Concurrency, Inc., the 2012 Microsoft Central Region Partner of the Year, announced today an educational event co-sponsored with Microsoft to share knowledge about upcoming major releases of Microsoft enterprise products. The September 13 ...
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Microsoft's most significant update to Windows Azure takes the cloud platform to a different level. Rather than focus on Windows applications and bridging the gap between in-house and cloud-based IT, Microsoft is now offering Azure as ...
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By Clive Longbottom and Rob Bamforth When attempting to maximise the overall value of IT assets through the application of a suitable IT lifecycle management (ITLM) process, the one issue that is found time and time again is how best to ...
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The first wave of devices running BlackBerry 10, Research In Motion’s new smartphone operating system, have entered carrier certification labs around the world, the company has announced. The lab entry allows cellular carriers to ...
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When economic times are hard there is always pressure on budgets in every area of business operations. Indeed justifying any spend at all has become subject to ever more intense scrutiny and in IT this has been reflected by vendors ...
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Half of companies worldwide lack knowledge about potential security threats they may face, a global IT risks survey has revealed. Almost a third of more than 3,000 IT professionals, including 200 from the UK, polled by security firm ...
Using cloud-based solutions for telephony and unified communications (UC) is becoming more accepted in IT departments, according to a survey. The study from Mitel claimed 80% of the 650 IT managers it interviewed earlier this year saw the ...
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IDG News Service-Companies worried about their bills for cloud services have a new--and free--option:Apptio's Cloud Express,which can track usage and costs for cloud services from Amazon Web Services,Microsoft and Rackspace. IT ...
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The new coprocessors are combined with Intel Xeon processor E5 family is expected to increase the computational capabilities over Petascale Chipmaker Intel has introduced the new Xeon Phi coprocessors, which are expected to cater to the ...
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The Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide will map the IT buying cycle of our readership onto relevant editorial that will inform and educate readers and help them towards making the right buying decision. On a three week cycle the publication ...
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Computerworld-The results of a multinational employee survey published today by public research firm Ovum,shows 46.1%of respondents believe their IT shops ignore the use of personal mobile devices for business purposes. The October survey ...
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"I don't think IT realizes how much the way we live life as individuals has completely permeated the enterprise,"says Margaret Dawson,vice president of product management at Symform."This is happening whether you want it to or not." ...
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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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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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As General Motors brings its heavily outsourced IT environment in-house, we examine whether the decision is likely to trigger other companies into similar transitions or whether it will be a one-off. General Motors (GM) announced earlier ...
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