Melissa Jun Rowley describes how five industry giants are supporting education around the world. To make digital more accessible, and to enable people to stay competitive in the global economy, a number of tech and media companies are working to level the online playing field all around the world. Here are five of them. 1….
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Teaching an old dog an old trick – Mainframes in the Clouds
According to Bruce Hoard more and more x86 workloads are returning to the big box. And with good reason. In his Mainframe Clouds Roll In article, Hoard talks about the factors that make mainframes great hardware for the cloud. From their time-sharing beginnings, mainframes were built from the ground up to perform work for different…
Microsoft Open Day in Jordan focuses on Cloud Computing.
(MENAFN – Jordan Times) More than 1,500 IT professionals and experts will convene in the capital next month to explore the latest innovations in cloud computing technology at the 2011 Microsoft Open Day. The two-day event, which starts November 1, provides an opportunity to showcase advanced innovations and IT business solutions and exchange views on…
BLOG: Cloud computing – Why semantics matter
By Andrew Milroy, Computerworld In earlier posts, I have written about how the term, private cloud, offers little value and is arguably a term that is used by legacy IT suppliers to exploit concerns about their customers migrating computing resources to the (public) cloud. Is the private cloud simply a data centre with lipstick? In other…
Gartner’s Top 10 IT challenges include exiting baby boomers, Big Data
ORLANDO — In Gartner’s list of the top 10 trends in IT infrastructure and operations are multiple threats and opportunities for data center operations. Among the threats is the exodus of baby boomers and the emergence of a younger generation that’s been less loyal to corporate employers and are more likely to move to another…
Judge Refuses to Exclude Troublesome Google Email
Google has lost its appeal to keep a potentially damaging email away from the jury in the company’s legal fight with Oracle over Java. Judge William Alsup, who is hearing the case, on Thursday upheld an earlier ruling that the email should remain part of the court record. The email, written by a Google engineer,…