Marks & Spencer is continuing its hunt for IT graduates as it plans to recruit a new software engineering team in London throughout 2013. As part of its existing Graduate Scheme and Business Placement Programme, half of the 50 strong team ...
The U.S. is once again home to the world's most powerful supercomputer, rebounding after it was knocked out of the top spot by China two years ago and Japan last year. The latest Top500 list of supercomputers, released last month, also ...
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Following the best marketing practices of traditional IT firms, Google has launched a partner program to help third-party vendors use and sell Google cloud services. The Google Cloud Platform Partner Program will provide "our partners ...
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Nicira is a start-up right out of the Silicon Valley playbook with a $1.26 billion ending, in just five years. VMware's decision, announced Monday, to buy this network virtualization company will likely be cited as a starring example of ...
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Oracle is yanking advertising claims that its Exadata database machine had vastly super performance to IBM's Power Systems hardware, according to an announcement Tuesday by the National Advertising Division, an industry self-regulatory ...
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FUTURE computing devices will push further into the senses by developing capacities to mimic the ability to see, smell, touch, taste and hear, IBM says in an annual forecast. The seventh annual "IBM 5 in 5", a list of innovations that ...
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Taipei,Dec.20,2012(CENS)--Some 18,949 servers were sold in Taiwan in the third quarter of 2012,up 6%from the same period of last year,or year-on-year(YoY),and a 9%increase from previous quarter,or quarter-on-quarter(QoQ),according to IDC ...
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The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) offers free Linux Essentials Pilot exams at Zarafa SummerCamp 2012 in Kerkrade / the Netherlands on June 21 and 22, 2012. The number of 'Pilot' exams is restricted to 30. Besides these new exams, every ...
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Alcatel-Lucent’s enterprise division this week jumped into the SDN market with a strategy to fortify products to enhance network programmability and virtualisation. The company is augmenting its Application Fluent Network strategy ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the company’s annual Build developer conference emphasising the momentum of the company’s new Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 operating systems. “In just the last three days, we have ...
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After almost a year of preparation, The OpenStack Foundation has launched as a stand-alone nonprofit organization, freeing its namesake stack of open source cloud hosting software from the management of hosting provider Rackspace. ...
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The availability of supercomputing applications to small and medium sized businesses will be the next big thing to happen in the cloud computing market, according a senior systems consultant at IBM. Tikiri Wanduragala told Computerworld ...
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IBM has been slapped with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by chemical products manufacturer Avantor Performance Materials, which alleges IBM lied about the suitability of an SAP-based software package it sells in order to win Avantor’s ...
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Mining.com reported that China's Heilongjiang Heilong Resources Investment is investing AUD 30 million in International Base Metals the owner of the Omitiomire deposit in Namibia which is believed to harbor 700,000 tonnes of copper. The ...
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As storage spending consumes an ever-increasing proportion of IT budgets across the public sector against a backdrop of severe spending cuts, the case for using open-source storage software in government is gathering momentum. The public ...
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