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SAP Teams Up With EMC, VMware on Cloud Platform
As cloud computing and virtualization rapidly evolve, business management software specialist SAP (NYSE: SAP) is working in a three-way strategic collaboration with partners EMC (NYSE: EMC) and VMware to develop tools and services that make it possible for businesses to adopt cloud and run SAP systems in cloud infrastructures with increasing levels of automation. The…
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Emerson Releases Network Power Data Center Efficiency Assessment
Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR) and a specialist in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, today introduced the Network Power Data Center Efficiency Assessment, an onsite infrastructure assessment designed to help enterprise companies identify, evaluate and resolve cooling and power vulnerabilities that could threaten data center performance and efficiency. Offered…
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Security Service Spending to Top $35 Billion in 2011: Gartner
Worldwide security services spending is on pace to reach $35.1 billion in 2011, up from $31.1 billion in 2010, according to IT analytics firm Gartner. The market is forecast to reach $38.3 billion in 2012 and surpass $49.1 billion in 2015, according to the company’s research. In addition, the IT management segment of security services…
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IT Budgets Increase as Businesses Add Staff
IT budgets have seen the largest increase in two years as small to midsize businesses continue to add IT staff, and nearly one in three SMBs, or 31 percent, plan to hire IT staff—which is consistent with data reported for the first half of 2011, found a survey from social business networking specialist Spiceworks. Overall…
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Vidyo Bringing Video Conferencing to the Cloud
Vidyo is bringing its video-collaboration technology to the cloud. Vidyo officials on Nov. 8 unveiled the Virtualized VidyoRouter, an all-software version of its Vidyo Router appliance that can be run on virtual machines from the likes of VMware and be deployed in hybrid, private or public clouds, such as Amazon Web Services. The offering greatly…
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Rackspace to Support OpenStack-Based Private Clouds
Rackspace launched a kit that will make it possible for organizations to launch private clouds based on OpenStack and still receive support from the company. The Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition is a package that businesses can use to set up an OpenStack-based private cloud outside of the Rackspace environment, the hosting provider said Nov. 7.…