Lobbying among countries and various special interests to"take control"of the internet is intensifying in advance of the International Telecommunications Union(ITU)World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai next week. ...
Tags: UN, ITU, ITRs, World Conference on International Telecommunications, Dubai
The Wet Seal Inc.,a leading specialty retailer to young women,announced that Kathy Bronstein,retail consultant and former CEO of Wet Seal,and John Goodman,most recently Executive Vice President of Apparel and Home at Sears and former CEO of ...
Tags: Wet Seal, fast fashion
More specialist teachers in science and computer science are needed for primary school children,a report from CBI has called for today. The First Steps:A new approach for our schools report is being launched at the CBI Annual Conference ...
Tags: CBI reports, computer science teaching reforms, UK education system
GMI Ratings has selected InfoTech Solutions for Business, Inc. to manage IT infrastructure and software product development. NEW YORK, NY, November 19, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- GMI Ratings, the leading provider of research on ...
Tags: GMI Ratings, InfoTech, software product, IT infrastructure
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing(HKEx)is the nervous system of the city's financial industry.It operates the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and is one of the world's premier exchange-owners based on market capitalization of its shares. ...
Tags: HKEx, IT governance, tech initiative, Orion
"I don't think IT realizes how much the way we live life as individuals has completely permeated the enterprise,"says Margaret Dawson,vice president of product management at Symform."This is happening whether you want it to or not." ...
Tags: Shadow IT, Symform, survey, rogue cloud use
With SaaS(software as a service)having become a preferred deployment model for new software purchases,customers should be entitled to a clear-cut set of rights and expectations from vendors,a new report from analyst firm Constellation ...
Tags: SaaS, Constellation Research, software
The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)must focus on encouraging organisations to raise employee awareness of the need for robust data security,and not just rely on the threat of fines to do this. So argues Phil Allen,director of ...
Tags: data loss, ICO, robust data security, Phil Allen
The IT Security professional is there to ensure that an organisation's information is not compromised,whether you are an acquirer,a target or a party to a merger. From the acquirer's perspective,there are some very simple questions that ...
Tags: Security Think Tank, Essential security questions, MandAs
Whitehall has launched its long-awaited response to the open standards consultation, which will force government bodies to comply with its list of "Open Standards Principles" when purchasing technology. Departments must use the principles ...
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Walls Construction,an Irish construction services company,has saved upwards of€31,000 by moving stale content from a SQL Server to less expensive storage,using software from AvePoint–a SharePoint governance and infrastructure ...
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Safety specialist First Choice Facilities has been fined £18,000 for unlicensed software following completion of an acquisition. First Choice Facilities must also pay an additional £81,000 to buy the sufficient software ...
Tags: software, unlicensed software, First Choice Facilities, software licences
PPG Industries has announced John V. Faraci as its newest board member and member of the board's audit committee and nominating and governance committee.. Faraci has been the chairman and CEO of International Paper Co. since November 2003. ...
The growing use of virtualisation has really helped many organisations. Not only have the average utilisation rates of servers and storage improved, but the use of applications and other software packaged ready for installation – ...
Tags: servers, storage, applications, software, virtual machines, virtual images
IDG News Service-Analysts have predicted a trend towards moving IT from on-premise to off-premise,new cloud applications and an increase in spending on cloud services next year. IDC head of research Matthew Oostveen said with cloud ...
Tags: new cloud applications, cloud services, cloud computing