2015
- Cloud Update
IoT security and the world of US medicine
Internet of Things security is anything but a homogenous concept. It is, rather, extremely dependent on the type of products being developed and – in many cases – the sort…
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onkar
- November 4, 2015
- Cloud Update
Springs.io: Containers are great, but need to be simple to adopt
ElasticHosts founder Richard Davies launched another container-focused venture this week – Springs.io, a pay-as-you-use cloud service targeted primarily at Linux developers. Davies told BCN that while the volume around Docker…
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onkar
- November 4, 2015
- Cloud Update
IBM to invest $60m in Africa to expand cloud, analytics skills
IBM will invest $60m in Africa over three years to expand its technical academy and educational initiatives in the region. The company said it wants to bolster its investment in…
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onkar
- November 4, 2015
- Cloud Update
Will Microsoft’s ‘walled-garden’ approach to virtualisation pay off?
While the data centre of old played host to an array of physical technologies, the data centre of today and of the future is based on virtualisation, public or private…
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onkar
- November 4, 2015
- Cloud Update
Google Drive vulnerable to undetectable phishing campaign, experts claim
Google Drive has been subject to a phishing attack that used JavaScript code obfuscation and compromised websites in order to steal end-user account credentials using Google services. Elastica researchers explained…
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onkar
- November 4, 2015
- Cloud Update
Pivotal teams with Telstra on enterprise big data
Pivotal announced a partnership with Australian telco Telstra that will see the two firms jointly marketing Pivotal’s big data development services to Telstra enterprise customers. Pivotal will also offer enterprise…
