The "Personal Computer Era" has evolved into the "Personal Cloud Era" with the surprising new entrant, the tablet, says Michel Emelianoff, Executive Vice President of Alcatel-Lucent and President, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise. What do you ...
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With its $7.2 billion agreement to buy Nokia’s handset business, Microsoft is in a position to surpass Apple and Android smartphone makers in providing an enterprise-class mobile platform, experts say. However, whether Microsoft is ...
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The introduction of Rackspace's hosted Dedicated VMware vCenter Server will allow IT staff to control their VMware environments from a data center run by the vendor. As enterprises move IT infrastructure out of their own data centers, ...
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When Microsoft shipped Windows 2000 and Active Directory, Apple didn't really have a solution for identity management or for linking Macs to an enterprise network. The company was just beginning the transition from its classic Mac OS ...
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In the ongoing quest for faster access to data, Diablo Technologies has taken what could be a significant next step. Diablo’s Memory Channel Storage (MCS) architecture, expected to show up in servers shipping later this year, allows ...
More and more workers around the world are bringing their personal mobile devices to the office daily, and companies appear to be having trouble keeping up with the trend. About 60 percent of organisations acknowledged they either don't ...
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BlackBerry continues to expand its support for Android and iOS with Secure Work Space, which separates work and personal apps and data, as the company tries to hold on to enterprise users by becoming more platform neutral. Remaining ...
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The bring your own device (BYOD) trend is gaining steam, thanks to the cost benefits and increased productivity that can come from allowing employees to provision their own technology. Mobile workers are more likely to put in more hours, so ...
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The complexity of existing IT systems is acting as a major barrier to the adoption of cloud, with many CIOs unsure as to how to adapt to the technology, warns a report by ICT services provider NTT Europe. Based on the views of 300 CIOs ...
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Businesses risk failure to comply with privacy and data protection laws due to the rise of"regulated data"being accessed via smartphone and tablet devices. So says a new report by independent research firm Ponemon Institute and security ...
Tags: Mobile Devices, IT, Businesses risk, privacy
MapR Technologies and VMware have collaborated to make it easier for enterprises to virtualize big data applications and get better support at the same time. The companies have collaborated to certify for VMware's vSphere platform the ...
Airline IT departments are set to invest in business intelligence (BI) and mobile solutions over the next three years, in an effort to personalise passengers' air travel experience. That's according to SITA's fifteenth annual Airline ...
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The IT department of 2020 could disappear as a separate entity and become embedded in departments throughout the entire organisation, according to analyst Forrester. Speaking at its CIO Forum event in London, analysts discussed some of ...
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The next summer blockbuster out of 20th Century Fox might be called "The Incredible Shrinking Data Center." The entertainment giant is taking about 9,000 square feet of data center space, spread in three data centers, and shrinking it ...
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Consumerization of IT and self-service trends will lead to a restructuring of the today's IT shop, leaving behind a hybrid model consisting of tech consultants and integrators. "The business itself will be the IT ...
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