Frank Baitman, the CIO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was at the Amazon Web Services conference here praising the company’s services. His talk was on the verge of becoming a long infomercial, when he ...
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Microsoft has backtracked on its decision to prevent software developers gaining early access to Windows 8.1, the updated version of the Windows 8 operating system, following an outcry from developers. In August, Microsoft revealed that ...
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Guardian Life Insurance, a mutual life insurer and a provider of employee benefits, has appointed Caitlin Pincus as senior vice president of Strategy & Guardian Labs and Dean Del Vecchio as senior vice president and chief information ...
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The National Audit Office, the spending watchdog, has described the government's welfare reforms as "overambitious" and hindered by the "limited functionality" of IT systems. It follows Department for Work and Pensions announcing further ...
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Vodafone and HSBC have decided to extend their 20-year telecommunications partnership by another two years. The multi-million pound deal will see Vodafone continue to manage the mobile communications of over 21,000 HSBC employees until ...
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Vodafone and O2 have begun rolling out 4G [LTE] mobile data services in three UK cities. O2's services currently include London, Leeds and Bradford, while Vodafone is restricting coverage to parts of London for now. Further reading O2 ...
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The top two tiers of IT leadership–the CIO's direct reports and their direct reports-do many things well, such as vendor management and team building, according to?a study by the CIO Executive Council. But when it comes to ...
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The New York Times website was unavailable to its readers yesterday afternoon in the US, after a cyber attack on the organisation's web host, Melbourne IT. Twitter, which uses Melbourne IT as a domain name registrar, was also affected by ...
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ProSight Specialty Insurance has chosen iPartners’ business intelligence and data warehouse technologies, to offer better business analytics and data management, common tools across the enterprise, and speedy value through SaaS ...
The New York Times blamed a prolonged website outage on Tuesday on a hacking attack at the company's Australia-based domain name registrar, Melbourne IT. A story published by The Times on Tuesday afternoon quoted the company's CIO, Marc ...
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Mobile management company MobileIron has announced its Anyware enterprise mobility management platform, and the product's integration with Salesforce.com's existing AppExchange platform. Following an IDC report stating that one billion ...
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IT managers at SMEs will be made redundant in the next five years and replaced by a financial director or CIO, according to the MD of data centre provider City Lifeline, Roger Keegan. Keegan told Computing that in-house data centres are ...
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The world's number one PC manufacturer Lenovo has announced that a replacement Start button for Windows 8 will be installed on many of its devices, beginning in the next few weeks. Windows 8 has struggled to make an impact in businesses, ...
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Financial software expert Lev Lesokhin, who works for analysis and measurement software provider CAST Software, believes that stock exchanges are playing Russian roulette with their trading systems. "We're loading up a bunch of bullets or ...
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If?Australian companies were to virtualize their severs and physical infrastructure, $6 billion in costs could be saved from now to 2020, according to a new whitepaper by research firm IDC. In the VMware sponsored whitepaper,?Vision 2020: ...
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