Almost 40%of IT workers lose one day or more a week fixing IT problems and attempting to contact suppliers,and poor customer service from IT suppliers is proving costly to UK businesses,according to research by Rackspace. In its first IT ...
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Citrix Systems and NetApp have jointly developed a software and hardware package optimized for Citrix's ShareFile with StorageZones. ShareFile with StorageZones is Citrix's enterprise-friendly answer to cloud-based file storage and ...
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An IT recruitment expert has criticised government pay thresholds for overseas IT workers in the UK, claiming it groups vastly different jobs together and sets salaries too low, presuming an IT director in the UK can earn as little as ...
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Disconnecting Microsoft heritage Low cost iPhones Deploying MobileIron London Borough of Brent is planning to provide staff with up to 3,000 iPads and iPhones as it phases out Blackberry smartphones. London Borough of Brent will use ...
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The 2011 security breach at Dutch certificate authority(CA)DigiNotar resulted in an extensive compromise and was facilitated in part by shortcomings in the company's network segmentation and firewall configuration,according to Fox-IT,the ...
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IDG News Service-Citrix Systems is giving back to IT departments some control over personal cloud-based storage with ShareFile StorageZones,which allows user content to be stored in enterprises'own data centers,the company announced at the ...
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Frank Modruson joined Accenture in 1987. He worked initially as an analyst on complex IT projects at customers. For the last ten years, he has been Accenture's CIO responsible for the outsourcing giant's own IT operation. Modruson says as ...
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UK employers, across the IT sector, have come together to back a new skills framework from the National Skills Academy. Free for IT professionals to use, the online IT Professional Profile enables individuals to benchmark their skills ...
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Mobile phone group O2 is gearing up to introduce a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) scheme to its operations in Europe and South America, following a successful roll-out in the UK. O2, part of Spain's Telefonica, said the policy has helped ...
In large technology departments,dysfunctional relationships breed like mushrooms in a dank basement.Your dev and ops teams are no longer on speaking terms,while your junior and senior developers can't seem to agree on anything.IT and legal ...
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The need for IT staff in the nation's healthcare facilities is more critical now than two years ago,with two-thirds of healthcare operations in the U.S.reporting a shortage,according to a survey of CIOs(download PDF). The survey,conducted ...
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IT jobs that are advertised for 67 working days or more are seen as opportunities not worth taking according to research from IT recruitment firm Randstad. This compares with the average across other industries of 74 working days. ...
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Citrix Systems has acquired New Zealand-based company Beetil, in an effort to expand the capabilities of its remote support offering GoToAssist, the company said on Monday. As a result of the acquisition, Citrix will be able to offer ...
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There is a long history of users wanting, or needing, different tools to use in the workspace. Until recently, such desires have usually been expressed in terms of informal complaints and/or formal requests to IT to provide new equipment or ...
Tags: IT equipment, IT services, bring-your-own-device policy, personal devices
The Bank of England is to hire 145 IT staff to fill roles in its new financial services watchdog the Prudential Regulatory Authority(PRA). The PRA is tasked with ensuring financial institutions have the appropriate levels of liquidity to ...
Tags: Bank of England, 145 IT staff, Prudential Regulatory Authority