IDG News Service - Shifting ANZ Banking Group from an Australian and New Zealand centric bank to a super-regional Asia Pacific financial services entity while implementing new technology is Anne Weatherston's top priority for the next five ...
Lack of security in the cyber world is one of the most significant threats faced by the civilized world, according to Jarno Limnell, director of cyber security at security firm Stonesoft. "But it seems that we have to experience a ...
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Gartner is urging CIOs to change their IT budget to support a nexus of change arising from cloud, social, big data and mobile technology. The analyst expects traditional IT will have to split its budget to support these emerging ...
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CIO - Banking is typically regarded as a boring service, maybe even a necessary evil. So you might be surprised to find out that customers have strong feelings when they perform banking transactions. In a joint project between its IT ...
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When customers buy Microsoft SQL Server 2008 retail products, they will receive a free tablet. Depending on order size, customers will have their choice of one of the following: iPad Mini, Microsoft Surface, Google Nexus 7, or Amazon Kindle ...
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During the Gartner Symposium, earlier in November the analyst firm predicted that IT departments will be expanding their budget to support bring-your-own-device (BYOD). As Computer Weekly previously reported, Gartner expects IT budgets ...
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German office supplies manufacturer Sigel GmbH used storage virtualisation to improve the performance of its VMware-based virtual servers and its Oracle database systems. Sigel also cut costs with its storage hypervisor technology. ...
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Safety specialist First Choice Facilities has been fined £18,000 for unlicensed software following completion of an acquisition. First Choice Facilities must also pay an additional £81,000 to buy the sufficient software ...
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Enterprise IT on the go with Windows 8 Windows 8 and the XP legacy What next for Windows 8 With the launch of Windows 8,Microsoft is taking a step into the unknown.In a bid to stop its lucrative PC operating system(OS)business losing ...
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Businesses are opening themselves up to security threats by failing to manage bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programmes properly. According to a study of 4,000 workers, carried out by Ovum, 80% of corporate BYOD schemes are "inadequately ...
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Windows as a service Citrix helps SMEs cope with proliferation and remote support Citrix's position in an evolving and competitive market Virtual Microsoft Widows: A hostage to fortune? Budgets remain tight at enterprise end of market ...
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The CIO of professional services firm PwC UK,Dominique Moreau,has hit back at remarks made by his Groupama Insurances counterpart Jem Eskenazi that the CIO role is set to disappear in the next 15 to 20 years,by declaring that"the CIO role ...
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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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Security is still the primary barrier to adopting mobile business applications, a study has found. More than three-quarters of the 300 UK firms polled said they planned to adopt mobile business applications in the next 12 months. But ...
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Wi-Fi for Benetton staff and customers Easy Wi-Fi roll-out for Benetton Cloud-based management control cuts costs Benetton strikes a balance with Wi-Fi marketing The future for Wi-Fi at Benetton The High Street has always been a hub of ...