Lenovo claims seven world records
Since acquiring the IBM System x division in October last year, Lenovo has been keen to prove that this was a smart investment. With the launch of the Intel Xeon E7...
ERP +CRM : A new FrankenCloud?
AddonSoftware® and GoldMine® have formed a strategic partnership bringing together two customer bases that each believes is fertile ground for each others software. In the announcement there is however little reason...
NetSuite dumps Amazon for Microsoft
Netsuite has signed a strategic cloud alliance with Microsoft that will see it move all of its cloud and on-premises deployments to Azure by the end of 2015. This is a...
Intel takes on IBM with Xeon E7 v3
Intel has announced the latest versions of its Xeon E7 4800/8800 v3 processor families. The processors are targeted at customers who are doing big data, real-time analytics and mission critical computing.
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SAP S/4HANA takes to HP Helion Cloud
At SAP SAPPHIRE NOW being held in Orlando, Florida, SAP and HP have announced that SAP S/4HANA will be deployed on the HP Helion Managed Cloud.
HP has also been awarded premier...
IBM gives SAP HANA a POWER8 boost
IBM has announced a series of Power Systems Solution Editions for the SAP HANA platform. This new announcement extends IBM support for SAP from x86 to its POWER8 processor. It also...
Equinix provides ExpressRoute for Office 365
Equinix has announced that it will be deploying Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute in Q3, 2015 via the Equinix Cloud Exchange. The offer is targeted specifically at users of Microsoft Office 365 and...
Deduplication upgrades to improve data protection
Dell has announced new software for its DR series of deduplication appliances. The release includes a raft of new features such as encryption and Network Data Management Protocol support. Dell also...
AWS reveals all…but what the heck is cloud anyway?
Last week Amazon published financials for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) business for the first time. These showed that the old man of public cloud computing is a $5bn business with...
Japanese elderly get connected with iPads
Japan Post Group, IBM and Apple have announced that they to deliver up to 5 million iPads by 2020 to Japan's rapidly growing elderly population. Each iPad will have a range...