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Oy. what a week IBM has had. And it’s only Monday. Last week, a report surfaced that the IT giant would soon cut a whopping 26 percent of its workforce — or… Read more »
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Cloud computing is internet-based computing in which large groups of remote servers are networked to allow the centralized data storage, and online access to computer services or resources. Clouds can be classified as public, private or hybrid. Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale, similar to a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network. At the foundation of cloud computing is the broader concept of converged infrastructure and shared services.
MoreOy. what a week IBM has had. And it’s only Monday. Last week, a report surfaced that the IT giant would soon cut a whopping 26 percent of its workforce — or… Read more »
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Lawyers say never to sign (or click on) anything without reading it first, but that rule typically goes out the window when it comes to complex-yet-boring end user licensing agreements (EULAs)… Read more »
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Amazon Web Services is not an organization that rests on its laurels. New stats compiled by CloudEndure show that AWS, the public cloud market leader, boosted reliability significantly over the course of last year,… Read more »
Battery Ventures will soon have a new general partner: Dharmesh Thakker, formerly of Intel Capital, will join Roger Lee and Chelsea Stoner in Battery’s Menlo Park, California office. At Intel, Thakker was… Read more »
IBM has pledged to deliver a $7 billion cloud business by 2015 for a couple of years — and now, according to its own numbers, it’s achieved that goal. On its… Read more »
It’s three weeks into 2015 and here’s the first cloud deal of the year: Managed service provider Datapipe is buying GoGrid, an infrastructure-as-a-service vendor that has been morphing into a big data specialist. Terms were not disclosed, but the… Read more »