AWS and Microsoft Azure are building contrasting cloud infrastructure and services platforms. Here's how Azure has expanded from platform services to infrastructure capabilities - and what that means for enterprises.
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If you think Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is everywhere lately, you're not wrong. But when it comes to ERP partnerships, there's a method to Nadella's globetrotting. Here's how Microsoft is changing the modern ERP landscape.
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Data center operators take electricity for granted, but that may have to change, says Maxwell Cooter.
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SAP's Innovations Conference set out to show business users the reality of working with the vendor here and now, rather than spout a glorious future yet to come. That does prompt thoughts of whether the wider infrastructure in which it will have to work, here and now, will be able to stand the strain.
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Nutanix and EMC-VMWare just entered a new phase in the battle to determine who wins in the hyper-converged infrastructure market. Kurt Marko assesses the combatants.
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With the risk of losing more than $100k per minute of downtime, UK retailer John Lewis explains what it took to keep its website up throughout Black Friday
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German toymaker Schleich turns its back on established Master Data Management products in favour of adopting a more flexible approach.
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Automation has been talked about for years and now it is set to make real in-roads into running IT infrastructure, leaving IT staff available to help their business colleagues run their businesses faster, cheaper, more effectively.
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Wait for it, don’t rush, but sure as hell start planning for it. Mobile 5G comms is coming, the infrastructures are being built and you will be able to practice with 1Gbit/sec 4.5G this year if you want.
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Last week we got to meet with Safra Catz, co-CEO Oracle. Here's what she had to say about transformation, development and winning in deals.
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Basic service monitoring is essential for those businesses that rely upon tying together service offerings. Why are services failing to hold and analyze log files?
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It is probably just an `age’ thing, but a conversation with SAP CTO, Irfan Khan, closes off some concerns about the potential for negative human impact from IoT use at work and instead points to good synergy between companies and employees, rather a revival of the `Time-And-Motion’ man.
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HP's two spun-off children have turned in their first quarterly numbers, leaving the respective CEO's making their pitch to the market on progress to date.
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New CEO Douglas Merritt said that he was confident in Splunk’s long-term strategy and spoke said that the company had brought on over 600 new enterprise customers this year.
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Den puts forward the bear case for Walmart's ability to execute on a digital strategy that can overcome its market challenges.
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What's the impact of the Internet of Things on the manufacturing sector? Enormous, according to some of the biggest manufacturers in the world.
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Facebook Live's latest iteration should be exciting in the minds of brand marketers. Why? I see five immediate possibilities.
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The worlds of hardware and software are colliding and the development of leading edge applications will require greater collaboration between designers in each arena
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GPU optimized databases are rapidly moving from science project to business reality. Here's what it means.
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IBM's POWER holds promise for specific workloads - he''s why.
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