ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) has unveiled a framework to help establish confidence in IT processes and controls, while relieving the pain that audit and assurance processes can cause business partners. The ...
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Microsoft customers clamoring for the incorporation of the Start button and menu into Windows 8 will get their wish partially fulfilled in the upcoming update of the OS. Windows 8.1, which will be released in preview mode next month and ...
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Microsoft has completed the first phase of the integration between its enterprise unified communications Lync server and its Skype consumer IM and IP telephony network. The company announced on Wednesday that it's now possible for Lync ...
John Lewis is to launch a new technology apprenticeship scheme this year, which will see the firm further expand its IT department. The aim for the apprenticeship scheme is to train the next generation of IT leaders at John Lewis' head ...
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Firms should encourage their employees to write apps that they think will benefit the company and upload them onto the corporate app store, according to VMware's EMEA chief technologist, Joe Baguley. Baguley, who was speaking at a panel ...
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More IT leaders plan to invest more in technology this year than they did in 2012, according to a recent Tech Poll/Tech Priorities survey conducted by CIO Research. But, before you get too excited, it's only a few more IT executives ...
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The easy upgrades to Windows XP have already been done, migration experts said, predicting that a large number of enterprises will still be running the aged OS a year from now. Microsoft plans to retire Windows XP from all support, ...
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IT leaders at Computing's Big Data Summit 2013 yesterday agreed that social media analysis could benefit them internally as well as externally, and could be the next step for them in order to get the most out of their big data tools. Tony ...
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According to information technology researcher Gartner in a world wide survey looking at business investment Big Data is set to grow exponentially in 2013. A survey of leading IT decision makers indicates 2013 will be the year of Big Data ...
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Computerworld's Premier 100 conference kicked off Monday with a keynote topic that was close to the hearts of many of the 500 IT professionals in attendance: an acronym called VUCA. VUCA first emerged in the 1990s, mainly in military ...
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Software as a service (SaaS) is a reality for IT shops of all shapes and sizes. CIOs and other IT leaders need the tools to manage their sprawling portfolios of SaaS applications with the same rigor they use for on-premise software. Here ...
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According to research firm Gartner, the Middle East and Africa IT infrastructure market is set to reach $3.9 billion in 2013, marking a four percent increase from 2012. The market is up made up of servers, storage and networking ...
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Only 18% of UK IT spending is devoted to innovation. Research from CA Technologies suggests that businesses in the UK must embrace new technologies in order to stay globally competitive. According to the study, the country with the ...
Gartner on Sunday announced the speakers for its first flagship conference in Dubai, called the Gartner Symposium/IT Expo, which will be held from March 5 to 7 at Madinat Jumeirah. The keynote speakers will be Gabor George Burt, an ...
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Exito announced that its 3rd Edition Manufacturing IT Summit would take place on 17th May 2013 in the city of Mumbai. The Summit is aimed at bringing together a forum wherein IT experts from the manufacturing domain can share the top ...