Outsourcing services giant Accenture has launched an apprenticeship programme in Newcastle, offering 40 places on the three-year programme over the next 12 months. The first 20 apprentices will start in February 2013, with another 20 ...
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Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has announced the availability of the Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage module for its enterprise SAN Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) systems. Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage module is the first hardware ...
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NetApp has no plans to join the fray in the all-flash array market. That’s according to NetApp CTO Jay Kidd, who spoke to Computer Weekly at NetApp’s Insight partner event in Dublin this week. Jay Kidd says NetApp does not ...
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Clustered NAS capability is a major event theme for NetApp at its Insight partner event in Dublin this week, but very few customers have switched to the true clustering capability that debuted in version 8.1.1 of its Data ONTAP operating ...
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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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Alexander Zeier, co-designer of SAP's HANA appliance, speaks to Computer Weekly about the evolution of in-memory analytics. Zeier joined Accenture eight weeks ago, having spent the last few years at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of ...
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Dublin Airport Authority will virtualise and automate its CCTV data storage by 2013 for easy retrieval and simplified data management. Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) owns and operates Ireland’s three largest airports in Dublin, Cork ...
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Two government departments have migrated onto the Gov.uk site, as part of the first moves to bring all departmental information under a single domain. The home pages of the Department for Transport and the Department for Communities and ...
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Electronics firm Philips has called on skills specialist The Open Group to reorganise its IT workforce. The move enables Philips to identify the skills already available within its company and to create a clear career development path ...
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As staff bring their own devices to work, IT will need to rethink its printing and scanning policies, a study commissioned by Canon has reported. The pan-European survey of 729 users and decision-makers across Europe found that employers ...
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Microsoft has wasted thousands of pounds worth of electricity at its Redmond Quincy datacentre to avoid a $210,000 (129,000) penalty for underuse from its energy provider, according to the New York Times. According to the report, ...
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UK universities are missing out on applicants because they fail to treat students like any other online consumer, digital agency Nomensa has warned. Nomensa has urged universities to take a more intuitive approach to their online ...
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Controversial rules that could have seen the United Nations put in charge of the internet have been rejected by the UK and other member states at a conference in Dubai this week. The International Telecoms Union (ITU) – the ...
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Global accountancy firm Mazars has outsourced the management of access to Oracle and Sharepoint applications for 6000 global staff. The company uses Novell’s Access Manage and Identity Manager products to provide secure access to ...
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Gary McKinnon will not face prosecution in the UK for his alleged hacking of US government computer systems. The hacker, who suffers from Asperger's syndrome, was accused of hacking into military and Nasa computers in 2002, leading to the ...
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