For its most recent financial quarter, IBM experienced a drop-off in revenue, though it was able to maintain profit growth. For the second quarter, IBM generated US$25.8 billion in revenue, down 3 percent from the second quarter of 2011. ...
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IBM's latest mainframe, the zEnterprise EC12, was built with data analytics and hybrid clouds in mind. And that's good, analysts say, because the company must focus on new applications like those to ensure that its workhorse data center ...
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The G-Cloud looks set to become the future model for the way government buys its IT – with a new framework in the pipeline that will include secure email services for the NHS – and calls for it to become a blueprint for all new ...
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Alexander Zeier, co-designer of SAP's HANA appliance, speaks to Computer Weekly about the evolution of in-memory analytics. Zeier joined Accenture eight weeks ago, having spent the last few years at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of ...
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If attackers want to get in to an organisation's information systems, they will, says Frank Coggrave, general manager for Europe at e-discovery firm Guidance Software. "Many IT departments still have their heads in the sand on this issue. ...
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Next year, Peter Weis, CIO of Matson, an ocean transportation and logistics company, will see the completion of a long-term IT transformation project that he conceived and nurtured for most of a decade. "We're heading into our eighth and ...
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The Ohio Department of Public Safety successfully moved its mainframe applications to a Windows-based system, and all the work was done in-house. The decision to keep the work in-house prompted much debate and skepticism, but there was no ...
EMC Monday unveiled a high-capacity mainframe disk archive based on its flagship VMAX Symmetrix storage array. The new DLm8000 Disk Library follows three earlier versions of "disk libraries" or disk archive arrays - the DLm1000, DLm2000 ...
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AN investor group has offered $US2.3 billion ($2.18bn) in a takeover bid for business software firm Compuware, saying it has quality assets but has underperformed. Elliott Management Corp, which holds an eight per cent stake in Compuware, ...
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Software and electronic professionals feel the only way to progress in their career is to move jobs, according to a survey. The poll of over 400 engineers, conducted by employment agency JAM recruitment, found 79% were considering a move ...
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Broner Metals Solutions, worldwide specialist provider of integrated MES, supply chain and scheduling solutions for the metals industries announces that it has been selected by ATI Allegheny Ludlum to implement a new scheduling project to ...
US-based Cameron Mutual Insurance has selected StoneRiver's Billing Stream and Claims Stream to help modernise its customer service. According to StoneRiver, the Billing Stream selection represents next step in Cameron's plans to ...
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Computerworld-More than half of next year's expected 5.7%increase in global IT spending will be driven by sales of smartphones,tablets and e-readers,IDC said in a forecast published Friday. IDC projects that mobile device sales will make ...
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Big Switch Networks today unveiled its first software defined networking(SDN)products. Founded in 2010 in Palo Alto,the company has been developing its systems for two and a half years,beta testing them with companies such as Goldman ...
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EDF blamed a major upgrade of its core systems for failing to meet customer complaint handling standards, but expects to have resolved problems by the end of the year. EDF recently migrated millions of customer accounts from multiple ...
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