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IBM to acquire Aspera

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IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Emeryville, CA-based Aspera, Inc. Aspera’s technology helps companies securely speed the movement of massive data files around the world. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Nearly half of businesses are concerned about cloud’s dependency on internet access, finds Claranet’s 3rd annual cloud adoption survey. Around half of UK cloud users are concerned about cloud’s dependency on internet access, potentially inhibiting organisations’ experiences of cloud computing, Claranet’s third annual cloud adoption survey has found. The findings, states the Managed Services Provider (MSP), serve as a reminder of the importance of the network to...

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to help London become digital world leader

Ambitious plans to transform Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park into one of the world’s leading digital environments have been unveiled today by the Mayor of London.

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Cisco has announced a new Cisco Desktop® as a Service (DaaS) solution, which adds highly agile, cloud-based desktop virtualization solutions to Cisco's existing desktop virtualization product portfolio. The Cisco DaaS solution is built on the Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution, enabling cloud providers to offer their customers a Cisco Powered, virtual desktop subscription service.

SunGard announces Business Trends for 2014

SunGard Availability Services has revealed its top five predictions for 2014 as businesses look to drive availability and establish an ‘All-time™’ mentality both at a customer and enterprise level.

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Amazon Web Services, Inc. has announced the availability of I2 instances, the next generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) storage-optimized high I/O instances based on solid state disk (SSD) technology that provides customers with very high random I/O performance.

Ocean provides IT support for customers, in exclusive deal with London data centre, City Lifeline

IT services provider Ocean Intelligent Communications and central London data centre City Lifeline...

AssureStor launches Filer as a Service (FaaS), delivering NetApp® secondary storage in the Cloud

AssureStor’s Filer as a Service platform delivers an easy to deploy, simple to manage and...

Open Hub Med: Mediterranean data traffic consortium data centre goes live

Open Hub Med, the European technological consortium, has activated a data centre to make Italy...

Ark Data Centres buys Renault Retail Group’s West London site

Ark Data Centres has bought Renault Retail Group’s West London site on Western Avenue, Park Royal...

Gigya's data centre helps with privacy

Gigya has opened a new data centre within Russian national borders to ensure compliance with the...

OpenStack users show off edge computing, container integration and live TV use cases

AT&T, eBay, GE, MIT, U.S. Army Cyber School, Verizon kick off OpenStack Summit by demonstrating...

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