Payments giant Visa Europe has had its communications network upgraded by telecoms giant BT, in a move that BT claims has enabled the firm to process about €2m of payments every minute. The network provides connectivity for Visa ...
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International alternative assets advisory firm, MVision, has deployed Tintri VMstore, developed by Time Inc., to support its virtual desktop infrastructure. MVision is said to be benefiting from faster remote access to the company network ...
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Norfolk County Council is seeking bidders for an IT framework that could be worth up to £100m. The council is seeking an agreement with a single operator for a duration that "exceeds four years". In the Official Journal of the ...
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Norfolk County Council is seeking bidders for an IT framework that could be worth up to £100m. The council is seeking an agreement with a single operator for a duration that "exceeds four years". Further reading Wolverhampton ...
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Citrix CEO Mark Templeton has said that banning employees from working from home is an ineffective way of preventing slacking on the job. Citrix CEO Mark Templeton has said that banning employees from working from home is an ineffective ...
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Channel 4 has a bring your own device (BYOD) scheme in place but is yet to find a mobile device management (MDM) solution that "truly works", according to its CISO, Brian Brackenborough. In an interview with Computing, Brackenborough ...
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Cloud Desktop is an entire computer system including operating system and applications in the Cloud, accessible via any browser and without any plug-in or software installation. Mikogo, the global provider of online collaboration ...
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The prestigious itSMF (IT Service Management Forum) UK Awards 2012 saw Marval customer Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) ICT pick up the IT Service Innovation of the Year Award for RoamKey; a stand-alone operating system stored ...
European businesses will only need three quarters of a desk per employee by 2020 due to the impact of remote working. According to a survey of almost 2,000 senior IT decision makers commissioned by Citrix, large organisations are already ...
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More employees of the ‘Generation Y’ age group are ducking IT policies to use their personal devices and applications at work than corporations realise. A study from Cisco, conducted by InsightExpress, showed 53% of IT ...
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More than half of the peak-time traffic to the London 2012 Olympic Games' web servers came from mobile devices – a huge demonstration of the consumer switch to mobile at the highest–profile sporting event of the year. Users ...
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Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is set to lose its stranglehold on the government mobile market, as momentum to broaden the number of smartphone suppliers in Whitehall gathers pace. Currently, Blackberry is the only smartphone ...
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Almost half of the businesses in the European Union (EU) have provided employees with a portable device to give them the opportunity to work remotely. This was the main finding of a new study from Eurostat – the EU's statistical ...
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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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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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