Information technology professionals say companies can gain a competitive advantage by buying products and services from startup tech vendors, but they stress that doing business with a young company involves risks. If CIOs choose to ...
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In a September survey of 599 C-level executives and IT decision-makers in 19 countries, managed services provider Avanade found that 61 percent of companies now report that employees are using personal devices in the workplace. More than ...
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Increased regulation, reduced profits and changing customer demands are driving banks to replace home-grown software with commercially available alternatives. Simon Paris, head of global banking at SAP, said the strategic change has been ...
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A 10MW (megawatt) modular datacentre worth £60m will be built in Birmingham by March 2013 to provide storage services for high street banks, financial services firms, media companies, technology companies and small businesses. The ...
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Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets. While many large organizations are still ...
As mobile devices and social media put down ever deeper roots in IT, businesses are seeing big changes in how employees do their jobs and how customers interact with them, in addition to--ideally--using the technologies to find new revenue ...
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Labor problems and low prices have platinum mines closing up shop in South Africa, and the potential for acquisitions is ripening. Senior Mining Analyst and Managing Director at Stifel Nicolaus in Toronto, George Topping believes that ...
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Computerworld - A senior Democratic lawmaker is urging President Barack Obama to issue an executive order aimed at protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against cyber threats. In an open letter to the President on Tuesday, Sen. ...
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EMC is showing heavy interest in boosting its share of the data center market by moving from storage and related services to servers. Over the past two years, EMC has announced a number of partnerships and products that slipped its toe ...
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IDG News Service - A partnership of New York City businesses has put out a call for innovative financial technologies. Sponsored by The Partnership for New York City Fund and Accenture, the FinTech Innovation Lab seeks novel technologies ...
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Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited is a pedigreed Indian institution with a mandate to sponsor, develop and commercialize infrastructure projects and to provide value added financial services. IL&FS stakeholders are ...
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A hacker today claimed to have broken into ITWallStreet.com, a website for IT professionals who are seeking Wall Street jobs or working with Wall Street firms, and exposed highly detailed data belonging to tens of thousands of job ...
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Cloud computing will move supercomputers out of the research labs and into c, it was claimed this week. Dial-up supercomputing services are making it possible for smaller companies to analyse vast quantities of data, run engineering ...
U.S. marketers spent 14% more in online advertising in the first half of the year, compared with the same period in 2011, hitting $17 billion, according to a study sponsored by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and conducted by PwC ...
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IBM's latest mainframe, the zEnterprise EC12, was built with data analytics and hybrid clouds in mind. And that's good, analysts say, because the company must focus on new applications like those to ensure that its workhorse data center ...
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