IT operating model takes to the Cloud

Apptio has announced the public availability of the industry’s first standard operating model for managing the business of IT and its next major SaaS release. The Apptio TBM Unified Model (ATUM), standardizes IT cost and data models and is now integrated into the Apptio platform and its applications, creating the first standard operating model for IT. New features also include the aggregation and allocation of on-premises and cloud services including Amazon Web Services billing data,...

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LeaseWeb introduces Flat Fee CloudStack-powered Private Cloud in Germany

LeaseWeb has announced another international expansion of its plug-and-play private cloud hosting platform, LeaseWeb Private Cloud, powered by Apache CloudStack®. The new solution, launched by LeaseWeb Germany and located in their data center in Frankfurt, offers flat fee user access to dedicated pools of cloud resources.

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ObjectRocket by Rackspace adds Redis Data Store

Rackspace has announced the addition of Redis to ObjectRocket,™ its managed data service. ObjectRocket for Redis simplifies application development by providing instant-on, high performance, highly available Redis instances.

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Silver Peak sets sights on new enterprise network

Silver Peak has unveiled Unity, a ‘groundbreaking’ intelligent wide area network (WAN) fabric that unifies the enterprise network with the public cloud. Unlike traditional WAN optimisation solutions, Unity correlates information about cloud services and Internet “weather” to intelligently route traffic over a secure, optimal path. By keeping SaaS and IaaS traffic on the Unity fabric, IT gains an ability it’s never had: the ability to monitor and control...

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UK retailer uses Cloud Services to scale TV and Social Media campaigns

December is the most important month of the year for UK retailer Marks and Spencer, and its advertising campaigns are the cornerstone of its holiday strategy. When its 2013 primetime Christmas TV ad campaign encouraged people to visit a dedicated website, it was vital it could cope with the spike in traffic. The retailer created a website using Microsoft Azure as it knew it would cope with the potentially high traffic in addition to saving on the expense of physical servers and internal IT...

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