Microsoft is updating a number of its IT infrastructure and development tools to work more seamlessly with its Azure hosted cloud services, including Windows Server, System Center, Visual Studio and SQL Server. "You can think of all these ...
For the kickoff of Microsoft's annual North American TechEd conference, the company is urging administrators and IT professionals to think of it as the provider of the "Cloud OS." Microsoft announced a sweeping range of updates to its ...
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Western Digital, a company well known for manufacturing consumer and enterprise hard drives, as well as small NAS boxes for the SMB market, is expanding its focus on the latter market with a new line of rack-mount storage systems. Its ...
Shipments of PCs are expected to fall by almost eight per cent this year, as users move towards tablets and smartphones. That's according to research by analysts at IDC, who expect total combined worldwide shipments for desktop and ...
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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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Long hours? Likely. A healthy work-life balance? Probably not. Despite the challenges of working in tech, most IT pros are satisfied with their demanding jobs, according to new survey data. Ninety-five percent are proud they chose IT as a ...
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Windows 8 faces a number of hurdles in the enterprise, but the biggest reason it won't replace the current corporate champion, Windows 7, is simple. "Enterprises just don't see Windows 8 having value," said David Johnson, an analyst with ...
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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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HIPAA and outdated communications devices can make it harder to deliver effective patient care, according to a survey of physicians, hospital administrators and IT pros. The survey by the Ponemon Institute is based on responses from 577 ...
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Fluke Networks has announced a new version of the OptiView XG v10 Network Analysis Tablet that allows users to simultaneously stress test and diagnose network problems in real-time, as well as a new iPhone App, called HeadsUp XG, that ...
The unemployment rate for people at the heart of many tech innovations -- electrical engineers -- rose sharply in the first quarter of this year for reasons that aren't clear. The number of electrical engineering jobs declined by 40,000 ...
Virtualization and cloud services are making it easier for companies to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers, and that is exactly what many organizations are doing. The trend is most prevalent among small and midsize ...
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There are more IT managers working today than two years ago, but their unemployment rate is rising as well. It's a paradox of government data, but there are theories for the apparent discrepancy. The government reported that the ...
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Forrester Research predicts that with the BYOD trend expected to increasingly include laptops as well as smartphones and tablets, the approach to managing such devices is in for some big changes. In its 2013 Mobile Security Predictions ...
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The Hydraulic Institute, and its affiliated Pump Systems Matter education and training organization, have announced dates for the complimentary webinar series on electronic data exchange (EDE) for the pump industry. This session will be ...
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