When making disaster recovery plans, don't forget virtualized and cloud computing environments. That's the warning from research which found that 44% of enterprise data stored on virtualized systems is rarely backed up, and 60% of virtualized servers aren't included...
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Nov 29, 2010
SOURCE: PR Newswire Three-fourths of companies either currently employ enterprise-grade cloud computing solutions or plan to implement enterprise-grade cloud over the next five years, according to a new study commissioned by Savvis, Inc., a global leader in cloud...
Nov 23, 2010
NEWS: IBM has revealed details of a new storage architecture that promises to speed up the processing of business analytics in large datacentres and cloud environments The company spoke about its General Parallel File System-Shared Nothing Cluster (GPFS-SNC) at the...
Nov 23, 2010
PC giant Hewlett Packard (HPQ) is probably going to sign a mega customer relationship management (CRM) deal with Salesforce.com for about 35,000 to 40,000 seats, a move that might end up replacing Oracle Siebel as its CRM provider. "HPQ is completely shutting down...
Nov 22, 2010
SOURCE: Kapow Software Kapow Software (formerly Kapow Technologies) today re-vamped its brand and announced a novel approach to integration called “browser-based data integration” powered by its patented Kapow Extraction Browser ™. The Kapow Extraction Browser is...
Nov 22, 2010
Amazon Web Services (AWS) now allows users of its cloud computing platform to take advantage of the extra power graphics processing units (GPUs) can give. The company hopes the move will attract high-performance computing applications to its service. AWS has added a...
Nov 22, 2010
Symantec Corp. today announced the global results of its sixth annual Symantec Disaster Recovery Study, which demonstrates the growing challenge of managing disparate virtual, physical and cloud resources because of added complexity for organizations protecting and...
Nov 19, 2010
Shares of Salesforce.com soared nearly 16% Friday morning to $134 as investors rushed to buy into the company after it reported record quarterly revenue that was up 30% in the third quarter. The company impressed the Street with its booking and billings numbers, the...
Nov 17, 2010
Cloud computing seems to be going through its incubation stage much as virtualization did in its early days. Some companies are testing the waters, but very few are ready to jump in feet first. Let’s see how virtualization technology vendors Microsoft and VMware are...
Nov 16, 2010
SOURCE: WSO2 WSO2 today announced the launch of four cloud middleware services for extending enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementations to business users. Based on middleware products from the award-winning open source WSO2 Carbon middleware...
