The growing use of virtualisation has really helped many organisations. Not only have the average utilisation rates of servers and storage improved, but the use of applications and other software packaged ready for installation – ...
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Businesses are stepping up their investment in sophisticated IT systems to manage the training and development of their workforce. Spending on learning management systems(LMS)technology,which allows businesses to manage the skills ...
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The failure of human resources(HR)departments to understand how a business works is one of the most common reasons why HR IT projects fail,delegates at HRTech2012 heard. Most HR heads do not really understand how their business makes ...
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Enterprise IT on the go with Windows 8 Windows 8 and the XP legacy What next for Windows 8 With the launch of Windows 8,Microsoft is taking a step into the unknown.In a bid to stop its lucrative PC operating system(OS)business losing ...
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Businesses are opening themselves up to security threats by failing to manage bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programmes properly. According to a study of 4,000 workers, carried out by Ovum, 80% of corporate BYOD schemes are "inadequately ...
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First came the heavy adoption of Apple's mobile platform by consumers whose heavy use of the devices for business tasks forced the IT operations at their companies to support them. Android was the next mobile platform pushed onto IT and ...
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Organisations need to focus now on the changes they need to make to take advantage of the performance and operational improvements that the data centres of the future will offer. Speaking as part of a panel at IPEXPO this week, Anthony ...
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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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IDG News Service-Citrix Systems is giving back to IT departments some control over personal cloud-based storage with ShareFile StorageZones,which allows user content to be stored in enterprises'own data centers,the company announced at the ...
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Gilbert Van Cutsem,senior vice president and general manager of the Database Division for Pervasive Software,has been named a Worldwide Who's Who Professional of the Year in Computer Software.While inclusion in Worldwide Who's Who is an ...
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Software defined datacentres, cloud management and automation, virtualisation licensing, mobile virtualisation, heterogeneity and the need for IT executives to develop new skills in the cloud era were some of the themes of the VMworld ...
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VMworld Europe 2012 has kicked off in Barcelona,with 11,000 attendees expected to descend on the Fira Gran Via over the next four days. VMware's annual European event was opened with keynotes from VMware senior executives giving an ...
US insurance company Nationwide Insurance is using VMware's ITBM tool to manage all the costs associated with running IT services for the business. Nationwide Insurance now offers internal IT users a service catalogue, with pricing, to ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced intentions for a "fundamental shift" in Microsoft's technology business model, describing a future in which the company will start to "build specific devices for specific purposes". In his annual ...
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Computerworld-CIOs are being predictably cautious with IT budgets for next year,and are focusing on increasing use of cloud technologies and offshore outsourcing,according to the annual report of technology trends by the Society for ...