Archive for June, 2015
Tuesday, June 30th, 2015
Open source is ‘only reliable way’ to preserve human history, argues Vatican
OPEN SOURCEÂ is key for humanity to preserve its history in the digital age, Vatican Library CIO Luciano Ammenti has argued. “The Vatican Library is a conservation library. We try to preserve our history. We tried to expand the number of reading rooms available for people that want to use our library,” he said. “But we […]
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Friday, June 19th, 2015
Why e-commerce payment options is complicated in India
E-commerce was supposed to simplify things, but in reality it is getting more complicated. While purchasing online is getting easy, however making payments is painful. First these sites give you a dozen option to make payments, for example they will say if you pay using a third-party wallet you would get 2% off, but if […]
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Thursday, June 18th, 2015
How green is Amazon’s cloud?
One of the drives to Cloud is that it is suppose to be green, but is Amazon Web Services green itself ? Amazon Web Services has been under fire in recent weeks from a group of activist customers who are calling for the company to be more transparent in its usage of renewable energy. In […]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2015
New OpenStack will make it easy to move between private and public clouds
The latest Kilo release of the OpenStack software, made available Thursday, sports new identity (ID) federation capability that, in theory, will let a customer in California use her local OpenStack cloud for everyday work, but if the load spikes, allocate jobs to other OpenStack clouds either locally or far, far away. “With Kilo, for the […]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
10 Key Insights On PC Usage In India
Dell commissioned Greyhound Research to understand PC usage in India. The ‘The PC Users Trends of Emerging India’ survey polled 6000 citizens from 40 cities from Tier 1 to Tier 4, across five user groups broadly defined by age and sociological factors like life aspirations and purchasing capacity. According to a recent study by MAIT and […]
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2015
Alibaba in a ‘cloud wars’ against Amazon, Google, and Microsoft
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is upping its investment in cloud computing in the United States, making it more of a competitor to Amazon, Google, and Microsoft than ever before. Alibaba’s cloud division, Aliyun, has signed a series of new partnerships with the likes of Intel and data center company Equinix to localize its cloud offerings […]
