Oracle's head of Java security, Milton Smith, has assured users of the software that the vendor will fix its security issues and improve communication efforts. In a conference call with Java User Group leaders, Smith outlined the ...
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Retailers have had another rocky year with more high street closures piling up, while online spend continued to enjoy double digit growth. As consumer spending remained stagnant, companies looked to their digital channels to bolster sales. ...
Enterprises have long lived in a world where storage meant buying in bulk,preparing for possible influxes of data and signing cheques to make even the wealthiest of businesses wince. However,with the growth of cloud computing,a shift has ...
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Analyst group,Quocirca,explains the importance of a holistic approach between a data centre facility and datacentre equipment and assesses the benefits of external data centre services. For many organisations,'IT'is split between two ...
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BP is putting its global messaging infrastructure into a private cloud to benefit from pay-per-use functionality and the flexibility to easily scale up and down the number of users. Over 83,000 staff at BP will be connected to the cloud. ...
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IT often virtualises new applications and workloads by default.Virtualisation is now the norm,deploying a physical server the exception.Yet,a third of companies admit they have not invested in security for their virtual computing ...
As the new chief information officer (CIO) at Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) – the world's largest business travel management company – Kevin O'Connor is looking to bring in a new approach to the company's IT strategy to support ...
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Online dating site eHarmony has also been hit by the theft of millions of passwords,some of which professional networking site LinkedIn confirmed corresponded to members'accounts. The confirmation came after reports that 6.5 million ...
Facebook opened an engineering centre in London today, its first outside the US. The London hub, launched by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, will focus on building Facebook mobile and platform products. "There are 7,000 ...
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High-energy physicists working at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Switzerland are benefiting from a NoSQL database management system that gives them unified access to data from a slew ...
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More than half of IT decision-makers have cited power efficiency as their number one priority in the datacentre for the next three to five years, according to a study of 250 IT executives. The research by Computacenter revealed that ...
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IT security budgets are not being used to provide defence technology in some of the areas the enterprise is most likely to need it in, a study has revealed. About 33% of hacker forum discussions are about training and tutorials for data ...
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Google's new €75m Dublin datacentre facility, which houses computers that provide critical cloud-based services such as the Google search engine, Gmail and Google Maps, is now operational. The datacentre, at Profile Park in ...
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Enterprises want the best value from their investments and will try to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of their datacentres in 2013, according to a study from analyst Ovum. The sustainable datacentre market will see accelerated ...
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Former RBS payment processing division WorldPay will reach a major IT milestone this month on its journey to stand on its own after it was sold in 2010. In December 2010, Advent International and Bain Capital acquired WorldPay for over ...
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