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Hitachi Data Systems gets into rentable clouds

The storage company has outlined its strategy for renting more of its kit to customers while also managing it as part of a private cloud strategy Read more

25 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

Amazon rolls 64-bit capability into small instances

...brought 64-bit operating system capabilities to its small and medium-sized rentable virtual machines. Along with the 64-bit update, Amazon also announced on... Read more

8 March, 2012

Amazon separates servers from IP addresses

Amazon Web Services has released a product that separates its rentable servers — 'instances' — from their IP addresses. The Elastic Network Interface (ENI) product... Read more

22 December, 2011

Claranet launches hypervisor-agnostic cloud

Managed services provider Claranet has announced a hypervisor-agnostic rentable cloud service. The Claranet Virtual Datacentre launched on Wednesday with one datacentre... Read more

25 November, 2011

Storm unleashes 32-core cloud server

Storm on Demand has released a 32-core managed cloud server. The rentable hardware, which has 96GB of RAM, 32-cores and one terabyte of... Read more

10 July, 2011

Researcher uses AWS cloud to crack Wi-Fi passwords

...take a very long time," Roth told ZDNet UK. The CCS uses rentable machine infrastructure from AWS, focusing on the recently released cluster GPU instance... Read more

14 January, 2011 by Jack Clark

1,000-node big data workbench to crunch analytics' toughest problems

...Greenplum analytics into the cloud, though the node functions more like a rentable supercomputer than a provisionable service Read more

23 May, 2012 by Nick Heath

ElasticHosts unveils simple cloud web hosting for SMEs

...up of PHP and HTML, while Managed Cloud Servers provides companies with rentable computers whose infrastructure is handled by ElasticHosts. Cloud Sites "is a clustered... Read more

3 May, 2012 by Jack Clark

Facebook, Google: Welcome to the new feudalism

As more and more people spend time on Facebook and Google, the services are gaining an unprecedented amount of user data and becoming like feudal lords from the Middle Ages Read more

10 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

AWS: Enterprises slow to reap big data benefits

...according to Amazon Web Services. As the cloud has grown, prices for rentable computing power have come down, while scale-out applications like Hadoop have... Read more

24 April, 2012

Amazon adds '1-Click' software setup to its cloud

...technology officer, wrote in a blog post on Thursday. The market has rentable machine images of software, ranging from enterprise applications from SAP through to... Read more

20 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

Joyent infrastructure cloud touches down in Europe

...any technical control to the private datacentre operator. Pricing for Joyent's rentable Linux and Windows computers is marginally higher than that for AWS, though... Read more

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

Rackspace wires OpenStack into its cloud

...Monday at the OpenStack Design Summit in San Francisco. It ranges from rentable compute and storage services, to cloud databases, management tools and other software... Read more

16 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

Amazon plugs A9 search into its AWS cloud

...for the AWS service are set according to the size of the rentable virtual computer — 'instance' — used to search, the amount of documents uploaded, the... Read more

13 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

Amazon reduces cloud prices across globe

...an AWS deployment. Prices have been reduced for elastic compute cloud (EC2) rentable instances; the relational database service (RDS); Hadoop-variant Elastic MapReduce; and ElastiCache... Read more

6 March, 2012

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

6 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...

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

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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...

11 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

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SRist

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.

14 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...

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

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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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....

18 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...

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

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

19 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@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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