When Ken Stephens, a senior vice president of Xerox Cloud Services, tried to hire a product manager from IBM recently, he had quite a shock. "I offered him a 40 percent raise," Stevens said in an interview. "But then IBM came back and gave ...
2012 was the year cloud computing hit the mainstream.More users started adopting cloud-based services and vendors intensified competition by launching aggressive price wars for market share. Enterprises and public sector organisations ...
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Marks & Spencer is continuing its hunt for IT graduates as it plans to recruit a new software engineering team in London throughout 2013. As part of its existing Graduate Scheme and Business Placement Programme, half of the 50 strong team ...
LONDON -- Cloud computing may have become the “phrase du jour” for the IT industry but the vastly overused term still means different things to different people. Here are a few cloud computing definitions from IT pros, ...
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Since the Hong Kong SAR government's establishment of the OGCIO--and its ditching of the ITSD (Information Technology Services Department)--in 2004, many local ICT pros and startups have slammed the government's lukewarm attitude towards ...
While the BYO trend is most commonly associated with employee-owned smartphones and tablets entering the workplace, new research by Cloud and mobile services vendor, LogMeIn, sheds light on another growing aspect of employee-driven tech ...
IT pros are accustomed to handling unexpected crises, such as when hardware fails or a cloud service has an outage. But it seems many IT leaders haven’t considered what will happen if they’re suddenly unable to work. More than ...
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Some virtualisation admins are slow to update VMware’s patches because they are afraid their app functions won’t work, however patches fix vulnerabilities and are a risk that must be taken. Despite potential threats to a ...
Dell announces Quest Software acquisition… finally Dell has entered into a definitive agreement to buy desktop virtualisation-related vendor Quest Software for $2.36bn (pound 1.51bn). Under terms of the agreement, Dell Inc. will ...
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Citrix has extended the XenApp product lifecycle to align it with the lifecycles of corresponding Microsoft server platforms. But IT pros are advised to upgrade quickly to avoid extended support costs that could add up to about euro 200,000 ...
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Just over half of IT professionals who focus on cloud computing do not trust cloud services for any of their personal data,a survey has revealed. Some 86%of those polled by Lieberman Software said they do not trust the cloud for their ...
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As with just about everything on the internet, there is so much information you can get lost before you even know where you are going. In searching for links for this site I have come across some really great computer certification sites ...
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IT services provider Civica has secured multiple contracts with 22 UK schools to provide digital learning services. Implemented by Civica's education division, the learning environments use Civica's CloudBase learning platform and Virtual ...
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Vint Cerf–the founding father of the internet–is backing the BCS's call for computer science to be included in the English Baccalaureate(EBacc). In 2015,the EBacc is set to replace the current GCSE examination system in five ...
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If there is one word that has defined this year, it's "uncertainty." It has been hanging over almost every economic and job growth analysis related to IT. Blame the elections, the fiscal cliff and Europe. But with less than two months to ...
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