Infosys said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lodestone Holding, a management consultancy firm in Zurich with skills in the area of SAP software, as the Indian company attempts to move into higher-value services. The ...
CIOs will increasingly have to share their control of IT budgets with marketing departments as customer relationship management (CRM) software is becoming critical to customer retention. Mac Scott, associate director in KPMG’s CIO ...
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Microsoft's most significant update to Windows Azure takes the cloud platform to a different level. Rather than focus on Windows applications and bridging the gap between in-house and cloud-based IT, Microsoft is now offering Azure as ...
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The Wimbledon website has been redesigned on IBM’s SmartCloud for the 16 million unique visitors expected to access the site during the tournament. The website will integrate a new online broadcast channel and feed displaying the ...
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Microsoft has said it is increasing its investment in China as it looks to take advantage of the growing market. The company will invest in new hires, more research for local requirements, and an expansion to additional cities and ...
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Outsourcing is becoming an increasingly complex task for CIOs – especially if you want it to be successful. Originally, the idea of handing all or parts of your IT infrastructure to a third party was to exploit economies of scale ...
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HP today announced it is expanding its Converged Cloud portfolio with joint HP and Microsoft solutions that aim to simplify and enhance every aspect of a client's private cloud journey. The HP and Microsoft Joint Private Cloud initiative ...
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The US House of Representatives has voted unanimously to approve a resolution aimed at preventing any efforts to hand the United Nations more power to oversee the Internet. The resolution by the lower house of the US Congress had ...
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Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison, announced the Oracle Exadata X3 Database In-Memory Machine, the latest generation of its Oracle Database Machines, during his keynote address at Orcale OpenWorld 2012. “Forward-looking enterprises are ...
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Businesses and public sector organisations continue to outsource operations, with demand for shared services outstripping traditional outsourcing. According to KPMG research into outsourcing trends, over half (52%) of organisations in ...
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Meaningful cloud computing standards are crucial to improve the maturity of cloud-based services and bring increased flexibility, security and interoperability, but too many competing standards could wreak damage, warned the Cloud Industry ...
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Cisco plans to expand its services business over the next several years, seeing a more important role for itself in a world of connected machines and devices. The company will build up its managed services and consulting services, ...
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Since the mid 2000s one of the prevailing trends in the IT world has been to move networks,data,operating systems and servers into an environment where they are not tied to a specific piece of hardware. In the early days the emphasis was ...
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A service discovered in the criminal underground is renting access to thousands of corporate servers that have been hacked through Windows software that lets people control computers remotely over the Internet. Dedicatedexpress.com is ...
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The European Commission has announced a new strategy to speed up and increase the use of cloud computing, with the aim of creating 2.5 million new jobs and boosting GDP by €160 billion (£127bn) by 2020. The EC states that ...
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