Holiday company Villa Plus is using IBM's business analytics software to support its advertising campaigns as it increases its number of properties by 40%. Villa Plus implemented IBM's Coremetrics analytics software to help it understand ...
With downward price pressures, the excess capacity that providers must have on hand for peak traffic becomes a drag on profits. After the cloud gold-rush era is over, providers will need to find ways to turn that cost center into a profit ...
Tags: cloud service, IT industry, IT technology, SETI
It's been quite the all-star cast of companies joining the Linux Foundation over the past year or so, and next week will see the addition of another doozy. Following in the footsteps of Broadcom, Nvidia and Samsung -- all of which joined ...
Tags: Twitter, US, Linux Foundation, technology
Computer giant HP has chalked up a $8.9bn HP has chalked up a $8.9bn (£5.6bn) loss(£5.6bn) loss in it is latest quarterly results due to write-downs on its poorly timed $13.9bn (£8.75bn) purchase of services company EDS. ...
Tags: Computer, HP, PC, server, storage hardware
Hitachi Data Systems today lifted the covers off its flash roadmap,saying that like EMC,it will put NAND flash products in servers,storage and appliances in order to enable compute acceleration,caching and high-performance storage. HDS ...
Tags: Hitachi Data Systems, EMC, NAND flash products, SSD Controller
In a bid to improve its store performance and customer marketing, mobile retailer Carphone Warehouse has used business intelligence (BI) software by MicroStrategy as opposed to rival Information Builders because the dashboards created by ...
Tags: Carphone Warehouse, mobile retailer, Netezza data, MicroStrategy
IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced a US$8.9 billion loss for its third quarter ended July 31 due to writedowns and weak hardware sales and also said full-year results would be at the low end of its previous guidance. ...
Tags: HP, weak sales, revenue, Personal Systems Group
Computerworld - Siemens is working on a fix for a remotely exploitable vulnerability in network routers and switches from subsidiary RuggedCom that are widely deployed in refineries, power substations and other critical infrastructure ...
Tags: Siemens, network routers, ROS, router
Dell announced that former HP Networking Division head Marius Haas has joined the firm on the same day as it released disappointing Q2 financial results. Haas will succeed Brad Anderson, who has been Dell's Enterprise Solutions chief ...
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A new style of tray which promises to make it easier and safer for waiting staff to carry and deliver drinks and food to tables has been launched in the UK. Product details: Launched at Hotelympia earlier this year,Safetray looks like a ...
Tags: tray, delivering food, retractable clip, safe
The take-up of mobile technology will have a dramatic affect on back-office IT systems, with hidden costs and disruptions possible for companies that do not redesign systems and processes, according to Forrester Research. Businesses are ...
Tags: mobile technology, dramatic affect, back-office, IT systems
Guest writer Andy Gardner,design manager for mixed signal products at Linear Technology says that for designers of networking equipment increasing system functionality adds Asics and processors,each requiring several voltage rails,resulting ...
Tags: digital control, hardware, mixed signal product, power
Hotel chain De Vere Group has outsourced its IT to a private cloud from IT services firm ANS Group, reducing its 18 rack hosted data cente to three, in a bid to cut hosting costs. ANS Group will implement a private cloud to manage and ...
Tags: De Vere Group, ANS Group, private cloud, IT services, IT systems, switches
Specsavers moved to an IT service management system from BMC Software when it wanted to become ITIL compliant and standardise the service globally. The optical retail chain implemented BMC FootPrints in 2008, when it upgraded a system ...
Tags: Specsavers, IT service management system, BMC Software
IDG News Service - Streaming video game service OnLive is based around powerful servers that streams games to inexpensive TV adapters in the homes of its users, but it was a miscalculation in the amount of infrastructure needed that ...
Tags: OnLive, Steve Perlman, Autodesk, Maverick Capital