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 ...
Running the world's most popular website, Google engineers know a thing or two about keeping a site responsive under very high demand. In the latest issue of the ACM (Association for Computer Machinery) monthly magazine, Google reveals a ...
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The company formerly known as RIM delivered on its promise to breathe new life into its aging, iconic BlackBerry product line, but BlackBerry devices still face an uphill battle against Apple's iPhone and myriad smartphones based on ...
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Cloud Desktop is an entire computer system including operating system and applications in the Cloud, accessible via any browser and without any plug-in or software installation. Mikogo, the global provider of online collaboration ...
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Email is a commodity, says Chicago CIO Brett Goldstein, and that's why city officials have decided to shift to cloud-based mail services as part of a broad effort to improve IT operations. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel this month disclosed ...
General Motors CIO Randy Mott Thursday said the automaker plans to have the"best jobs in the IT industry"at its four"IT Innovation Centers"in the U.S.At the same time,Mott criticized Hewlett-Packard's move to contest GM's hiring of some HP ...
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New sales and services directors as firm aims for 'Bull 3.0' Bull UK & Ireland announced the appointment of sales director, Nayan Kotecha and services director, Jackie Raybould to its senior management team. Both took up their new posts ...
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Computerworld-NEW YORK-Tablet computing has become a top priority of Fortune 500 CIOs and will eclipse PC use by 2015,if not sooner.Email is becoming a legacy technology in the face of social media.And consumer app stores are offering ...
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Email is a commodity,says Brett Goldstein,Chicago's CIO,and that's why he's moving it to a cloud. The Windy City said Thursday it is migrating email and desktop applications to Microsoft's cloud services for about 30,000 employees. This ...
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Personally identifiable information of "at least" 10,000 NASA employees and contractors remains at risk of compromise following last month's theft of an agency laptop, a spokesman told Computerworld via email Thursday. Agency employees ...
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Computerworld - General Motors, which is insourcing the majority of its IT work, Friday said it is hiring 500 IT positions in Austin to staff a new "innovation center." The announcement is part of far-reaching GM plan to hire as many as ...
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COPPELL, TX, August 05, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Product Support Services, Inc. (PSSI), a specialized provider of service supply chain and reverse logistics solutions for the electronics industry, today announced the company has secured ...
Spanish bank Banco Santander has pulled out of its multi billion pound agreement to take over 316 Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS)branches,and the customers associated with them,because of IT integration problems. But sources say that IT ...
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Hewlett-Packard has agreed to transfer 3,000 of its employees to General Motors, as the automaker moves IT operations in-house, the two companies announced. The HP workers are part of a team running GM's IT operations under outsourcing ...
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General Motors (GM) is hiring 3,000 staff from HP as part of its aggressive plan to bring outsourced IT work back in-house. GM announced plans to bring its outsourced IT, which was about 90% of the total, back in-house and recruit 10,000 ...
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