By Maria Sheahan (from Reuters.) “German business software maker SAP said it was revamping its management to sharpen its focus on cloud computing as demand for the service which saves clients money grows. SAP and rivals such as IBM and Oracle are dashing to meet surging demand for cloud computing, which allows clients to ditch...
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By Charles Babcock (from Information Week.) “Last November a small startup called CloudCheckr launched the beta of its performance-monitoring system for Amazon Web Services. Now, it’s bringing out a specialized version, CloudCheckr Gov, suitable for monitoring performance on AWS GovCloud, no mean trick because...
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By Sean Ludwig (from Venture Beat.) “With the debut of the new Xbox One gaming system, we could focus on many things: hardware, flashy games, and entertainment options. But one aspect really gets me fired up: Developers should now be able to use Microsoft Azure’s cloud...
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By Alex Wilhelm (from TNW.) “In November, Microsoft and 21Vianet announced that they were working together to bring Azure, a infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service product, to China. Today the firms stated that...
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By Charles Babcock (from Information Week.) “Google has been using its own custom version of Linux, Google Compute Engine Linux, as it loads its customers’ applications into its infrastructure...
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By Vish Ganapathy (from Wired.) “Brick-and-mortar retailers have long favored highly visible investments, such as advertising or store design over spending hard-earned income on back-office information technology. In fact,...
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