Adding to the popularity of its Relational Database Service (RDS) with MySQL, Amazon Web Services will soon add support for Oracle databases under RDS. – Amazon Web Services has announced that it
plans to make Oracle Database 11g available via the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon
RDS), during the second quarter of 2011.
Amazon
RDS is a Web service that makes it easier to set up, operate and scale a
relational database in the cloud. …
Ravi Saxena has been appointed regional director, Service Provider business, Asia Pacific wef January 2011
Work experience: VP, Service Provider Business Development, Cisco Systems, India
NASA Shared Services Center is using RightNow CX as part of its cloud effort to improve the Website experience as well as to cut costs for maintaining live phone operators. – NASA has moved its citizen-support center to the RightNow Secure Government
Cloud, RightNow Technologies said Jan. 27. The support site will be using the
RightNow CX customer experience platform to improve Website efficiency, the
company said.
The NASA Shared
Services Center
is a public/privat…
Virtela adds Cloud Accelerator, a new service to its cloud services portfolio that optimizes network traffic for data centers on any public cloud environment. – Virtela expanded its cloud services portfolio with a new WAN acceleration
service for customers utilizing public clouds for their data centers, the
company said Jan. 26.
Similar to the WAN Acceleration service Virtela launched in the summer,
Cloud Accelerator speeds up application performance be…
Integrated mobile telephony major Bharti Airtel Ltd said Thursday that it is not a price point player though there may be price play in the company’s strategy to gain market share in the 3G service segment. “There are market segments that have different needs. Pricing plans to have to meet that. But we are not [...]
The platform includes a patch management solution aimed at securing virtual and physical infrastructure. – Virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions specialist VMware
announced the general availability of Go Pro, a cloud service designed
to enable small to medium-size businesses to consolidate,
control and secure their physical and virtual IT infrastructure. Go
Pro is available by subscriptio…
IT departments are often simultaneously faced with two requirements: the immediate need to facilitate self-service for IT and business service requests and the long-term goal of developing an appropriate road map for their cloud technologies. Automation can be crucial to provisioning and orchestrating resources across the total environment, including any physical, virtual and cloud-based infrastructures. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Ryan Shopp explains how to automate IT service delivery to better fulfill strategic, operational and tactical demand. – The
primary objective of most IT departments in moving to a dynamic data
center is to automate 80 percent of existing requests so that they can
be fulfilled with minimal staff intervention, while ensuring that the
other 20 percent (which are typically more complex and custom) can be
given the a…
Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to provide businesses with large-scale bulk e-mail messaging in the cloud. – Amazon Web
Services Jan. 25 launched a bulk e-mail service for businesses and developers,
providing a messaging option for the cloud-computing provider’s arsenal of
Web-based services.
AWS intends
Amazon SES (Amazon Simple Email Service) as an alternative to the thorny work
of building a custo…
Telcom firms have launched a major advertising, marketing and promotional blitz to attract new and existing customers after the government launched a pan-India scheme that allows them to switch operators while retaining the numbers. Although mobile number portability may not be a big game changer for the industry, it is certainly proving to be a [...]
The new 2.4 release of Nasuni Filer includes a native data migration service that can move large data sets to the cloud while preserving a customer’s existing ACLs and permissions. – Cloud systems gateway provider Nasuni on Jan. 20 announced a new migration
service for its Nasuni Filer, which is designed to move existing file server
data more efficiently to selected cloud storage providers.
Nasuni Filer is a virtual NAS file server/front end that runs on VMware and
uses pu…
Radio Television of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina (RTVFBiH) has canceled its radio and TV news service, Banja Luka-based daily Nezavisne Novine reports.
RTVFBiH Board of Directors has decided to cancel the news service “although this is the basic function of public broadcasters according to the lawâ€, the daily writes.
It’s the curse of every business. Someone will be displeased with their purchase or service and call to either complain or request product or service information. Responding to such complaints and inquiries takes valuable time and resources. Having the right help desk software in place can make a huge difference to the effectiveness of your customer support services.
The free consumer service unifies all key channels–voice, text, chat, video, social media, e-mail, fax and content sharing–and brings them into a single user interface that can be accessed by virtually any type of connected device. – Facebook recently made headlines with its approach to unifying messaging e-mail, chat and texting and making it possible to respond to any of those types of messages through its new Messages service with any device the user wants. It remains to be seen if that’s going to turn into a profit center fo…
Modern companies can now fully optimize their field force operations by using the latest field service management software. This kind of solution greatly minimizes errors in service delivery and reduces lag time. It can boost your companys profitability as your field operations become more efficient in delivering services to customers and clients. Efficient utilization of service management software solutions provides concrete benefits for your company.
News Analysis: AT&T lags behind other carriers as it prepares its high-speed network for eventual launch. But it says it will start rolling out 4G LTE service in mid-2011. – AT amp;T,
playing catch-up to Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile, announced at the Consumer
Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it will begin rolling out its 4G LTE network
sometime in mid-2011 and in the meantime will continue to finish its existing
3G HSPA+ network.
The
carrier, still struggli…
Microsoft claims it restored Hotmail e-mails and service to affected users although complaints about missing messages still persisted on Jan. 3. –
Microsoft is still working to fix an issue that deleted Hotmail users
e-mail. The problem had led to widespread consternation over the weekend, with complaints
about missing e-mail and new messages moved to the Deleted folder.
Many affected users were quick to post on the Windows
Live Solutio…
A number of spam campaigns containing Rapidshare links point to Trojans and other malware stored on the cloud-based storage site. – Spammers
are using cloud-based storage services to store malware, allowing them to
circumvent e-mail spam filters, according to security experts at Kaspersky Lab
and MX Lab.
Kaspersky
Lab detected the click-fraud Trojan, a variant of the
Trojan-Dropper.Wind32.Drooptroop family, which has bee…
A memorial service was held at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Zagreb on Tuesday evening for Ante Pavelić. The service also mentioned Jure Francetić, commander of the Ustasha Crna Legija (Black Legion).
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is set of designed principle that is basically used in developing phases of systems & integrating components while computing. SOS offers the complete pack of functionalities based interoperable services which are used specially with multiple systems under different business departments. SOA is not only used in business segment, but also for consumer services like enabling web-based applications. SOA has wide range of applications in the field computing especia
