MicroStrategy is set to unveil an array of enhancements to its BI(business intelligence)software platform,covering areas such as visual data-exploration and the open-source Hadoop data-processing framework,during the MicroStrategy World ...
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IDG News Service - Dell announced an aggressive schedule last year to roll out cloud-based application services, but it now looks like the schedule was a little too aggressive. Dell said last August that it planned to launch an online ...
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Dell will continue offering Windows 7 even after the release of Windows 8 at the end of October, the company said. The Windows 7 OS, which reached PCs in October of 2009, will be offered as an option to commercial and gaming customers, ...
Printers manufactured by Samsung have a backdoor administrator account hard coded in their firmware that could enable attackers to change their configuration, read their network information or stored credentials and access sensitive ...
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The internet is revolutionising the newspaper industry, and for the publisher of the Daily Mail and Metro, it is having the same effect on IT strategy. David Henderson, CIO at A&N Media, says the publisher’s websites attract 100 ...
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How Dell IT has changed Internships and reverse mentoring Women in IT It is one thing being CEO of a company with best-in-class supply chain.But what happens when the business refocuses? Adriana Karaboutis has been global CIO at Dell ...
Verizon's Enterprise Solutions group today unveiled a cloud services portfolio for the healthcare industry that it said can meet federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements for safeguarding electronic ...
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Law firm Sackers and Partners is using automated storage tiering to reduce costs and time taken to manage systems storing an ever increasing amount of data. Using a Dell Compellent system, Sackers is automatically storing data on low cost ...
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The worldwide chip market dropped from being labeled "stagnant" to "in a slump" this year, with one analyst firm downgrading its forecast to a level that puts the entire year in a decline. IHS iSuppli announced Monday that it is ...
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ISACA has released insights from its 2012 IT Risk/Reward Barometer. The results from this study confirm an understanding of the risk posed by employee activities with both work and personal devices. For example, a consistently high ...
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Disk storage capacity shipped by vendors worldwide surpassed 7 exabytes for the first time in a quarter, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker report. The total disk storage capacity shipped by vendors in the ...
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Employees who are offered bring-your-own-device(BYOD)initiatives and input into IT decisions are likely to be more productive in the workplace,according to research. Also known as the consumerisation of IT,such flexibility may enhance ...
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Hewlett-Packard is extending its 3PAR enterprise storage offerings with an all-SSD version of the P10000 array. The all-SSD (solid-state disk) version, announced on Monday and available immediately starting at US$350,000, is designed to ...
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Apple will be the world's largest chip buyer this year because of the surge in demand for the company's products, enabling it to command lower prices and quicker delivery, IHS iSuppli said in research released on Wednesday. The company's ...
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The month of October may have been more or less dominated by Ubuntu Linux for those of us anticipating its recent "Quantal Quetzal" release, but this week the Linux Mint project made an intriguing announcement of its own. Specifically, ...
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