Werner Knoblich,Vice President and General Manager for EMEA, Red Hat Red Hat last week announced that it is set to host a 13-city tour of one-day events throughout Europe and the Middle East. The firm said that it hopes to share ...
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The UK faces a shortage of 33,300 skilled IT and tech workers by 2050 due to a skills deficit, an ageing workforce and restrictive migration policies, according to recruitment firm Randstad Technologies. The firm based its findings on the ...
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In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management system. The next version of SQL Server will feature the ability to host database tables ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two new EC2 instances for applications and analytics workloads, as well as AWS Data Pipeline, a web service that allows enterprises to move data across various systems Launching the new Elastic ...
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Nicira is a start-up right out of the Silicon Valley playbook with a $1.26 billion ending, in just five years. VMware's decision, announced Monday, to buy this network virtualization company will likely be cited as a starring example of ...
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In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management system. The next version of SQL Server will feature the ability to host database tables ...
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Major retail hypermarket chain REAL, part of Metro Group, worked with IBM to launch a new electronic coupon system throughout its 320 German stores. This first-of-a-kind digital coupon system, developed with IBM Research scientists, ...
Paul Coby faces his second Christmas as IT director at department store chain John Lewis. Since joining the retailer in March 2011, after many years as CIO at British Airways, he has embraced what he calls the "retail revolution" brought ...
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European IT firm Bull SAS tailor-makes private cloud with security assured The research labs at Bull SAS – the European IT company that helps public sector organisations to optimise their IT architecture – handle development ...
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IT spending in the EMEA region will reach $1.154 trillion in 2013, a 1.4 percent increase from 2012 projected spending of $1.138 trillion, according to Gartner. Despite the ongoing economic malaise, Gartner sees pockets of growth in IT in ...
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Nearly three quarters of enterprises in Europe are planning to increase spending on software-as-a-service (SaaS) over the next two years, as adoption of cloud-based solutions gathers pace across the globe. According to an new survey by ...
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New York Life Insurance Company has promoted Michael Secolo as its senior vice president and chief technology officer, who will report to senior vice president and chief information officer Sue Ericksen. In his current role, Secolo will ...
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After a lengthy and often heated consultation, the government has finally released its new open standards principles intended to level the supplier playing field and avoid product lock-in. But is the document a blueprint for a radically ...
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British Gas chief information officer(CIO)David Cooper likes to keep things low-key.But the scale of his multimillion-pound technology transformation,and the impact his team's work has on customer spending,makes his one of the ...
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European regulations for the gambling sector,launching new products and driving revenue growth as a recently floated public company put enormous pressure on the IT team at Betfair. But chief technology officer(CTO)Tony McAlister,in post ...
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