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SAP strikes alliance with Lenovo to push Hana in China
German enterprise software giant SAP SE is hoping to crack the Chinese market through a tie up with Lenovo Group Ltd. that will see the two firms develop a number of cloud offerings for…
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Cloud providers urge reforms for “fundamentally broken” FedRAMP
The FedRAMP Fast Forward advocacy group, which represents Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, IBM and several other big technology firms, as well as a number of federal lawmakers and agencies, has hit out at the government’s process…
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Juniper steps up SDN efforts with BTI Systems acquisition
Juniper Networks Inc. is to expand its stake in the software-defined networking space by acquiring Massachusetts-based BTI Systems Inc., which specializes in building cloud and metro networking gear. Juniper announced its intentions yesterday via…
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Troubled Toshiba set to go all-in on NAND flash
Troubled Toshiba Corp., is set to exit the peripheral chip-making business and possibly even the disk business too, as it struggles to recover from a $1.3 billion accounting scandal that left the firm reeling…
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EMC set to suffer as cloud storage spending ramps up
The storage infrastructure industry has proven to be more resistant to change than most IT market segments, but it isn’t invulnerable to the disruptive force known as the cloud. Evidence of this comes via…
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Wi-Next & IBM bring the Industrial Internet to the factory floor
Industrial Internet “edgeware” provider Wi-Next has scored something of a coup by teaming up with IBM to add its analytics capabilities to its industrial quality control and maintenance systems. The Palo Alto, California-based startup…
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U.K. Chief scientist Sir Mark Walport advocates Bitcoin blockchain adoption
The U.K. government’s chief scientist is urging ministers there to consider adopting Bitcoin’s blockchain technology for use in the private and public sectors, saying it could be used as a more reliable way to…
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China could be about to launch its own digital currency
China is reportedly considering launching its own virtual currency, having clamped down on Bitcoin use in the country. According to a report in The Register, China’s central bank is looking at virtual currencies as…
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GPS-equipped vultures lead Peru’s war on trash
Authorities in the Peruvian capital city Lima have a new weapon in their war against illegal waste dumpers. They’ve taken to equipping vultures with GPS tracking devices and, soon, GoPro cameras, in an effort…
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Google pitches Cloud Dataflow to the Apache Software Foundation
Google is making its first major open-source move of the year by offering up its Dataflow technology to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) as an incubator project. Google is hoping to spur more collaborative…