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To be officially launched in October, Fujitsu says that the new project will use remote field sensors all over Japan. A cloud-based platform will be provided in order to help Japan’s old farms. Named as “Akisai”, the service will…
By Molly Stamos Big Data is a "Wild Wild West" movement, with companies in all industries trying to figure out whether to invest in these supercharged analytics projects, and how. The CEO wants the game-changing results he's been…
Global spending on IT products and services will grow 3% in 2012 to 3.6 trillion dollars, according to figures presented by research firm Gartner. The forecast is higher than the 2.5% growth projected to Gartner released earlier…
IT giant Apple has recently come under fire for failing to fulfill its commitment to promote green practices in cloud computing , judging by the company's decision to stop submitting their products to the Electronic Product…
Cloud computing is a $16.5B market and expected to have an annual growth rate of 27% over the next four years even though the rest of the economy is experiencing a downturn. Chief among the reasons why cloud computing is being…
The Open Source solutions provider announced the availability of Red Hat Storage Server 2.0, an open source storage scalable solution designed to manage unstructured data. Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 is the first system to combine…
Dell finally acquires Quest Software when it agreed to pay $28 per share. The bid was 50 cents more than its previous bid. For this transaction, Dell has agreed to pay $2.36 billion to acquire Quest. Last March, Insight Venture…
Not to make light of the entire situation, but it seems that digital clouds are not completely immune to problems caused by real clouds, as severe storms that swept across the United States last June wiped out power for more than…
Mobile computing, social networking, connected devices and the desire to share contents across multiple devices will inspire consumers to store their digital data in the cloud. Gartner, the research firm, has come out with one…
The European Commission's panel on privacy is planning to promote the concept of cloud computing and aims to endorse it as legal under the continent's privacy law. In line with this, the commission also encourages organizations…