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Amazon Web Services Follows Up with New Service Tags
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is continuing its efforts to please its corporate customers. The latest update is a new tagging mechanism to help organizations more easily manage costs. The new feature allows companies to categorize AWS usage so that the costs can later be allocated to a specific project, department or other billing unit. AWS ...
Your Guide to VMworld 2012: Keynotes, Events and Live Streams
VMworld 2012 will be held on August 26-30 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, so here are a few resources for attendees and online viewers who plan on making the most of VMware’s annual event. The full list of sessions and exhibitors can be found here and here. There are a few keynotes in ...
Pure Storage Announces Massive Changes to FlashArray Software
All-flash storage vendor Pure Storage updated the software powering its flagship storage system, FlashArray. As far as new features go, FlashArray will ship with ZeroSnap Snapshots, a new component that has been optimized to run on HDDs. The company touts a capacity of up to 1,000 snapshots and a lot of automation – snapshots are ...
EMC Launches New Product, Pulls VMware Closer
EMC had a couple of big updates this week, including the launch of a storage product first unveiled in May, and an update from VMware that could have a big impact on the virtualization subsidiary’s relations with the channel. First things first, the storage giant announced the general availability of the VNXe3150 unified storage system, an ...
Piston Cloud Unveils Free, Easy OpenStack Distro For Internal IT
Piston Cloud’s flagship offering is Enterprise OpenStack, a tweaked up distribution of the increasingly popular open-source cloud platform. The only problem is that if you don’t happen to be deploying on a very large scale configuring all the different systems can be more hassle it’s worth, but as of today Piston is offering an alternative. ...
Consultancies Face Pressure as IT Shifts from Utility to Business Technology
In light of all the technology changes that are sweeping through the enterprise today, the role of IT consultancies and services providers is changing. Edward Haigh of Computer Weekly reflected on the trends that are shaping this vertical the most in a recent piece. “Buying habits are shifting in two important ways, with profound implications ...
Accenture Rolls Out General Fund Enterprise Business System
IT consultancy Accenture has recently completed the deployment of the General Fund Enterprise Business System, one of the largest enterprise resource planning setups in the world. The GFEBS will be used to handle the Army’s entire financial and infrastructure assets, as well as to manage cost management and performance data. The ERP setup also includes a ...
Ahead of VMworld 2012: VMware Licensing Changes, New Hardware and Software
VMworld 2012 is just around the corner and already demonstrators, VMware itself, are starting to unveil their updates in hopes of attracting attendees to their booths. One of the biggest news that have been made public so far is that the virtualization giant is pulling the plug on and will be exchange this model for ...
Windows 8: Metro Out, Augment Licensing In
A couple big changes will be introduced with Windows 8 that future users and developers ought to be aware of. For starters, Metro is no longer the designated name for the tile-based interface design that will be featured in the OS. Business Week reports that that Metro AG, a German retailer that sells foodstuff and ...
RNC and Partners Create a “Convention without walls” on YouTube
Ahead of the Republican Party’s Tampa convention on the 27th, organizers are busy putting together a digital “convention without walls” on YouTube with the help of social tools and WiFi. The RNC partnered up with Google, Microsoft and Facebook in order to piece together an entire list of features. Google is the “social platform and ...