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Google and Microsoft reportedly in race to launch IaaS

...has also been racing to get its own Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform out. For now, it is looking like Microsoft may cross the... Read more

18 May, 2012 by Dara Kerr

Red Hat makes OpenShift cloud platform open source

...a blog post. "The cloud in general, and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and PaaS implementations specifically, should not be vehicles that promote vendor lock... Read more

1 May, 2012 by Jack Clark

Joyent infrastructure cloud touches down in Europe

...Like Amazon Web Services, Joyent Cloud is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, but what sets it apart is its uptime, according to Tuck... Read more

19 April, 2012 by Jack Clark
Rackspace wires OpenStack into its cloud

Rackspace wires OpenStack into its cloud

...technology. HP has also based its public cloud on the open-source IaaS, which earlier in April saw the release of its fifth distribution, named... Read more

16 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

Oracle's cloud to be US-only at launch

...s slides described the service as having an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) component. However, Jewell said this was erroneous."It's really just a... Read more

7 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

Citrix acquires Cloud.com for end-to-end service

...the open-source CloudStack technology, which creates virtual infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) public or private clouds similar to Amazon Web Services. CloudStack can be... Read more

13 July, 2011 by Jack Clark
Inside public and private cloud management

Inside public and private cloud management

...familiar environment that runs in the cloud; and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), where you get access to some of the mechanisms that control the... Read more

9 May, 2011 by Staff

OpenStack Cactus release boosts hypervisor support

...service (PaaS) scheme. A PaaS automates the underlying infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) to make it easier for developers to deploy applications to their clouds... Read more

15 April, 2011 by Jack Clark

Cloud takes up 10pc of external IT spend, says Gartner

...service (SaaS), business services, application infrastructure services and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Approximately a third of the cloud spending went on SaaS, which includes... Read more

22 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Amazon plugs A9 search into its AWS cloud

CloudSearch is for developers who want to build applications with search features without having to develop the ranking algorithms or manage the infrastructure that usually underpins search, according to Amazon Read more

13 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

Joyent gets $85m to take on Amazon in cloud

The investor funding will allow Joyent to expand its cloud datacentres to across the world and help boost its service provider-targeted software, heightening its competition with Amazon Web Services Read more

24 January, 2012 by Jack Clark

Dell and IBM ramp up cloud ambitions

Both companies are becoming better placed to challenge the more established cloud firms... Read more

11 April, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

IBM targets telcos with cloud service platform

IBM has announced the IBM Cloud Service Provider Platform, a hardware and software package aimed at companies that wish to provide cloud services Read more

15 October, 2010 by Jack Clark

SaaS spending to rocket in next five years

...will see uninterrupted revenue growth to 2020. The infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market is expected to grow from $2.9bn to $5.9bn between... Read more

27 April, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Amazon cloud outage affects reddit and Quora

Amazon's cloud service EC2 fails... Read more

21 April, 2011 by Shelley Portet

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

2 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

3 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

7 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

9 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

10 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

13 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

14 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

15 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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