News about the IT industry.
Amazon have announced that like Linux and Unix, Windows will now be available as a reserved instance.
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Our View: A reserved instance brings more flexibility to the pricing model that can be designed by people using AWS. The Amazon site provides plenty of facts and figures around different usage scenarios. In [...]
The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) has announced its selection of FinancialForce.com a cloud based accounting service to use to automate some of its departmental financial processes.
Our View: There are several interesting points about this:
TMG was an early adopter of Google apps over MS Office and Google’s mail services over Exchange, partly a decision based on [...]
SAP has announced that its recently appointed CEO Mr Apotheker is to step down.
This move has been described as a response to all sorts of ailments within the company. Issues written about in the press include: delays in launching software, a failure to grasp the nettle with software as a service, job cuts, high customer [...]