When he joined Great Ormond Street Hospital as IT director three-and-a-half years ago,Mark Large was faced with immediate issues as the result of an ageing IT infrastructure. Staff were tied to their desks because there was not a viable ...
Tags: IT Infrastructure, Street Hospital, Wireless, Network
To simplify life for developers,platform-as-a-service provider Heroku has released a version of the open-source Postgres database designed to be easily run on Apple Macintosh computers. While the Postgres project itself maintains a ...
Tags: Heroku, Mac Postgres, platform-as-a-service provider, Soldo
Many global organisations could do a lot more to protect their private data and reduce exposure to attacks by hackers,according to KPMG. More than three quarters of organisations in the Forbes 2000 are leaking data,potentially creating ...
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Dell has laid out a plan to dramatically grow its software business by targeting mid-sized companies that it says are under-served by rivals such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle. Its plan is to target four key areas: security, ...
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Engineering firm Alstom has outsourced its datacentre transformation to systems integrator CSC for an initial five years. CSC will use its private cloud service, BizCloud, and storage as a service infrastructure as part of a server and ...
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China's Huawei Technologies wants to take a bigger bite out of the enterprise market with a wider range of storage products, months after the company completed an acquisition of its joint venture with U.S. firm Symantec. Huawei is best ...
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Computerworld-When the Government Employees Health Association(GEHA)overhauled its data center to build a fabric infrastructure,the process was"really straightforward,"unlike that of many IT projects,says Brenden Bryan,senior manager of ...
Tags: Data center, GEHA, Fibre Channel, Ethernet switches
UK - XL Video supplied production company Ear To The Ground and the band Elbow with LED screens, PPU / cameras, a Catalyst media server system and crew for a sold out performance at the Jodrell Bank Observatory & Centre for Astrophysics ...
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Advanced Micro Devices will detail its upcoming low-power CPU for tablets code-named Jaguar at the Hot Chips show in August, and share the stage with IBM, Oracle and Fujitsu, which will provide further insight into next-generation server ...
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A jury in California found Research In Motion had infringed a patent relating to wireless device management owned by assignment by Mformation Technologies, a mobile device management technology provider in Edison, New Jersey. The jury ...
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Security experts say the breach that led to the publication of the login details of more than 453,000 Yahoo and other companies'customers,highlights common enterprise security failings. The hacking group,known as D33Ds Company,said they ...
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When the Financial Services Authority(FSA)introduces new rules,companies under its jurisdiction often have to invest in IT to enable them to adhere to the new guidelines. Because data is so important in finance companies,regulations ...
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Streaming digital music to a pair of high-end loudspeakers in the simplest way is now possible thanks to this new Bang & Olufsen's device (15,7 x 13,6 x 12 cm. 512 gram). The music lovers can combine the convenience of a digital music ...
Tags: streaming digital music, loudspeakers, digital music library
Technology firm CSC has said that its global insurance software suite Integral is available on Microsoft's Windows Server with a SQL Server database. CSC said that the addition of the Microsoft technology to Integral's portable Java-based ...
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Microsoft today patched 16 vulnerabilities, including one in Windows that's been exploited for weeks and two in Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) in the first-in-years back-to-back browser update. Of Tuesday's nine security updates, three were ...
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