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UK law firm replaces NetApp with Nimble Storage array
UK-based law firm Morgan Cole LLP is replacing its NetApp storage platform with a new Nimble Storage array, citing cost and performance benefits.
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Oracle opens second UK data centre to support government G-Cloud
Oracle has announced the opening of a new data centre in the UK to support the government?s G-Cloud initiative, following a similar move by Salesforce.com earlier this month.
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SAP unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud service
SAP is set to offer customers the option of running their applications on top of a cloud-based version of its HANA in-memory database technology.
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Betfair selects VMware vCloud to speed app development
Online betting exchange Betfair has implemented VMware?s vCloud as its attempts to redefine its IT department as a ?service broker, delivering virtualised environments to its agile development team through software defined data centre tools.
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Juniper closer to Cisco in shipping SDN brains
Juniper Networks this week will extend its SDN offerings with the release of its controller, roughly six months ahead of schedule.
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Cloud SLAs 'fall short,' says user advocacy group
Service level agreements in the cloud computing market are skewed in the favor of providers, can be difficult for customers to decipher and in some cases are rigid and non-negotiable. Those are some of the findings from the Cloud Standards Customer Council, a user advocacy group that recently reviewed SLAs from some of the industry?s largest providers.
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Brocade unleashes a data centre barrage
Brocade this week extended its data centre networking portfolio with hardware and software enhancements designed to better integrate and align physical and virtual resources.
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Open Data Centre Alliance: Virtual machines inching to portability
While some progress has been achieved in getting virtual machines to run across different types of hypervisors, more work is still needed to bring them to the level of portability that enterprises are seeking, according to a study released by the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA).
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Government can reap benefits of IT commoditisation by embracing open source
Government departments can drive greater procurement competitiveness by looking to open source software in an increasingly ?commoditised? IT market, according to Tariq Rashid Lead Architect at the Home Office.
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Dell corrals acquired products for BYOD market
Dell has pulled together products it gained from its recent acquisitions into a series of BYOD offerings, though it faces the challenge of selling them at a time when the company's ownership hangs in the balance.
