IBM bets £200 million on UK Big Data
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Xero ups the ante for online accounting
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Telstra admits Pacnet breach
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OpenStack interoperability and federated identity
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Tableau Online 9.0 accelerates analytics
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This release comes a month after Tableau released its core...
Oracle brings Database as a Service to OpenStack
Oracle and Mirantis have announced that they will collaborate to bring Database as a Service (DBaaS) to OpenStack.
The plan is to enable Oracle Multitenant on the OpenStack Murano application catalogue making...
Mirantis to gain Platform as a Service
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CTERA releases enterprise Data Services Platform v5
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ERP +CRM : A new FrankenCloud?
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NetSuite dumps Amazon for Microsoft
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Is this the start of something big in Lawtech
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