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World faces Zombie data centre crisis
If global warming was not enough, it seems that the world is waking up to the fact that it has a plague of zombie data centres. A new study says that 30 percent of all physical servers in data centres...
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Cloud passes over central Europe
As IBM announced that the US government had approved the sale of its semiconductor business to GlobalFoundries (GloFo),the company said that its current focus on cloud computing is paying off in...
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IBM bags $180 million cloud deal
Big Blue said today it has signed a five year IT services agreement with Columbia Pipeline Group (CPG), an independent US energy firm. CPG operates 15,000 miles of interstate pipelines across the USA....
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Microsoft to buy into cyber security
Reports said that Microsoft will pay $320 million to buy an Israeli cyber security company. That’s according to financial newspaper Calcalist, which predicts the acquisition will mean Microsoft will...
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IBM teams up with 200 universities
Big Blue is to team up with 200 universities worldwide as part of its plan to dominate the world market. In autumn this year, it will introduce its Academic Initiative for Cloud, which is intended to...
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Amazon is becoming all about the public cloud
One of the strange things about Amazon’s results last week is that its star performers was its public cloud business. The company is now completely dependant on a business you do not always associate...
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IBM claims lead in cloud patents
Big Blue is determined to be a leader in cloud computing, despite being snapped at the heels by newcomers like Amazon in the enterprise market. And it has said that researchers and inventors at IBM...
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Revenues up at Alibaba
Online retailer Alibaba which sells into the lucrative Chinese market said it turned in revenues of $109 billion for the quarter ended the 30th June. That’s up $28 billion from the same period last...
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IBM to buy Meteorix
Big Blue said it will buy a company called Meteorix which specialises in Workday, which is a set of cloud applications for finance and personnel management. Bridget van Kralingen, senior VP at IBM...
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IBM releases app translation services
Big Blue said it has made available a beta version of a service that will translate apps to be translated in nine other languages than English. IBM Globalisation Pipeline uses English as its core...
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