Hellman & Friedman, a private equity investment firm has reached an agreement to acquire insurance software provider Applied Systems, from Bain Capital, in a transaction valued at nearly $1.8bn. Other parties who will also invest the ...
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K.Mohan and Co is one of the leading apparel manufacturers in India with factories across 6 locations and a 40-year history in manufacturing for the world's leading fashion brands like GAP, Marks and Spencer, All Saints, Polo Ralph Lauren ...
Cisco Systems’s third annual Global Cloud Index forecasts that global cloud traffic will more than quadruple, from 1.2 zettabytes in 2012 to 5.3 ZB in 2017. That works out to about 443 exabytes a month, or about 476 billion GB. ...
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BT has announced a new phase of investments into the economies of the Middle East, Africa, Turkey, and Asia Pacific. BT hopes that by launching more competitive capabilities across a larger number of countries and delivering a ...
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Microsoft is planning end-to-end encryption of its internet traffic following concerns that the company had its network security breached as part of the National Security Agency's (NSA) internet surveillance programme. The revelation, ...
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As head of IT at Mercury Engineering and now chairman of SAP's UK and Ireland user group, Philip Adams has spent his first year pushing hard for changes and closer relations with the vendor. Computing sat down with Adams at the group's 25th ...
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Symantec plans to close down its Backup Exec.cloud service, saying it lacks mobile and content-sharing features and wouldn't be the right platform for delivering them. Backup Exec.cloud is a pure cloud-based offering designed to make it ...
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Several opportunities are predicted to emerge in the coming months as more data is generated by machines or things other than human beings. Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific says that 2014 will see more IT buyers and sellers focused on the ...
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Schneider Electric representatives used the company's Power To The Cloud event to underline the importance of smart cities, and its own Next-Generation Mission Critical IT infrastructure policy. The policy's aim is to use smart city ...
Cambridgeshire County Council has selected Ipswitch File Transfer's MOVEit solution to securely transfer its data and manage information across 100 locations. The council transfers data across a shared network of five districts, 69 ...
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The chairman of SAP UK and Ireland's user group today admitted that his fears over the company's approach to licensing measures were "probably worse than the reality". After imploring SAP to come clean - "If there is favouratism or not, ...
SAP co-chief executive Jim Hagemann-Snabe's recent comments about the company's low expectations for profit from the UK cloud industry have been misconstrued and are "not true" of the firm's actual goals, VP of cloud strategy Sven Denecken ...
Steve Ballmer’s audacious vision of “One Microsoft, all the time,” delivering a single, seamless user experience across a wide range of devices, will not be achieved without digital bloodshed. Windows will die, a ...
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Making its Guangzhou Auto Show debut, Qoros, an international car brand headquartered in China, announced today the prices for its first volume car – the Qoros 3 Sedan – as the last step of its market introduction. Owing to ...
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Rackspace Hosting, the open cloud company, has been selected by online Indian ethnic wear store Cbazaar to host and support its online sales backbone using the Rackspace Hybrid Cloud. “As an online retailer, it’s imperative ...