Buro Happold is a global engineering consultancy with 27 offices in seven countries. Founded in Bath in south-west England, Buro Happold has 1,500 staff worldwide and has worked on projects ranging from the O2 in London to the Louvre in Abu ...
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The general availability of Windows Server 2012 today will see Microsoft’s strongest push yet to target VMware users. Microsoft describes the new operating system (OS) – an update to the three-year-old Windows Server 2008 OS ...
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Computerworld - The idea that public cloud-based services will radically transform in-house IT operations is ever more evident at Netflix. Netflix no longer wants to run a data center in support of its in-house corporate IT services. It ...
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As we've seen in recent years, natural disasters can lead to long-term downtime for organizations. Because earthquakes, hurricanes, snow storms or other events can put data centers and other corporate facilities out of commission for a ...
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Even as IT pros wrestle with the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, corporate security is being further complicated by another emerging trend: bring your own network (BYON). BYON is a by-product of increasingly common technology that ...
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Slough-based logistics company Crossflight has implemented an EMC VNX mid-range storage array to support its virtual server environment and has reaped savings of 50% on power and cooling costs. The company chose EMC over HP, IBM and ...
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Citigroup is to lose more than 5,000 IT and operations jobs as part of the banking giant’s axing of 11,000 jobs globally. Some 40% of the jobs being cut in the firm’s Global Consumer Banking arm are to come from IT ...
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"Indian providers have had to deal with these contingencies-international telecom cables being sliced, large union strikes that impact workers-so they are generally more prepared to deal with [them]," says Steve Hall, partner with ...
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Chad Hodges Provides Complete Technology Solutions to Clients Sacramento, CA, December 5, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Chad Hodges, president of HSB Solutions, was recently named a VIP member of Worldwide Who's Who. This special distinction ...
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IT staff are spending 30% of their time carrying out basic tasks and are growing frustrated with the lack of time left to focus on transformational work. The average IT worker is also only using half of the skills they possess as a result ...
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AMD recently deployed a 6TB NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment and got some amazing results, says Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at the chip maker. In virtualization benchmarking tests, the ...
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Sound system maker Bang & Olufsen is rolling out Microsoft Office 365 to its 2,000 employees as it moves email away from Lotus Notes. The decision was taken when the company decided to upgrade its email system and the cloud was seen as ...
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In response to a White House mandate, the agencies and departments of the federal government are gradually moving their IT operations to the cloud in a shift that could save billions of dollars, while also raising serious security concerns. ...
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What should we take away from EMC’s third-quarter financial results? I am pleased that EMC showed growth in this challenging environment. Our strategy, balanced portfolio, operational model and ability to execute are paying off ...
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This is especially true of organizations subject to compliance with regulations like PCI-DSS or HIPAA, but any organization could find itself in trouble if it can't get its hands on emails and SMS messages during an ediscovery process. ...
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