Cisco Systems’s third annual Global Cloud Index forecasts that global cloud traffic will more than quadruple, from 1.2 zettabytes in 2012 to 5.3 ZB in 2017. That works out to about 443 exabytes a month, or about 476 billion GB. ...
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More and more workers around the world are bringing their personal mobile devices to the office daily, and companies appear to be having trouble keeping up with the trend. About 60 percent of organisations acknowledged they either don't ...
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As the consumerisation of IT takes a tighter grip on IT users' daily lives, and BYOD becomes an increasingly common way to work, the importance placed on developments in the devices market has grown, even in the last six months. Further ...
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Enterprises must innovate and adapt to the emerging trends, or be left behind. This was the message imparted by IT solutions provider Dell during the Philippine leg of its Solutions Tour 2013. The company said that cloud computing and ...
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Business executives are increasingly bypassing the IT department and spending their own budgets on technology as "it's too important for their business to leave to IT", says analyst house Forrester. A Forrester report, "Tracking The ...
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Salesforce.com is giving customers and partners access to a new set of tools and services for building mobile applications on its cloud platform. Like most enterprise software vendors, Salesforce.com is trying to cater to a world where ...
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Trader Media Group (TMG), which owns Auto Trader, could replace its iPhone estate with Windows Phones, while Android will not be considered as it "has too many security vulnerabilities". In an exclusive interview with Computing, TMG CIO ...
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SAP on Thursday announced that its Mobility Design Centre had gone global, following increasing demand from custom-built mobile apps that provide consumer-grade experiences. The announcement was made at the CeBit trade show in Hanover, ...
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According to Gartner, by the end of next year, Apple laptops and notebooks will be just as accepted by IT professionals as Windows-based ones. Driven by Apple’s efforts to make its OS X operating system more compatible with the ...
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A selection of CIOs were honoured as the top 50 in the region today at CNME’s annual CIO 50 Awards and Forum event at The Address Hotel, Marina, in Dubai. The award ceremony recognises the head decision maker of 50 organisations who ...
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Under the helm of its new CEO, Steve Bennett, Symantec last week outlined a re-organisation intended to lead to a leaner company and a new range of security and back-up services and products. These products would be built primarily on ...
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Shares in Canadian smartphone manufacture Research In Motion (RIM) reached a 13-month high on Monday, a week before the firm launches BlackBerry 10. Toronto-listed stock prices for RIM were up as much as almost 18 per cent on Monday, ...
Over half of the UK’s business IT networks (51 percent) were breached during 2012 due to employees using their personal devices at work, according to research carried out by Virgin Media Business. Some 500 British CIOs were ...
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Considerations for supporting consumer devices in the workplace There is a growing realisation that desktop computing is no longer simply about IT providing a set of tools for employees.Consumer technology is more advanced than desktop ...
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The internet is revolutionising the newspaper industry, and for the publisher of the Daily Mail and Metro, it is having the same effect on IT strategy. David Henderson, CIO at A&N Media, says the publisher’s websites attract 100 ...
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