LeaseWeb introduces Flat Fee CloudStack-powered Private Cloud in Germany

LeaseWeb has announced another international expansion of its plug-and-play private cloud hosting platform, LeaseWeb Private Cloud, powered by Apache CloudStack®. The new solution, launched by LeaseWeb Germany and located in their data center in Frankfurt, offers flat fee user access to dedicated pools of cloud resources.

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ObjectRocket by Rackspace adds Redis Data Store

Rackspace has announced the addition of Redis to ObjectRocket,™ its managed data service. ObjectRocket for Redis simplifies application development by providing instant-on, high performance, highly available Redis instances.

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UK retailer uses Cloud Services to scale TV and Social Media campaigns

December is the most important month of the year for UK retailer Marks and Spencer, and its advertising campaigns are the cornerstone of its holiday strategy. When its 2013 primetime Christmas TV ad campaign encouraged people to visit a dedicated website, it was vital it could cope with the spike in traffic. The retailer created a website using Microsoft Azure as it knew it would cope with the potentially high traffic in addition to saving on the expense of physical servers and internal IT...

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Customer satisfaction rises overall

Customer satisfaction drops as customer service agents more frequently use apologetic or polite vocabulary in a conversation, while customers benefit by being polite themselves, according to findings of the quarterly Zendesk Benchmark report released recently.

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MSP boosts disaster recovery capabilities to better protect customer data.
Programme devised to improve understanding for buyers of cloud to launch in December.
NGD data centre’s low latency connections and resilient hybrid infrastructure key to success of...
Start-up pharma R&D organisations benefit from flexible, local informatics support.
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