Computerworld - Apple's anticipated iWatch and Google Glass have provoked plenty of headlines, but a recent poll shows that a majority of well-heeled Americans with college degrees wouldn't consider buying or wearing such devices. The ...
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The need by corporate IT operations to enable easier interaction with massive -- and fast growing -- data sets in Hadoop environments is driving a flurry of vendor activity. For one, Splunk last week rolled out a beta version of an ...
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Informatica has given its virtual data machine technology a proper name and is planning to create versions of it that can run on anything from high-end servers in private data centers to small devices and sensors. Dubbed Vibe, the "VDM ...
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Economic woes in recent years have spurred companies of all sizes to shake up data center hiring, training, development and other processes to better align IT and business operations -- and boost the bottom line. Many companies now look ...
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Making good on a promise made in December, VMware and parent company EMC have launched a new company, called Pivotal, to offer an enterprise-ready data analysis platform as a service (PaaS) based on software from both companies. Pivotal's ...
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IITMs lose six hours per week from the business productivity Small businesses lose more than $24bn per year as nontechnical employees or Involuntary IT managers (IITMs) are given the task to manage the IT solution of companies, according ...
The industry has a new company in town — Accell Group North America. And its new structure is taking aim at the industry's top three brands — Trek, Specialized and Giant. At a small dealer meeting Tuesday morning, Steve ...
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In a bid to improve its IT operations, the Department of Homeland Security has adopted agile development and is turning to cloud platforms. At a recent hearing before the House Committee on Homeland Security, DHS deputy CIO Margaret ...
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Cisco this week reduced its workforce by about 1% -- or 734 people - as the company realigns to face the advent of software-defined networking, cloud computing and its impact on routing and switching. "We routinely review our business to ...
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Worldwide spending on IT products and services will grow by 4.1 percent this year to roughly US$3.8 trillion, according to new forecast figures released by analyst firm Gartner. Cuts in U.S. government spending and the ongoing debt crisis ...
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Worldwide spending on IT products and services will grow 4.1% this year to roughly $3.8 trillion, according to new forecast figures released by analyst firm Gartner. Cuts in U.S. government spending and the debt crisis in Cyprus have ...
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There's a maxim in the data center business that holds that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with a new metric designed to make it easier to measure -- and therefore manage -- data center performance. The ...
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has moved to agile development and is shifting to cloud platforms in an effort to improve its IT operations. At a hearing before the House Committee on Homeland Security on Tuesday, a DHS IT ...
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The BMW Group has hired Infosys to help manage the carmaker’s global IT infrastructure. The five-year contract will see Infosys cover services such as maintenance and operations of the Web infrastructure, content management, SAP ...
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There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement systems for calculating data center efficiency. The online auction giant has devised a ...
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