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Europe’s largest software maker, SAP, has reported its cloud business has been making big strides, with revenues and underlying profit rising. But a strong euro has once again dented quarterly earnings. Germany’s SAP reported Thursday it had been able to expand its thriving licensed software business in the first quarter of the year. Turnover from its cloud-based applications rose by 32 percent year-on-year to 221 million euros ($305.8 million). The Walldorf-based company indicated growth prospects for the segment were still huge, with SAP’s cloud business only accounting for some 6 percent of…

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IDC Health Insights recently revealed Western European healthcare providers’ 2014 clinical mobility trends and investments in a report, How European Healthcare Providers Progress Along the 4Cs of Clinical Mobility (IDCHI #HIOH02W, March 2014). Based on the results of a survey of 179 healthcare IT and non-IT executives in Western Europe, this study analyzes the readiness of Western European providers for mobile, looking at their current adoption and investment plans in key technologies that will enable a comprehensive clinical mobility strategy. IDC Health Insights finds that European healthcare providers are focusing…

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Firm also launches Analytics Platform System Microsoft has unveiled a handful of business intelligence products at its customer event in San Francisco. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, took the stage to announce SQL Server 2014, the Analytics Platform System (APS) and Azure Intelligent Systems Service. SQL Server 2014 This is the 12th edition of the world’s most used database. It marks the first time Microsoft has built in-memory technology into every workload for faster processing. This follows in the footsteps of SAP’s HANA platform. Nadella was keen to play up the importance of…

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Major users of OpenSSL need to flash cash to avoid more bugs One of the founders of OpenSSL has slammed the industry for not giving the project more financial support in the wake of the Heartbleed disaster. Steve Marquess, OpenSSL Software Foundation president said in a blog post that the OpenSSL needed money for half a dozen full-time employees rather than the one it has currently. Donations have been coming into the OpenSSL Software Foundation after last week’s discovery of a major flaw in OpenSSL, dubbed Heartbleed, but these have been mostly from…

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Recently the public has become aware of Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL software, which is mostly used online for encryption of traffic between the clients (PC, tablet, smartphone) and server (Apache server is used by more than a half of all websites online).  We were interested to find out whether the customers who use domestic hosting providers were protected. We asked our largest hosting provider EUnet several key questions and these were answered by Aleksandar Jovičić, Senior System Engineer, who holds a position of Linux Team Manager in EUnetHosting. Internet ogledalo: To…

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The following post is from Brad Smith, General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Legal and Corporate Affairs at Microsoft. This is an important week for the protection of our customers’ privacy. The European Union’s data protection authorities have found that Microsoft’s enterprise cloud contracts meet the high standards of EU privacy law. This ensures that our customers can use Microsoft services to move data freely through our cloud from Europe to the rest of the world. Building on this approval, we will now take proactive steps to expand these legal…

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New integrated system provides rapid foundation for trusted cloud deployments IBM  announced a series of new enterprise cloud offerings for the mainframe which will help clients and service providers reduce the cost of operations and rapidly deploy trusted cloud services with mainframe technology. Today’s announcement includes the first System z-based integrated system offering, the IBM Enterprise Cloud System. The new IBM Enterprise Cloud System provides an integrated platform, built upon open standards, for clients and service providers looking to rapidly build out a trusted cloud environment capable of supporting mission-critical workloads.  Additionally, a new flexible…

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Redmond giant pulls update after discovery of bug making it unsuitable for enterprises Microsoft has stopped business users from downloading its Windows 8.1 update because of a bug. The software giant confirmed the move on its Windows Server Update Services blog, and said it was because the update caused some PCs to stop scanning against Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 Service Pack 2. Although Microsoft hasn’t revealed how many companies were affected by the glitch, it said only PCs running WSUS 3.2 on Windows Server 2003 (SP2 and R2 SP2) and Windows Server…

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Virtualisation giant claims moves to cut cost of virtual desktops are starting to pay off VMware claims the user experience problems and cost barriers that previously put business users off adopting virtual desktops have now been overcome. The virtualisation giant made the declaration during a press briefing to discuss the imminent launch of its Horizon 6 desktop virtualisation offering. The product’s aim is to provide IT departments with a means of delivering and managing desktops and applications across a wide range of devices in the workplace with ease. Horizon 6…

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Dell has announced new networking solutions to help customers deliver faster results, maximize efficiency and modernize and transform operations in scale-out and cloud-based environments. New products introduced include the Dell Networking Z9500, an energy-efficient, highest density per rack unit, and only pay-as-you-grow 10/40 GbE data center core switch available today. The new Active Fabric Controller and efforts to accelerate Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) solutions into the sector through industry consortiums and collaboration with industry partners such as Red Hat also can help customers transform and modernize data center infrastructures. Dell is helping customers upgrade…

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