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Cloud Services Market to Hit $66 Billion by 2016
The global public cloud services market will more than triple in size over the next five years to reach revenue of $66 billion in 2016 and the market will see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29.4 percent from the $18 billion it will reach at the end of 2011, according to a forecast…
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Cloud Computing Needs Better Quality Assurance
Success in the cloud ultimately hinges on quality. The problem is that when you depend on the public Internet to deliver your services, quality is largely out of your control. What do I mean by quality? I’m talking about the combination of availability, performance and security that ultimately will inspire end users to embrace or…
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Capgemini, SAP Team on Managed Mobility Platform
SAP announced that it is teaming with long-time partner and consulting powerhouse Capgemini to roll out a new line of software as a service and platform as a service mobility solutions based on the Sybase Managed Mobility platform, many of which will support the overall push by SAP to support mobile access to its back-end…
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10 Features We Like In the Kindle Fire
10 Features We Like In the Kindle Fire The PriceWhat’s not to like about the Kindle Fire’s price. For $199, consumers are getting a 7-inch tablet fully equipped with Android, applications, and the e-commerce giant’s suite of services, including Amazon Instant and its cloud-storage service. It might not have the big display of the iPad…
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StillSecure, SoftLayer Partner on Cloud Security Monitoring Service
StillSecure, a managed network security solutions and certified compliance company, announced the availability of a cloud security solution called Cloud Security Monitoring Service. Targeted at cloud infrastructure users and providers, Cloud SMS is available free of charge to StillSecure customers through SoftLayer’s Technology Partners Marketplace portal. The first in a series of solutions to be…
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RIM PlayBook Prices Drop at Best Buy, Maybe Because of Kindle Fire
At a high-profile Sept. 28 event in New York City, Amazon unveiled its $199.99 Kindle Fire tablet, a 7-inch device with streamlined access to the online retailer s multimedia and cloud content. Within a day, it seems, prominent retailer Best Buy started slashing the price of another 7-inch tablet, the BlackBerry-branded PlayBook, by $200. Nor…
