Texas: Dell has reached a deal to buy cloud computing company Wyse Technology for an undisclosed sum. Dell wants to expand its desktop virtualisation capabilities and provide new vehicles for existing products. Wyse, based in San Jose, California, shipped more than 1 million units last year and over 200 million people use its products daily. The company has more than 180 patents issued or pending. The deal, which is expected...
10:41 AM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: Hewlett-Packard (HP) is reportedly all set to come up with its cloud computing service in next two months, which is said to be similar to Amazon Web services that delivers a set of services, which together form a computing platform "in the cloud". According to a report from The New York Times, the cloud computing service that HP is planning to roll out will have more business-oriented features....
01:48 PM, Mar 11, 2012
CHENNAI: Microsoft Internationals president Jean Philippe Courtois on Tuesday called on Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa at the Secretariat and expressed his companys wish to extend core progammes, including setting up of cloud computing centres in the State. Courtois also discussed about further investments in the fields of education, e-governance, etc.During the meeting with the Chief Minister, Courtois informed that Microsoft was desirous of extending their core programmes, such as faculty...
10:36 AM, Mar 07, 2012
San Francisco: Dropbox unveiled on Thursday a new photo uploading feature for Android smartphones, potentially sharpening its competition with Google, Apple, and a host of other companies battling to rule the burgeoning market for online storage solutions. With a single click, the feature will allow users to wirelessly upload high-resolution pictures straight from their smartphones onto the virtual "cloud," where the files can be accessed from any computer or mobile...
06:15 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Washington: A US software industry report on Wednesday chided Brazil, China and India for policies it said threatened the future of cloud computing, but also took aim at developed countries such as Germany that did well on its inaugural scorecard. The Business Software Alliance, which represents US industry heavyweights such as Microsoft Corp, said Brazil finished last in its survey of 24 countries, earning only 35.1 points out a possible...
03:57 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Beijing: China is building a world class R&D centre for cloud computing in the capital, which officials hope would bring about USD 7.9 billion investment. The centre is being built in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (BDA), local authorities said. Cloud computing industry - that provides web storage services besides that of computation and data access, is expected to grow significantly in the future and China is planning to offer...
12:04 PM, Dec 13, 2011
San Francisco: Dropbox, the company behind the popular virtual file cabinet, is branching out to small and medium-sized businesses with the new service "Dropbox for Teams." The San Francisco-based company allows people to access documents, photos and videos from several different places such as laptops, smartphones and computers provided they have downloaded Dropbox on each device. A certain amount of storage is free though the company charges a user for...
06:06 PM, Oct 27, 2011
New Delhi: India's spending on green IT and sustainability initiatives will double from $35 billion currently to $70 billion in 2015 as the have found their way into the IT industry across India, research firm Gartner said Monday. Green IT or green computing is the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems with minimal or no impact on the environment. The goals...
07:59 AM, Sep 20, 2011
Taipei: Acer Inc, the world's No.2 PC maker, will buy US based cloud computing firm iGware Inc for $320 million, looking to move into the potentially lucrative cloud market and add value to its main hardware business. Acer also said on Thursday it will pay a further $75 million in a performance based payout, it said. "This (the acquisition) is the right direction for Acer," said Tracy Tsai, analyst at...
01:13 PM, Jul 21, 2011
Bangalore: As the next technology wave, cloud computing by enterprises has the potential to create about 100,000 new jobs in India, a study said Tuesday. "Of the projected $4.5-billion total cloud computing market in India by 2015, private cloud will account for $3.5 billion, generate about 100,000 additional jobs and save about 50 percent of cost of IT operations for Indian enterprises," the study "Private Cloud Landscape in India", by...
01:33 PM, Jul 20, 2011
Seattle: Microsoft Corp is making its biggest move into the mobile, Internet-accessible world of cloud computing this week, as it takes the wraps off a revamped online version of its hugely profitable Office software suite. The world's largest software company is heaving its two-decade old set of applications - including Outlook email, Excel spreadsheets and SharePoint collaboration tools - into an online format so that customers can use them on...
09:04 AM, Jun 28, 2011
San Francisco: Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs returns on Monday to the stage at San Francisco's Moscone center to take the wraps off what investors hope will be the next source of growth for the world's most valuable technology company. Jobs, who has been on medical leave for months and last took the stage in March to present the iPad 2, will unveil the iCloud, a Web-based service that...
02:36 PM, Jun 06, 2011
Taipei: The recent high-profile hacking of Google's Gmail service and Sony's Playstation gaming network is threatening to slow the take-off of the next big thing in the computing space - the cloud. Computer companies will need to collaborate to work on addressing security issues to boost confidence in cloud computing, where data and software is stored on servers and accessed via the Internet, especially in the corporate space where the...
12:34 PM, Jun 04, 2011
New York: Even before Apple launches iCloud later this week, the Cupertino-based company has signed deals with major records labels for the new music service. Warner Music Group, EMI Music Group, Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment are among those which reportedly inked the deals Thursday, according to bloggers. Apple boss Steve Jobs will unveil iCloud at the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco Monday. Bloggers say...
12:40 PM, Jun 03, 2011
San Francisco: Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs leaps back into the spotlight next week to showcase the iPad maker's latest software and is widely expected to unveil an online music storage and streaming service. Apple shares rose 3 per cent on news that Jobs, along with a team of executives, will deliver the keynote speech at a June 6 conference showcasing the iPad-maker's latest software and products. But it was...
07:48 AM, Jun 01, 2011
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