Financial services and the public sector remain the biggest clients of IT consultancies but the availability of new technologies such as cloud computing and continued austerity have meant increasing take-up in other sectors. While the ...
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CIOs must cloud-enable business processes to make companies more agile, according to John Sculley, former CEO of Apple. The Cloud Computing World Forum opened with a keynote from Sculley, who predicted cloud adoption would grow ...
PC Advisor-Cloud computing is currently one of the most talked about topics for many business,for a large percentage of whom it is the perfect solution.For a startup,low costs and simple entry are appealing features--while large corporates ...
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Sales of Lite-On power supply products hit 15-month high in June Lite-On Technology has reported consolidated revenues of NT$10.43 billion(US$349.23 million)for June,up 2%on month and 4%on year.Among major product lines,sales of power ...
IDG News Service-CERN scientists announced on Wednesday that they observed a particle that strongly resembles the long-sought after Higgs boson,the final missing ingredient in the standard model of particle Physics. The scientists ...
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The Uefa Euro 2012 tournament The football administration management environment Uefa's private cloud infrastructure What next for Uefa's systems? Uefa has outsourced its IT infrastructure to a supplier-built private cloud to meet ...
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European admins look forward to new capabilities in Windows Server 2012 and high-end features in the free version of Hyper-V 3.0, such as shared-nothing live migration. Hyper-V 3.0 will also include added capabilities for cloud computing, ...
"We find it difficult to conduct foreign trade business of LED lights because the customers have greatly beaten down the prices, for example, the price of spotlights (3W) has fallen from $5.80in the first quarter to $3.50. The profits of ...
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Avago launches 120Gbps parallel-optic modules for cloud computing and data centers Avago Technologies has announced the availability of production volumes of 120Gbps multi-channel optical transmitter and receiver modules ...
Businesses across the world will spend $120bn on enterprise application software this year, according to the latest Gartner research. The software most in demand is enterprise resource planning (ERP) with $24.9bn spent on it; office ...
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Oracle reported an 8%increase in profits on a 1%increase in sales for the fourth quarter of its 2012 financial year. The business software maker reported sales of$10.9bn for the three-month period to 31 May,which was 1%higher than the ...
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LONDON --Though vendors would have you believe that cloud computing is now a mainstream technology, enterprise IT shops resist the public cloud due to cloud security concerns, licensing issues, and rising costs. Customers and analysts ...
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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are struggling to keep IT infrastructure up to date with mobile working and the increasing volume and sophistication of cyber threats, a survey has revealed. Most SMEs (92%) now need to support remote ...
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The latest research from analyst Forrester urges CIOs to scrutinise the true cost of cloud computing to avoid costly charges. In Forrester's Make the Cloud Enterprise Ready report, principal analyst James Staten assessed the cost of cloud ...
In spite of all the hype in the industry around cloud computing,UK IT decision-makers are not prepared to put applications in the cloud. A new study conducted by Alcatel-Lucent reported that the UK is falling behind leading countries in ...
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