The growing use of virtualisation has really helped many organisations. Not only have the average utilisation rates of servers and storage improved, but the use of applications and other software packaged ready for installation – ...
Tags: servers, storage, applications, software, virtual machines, virtual images
Shares in technology giants Intel and IBM dropped as both companies showed weakness in their third quarter revenues. Chip manufacturer Intel reported a quarterly revenue of $13.46bn (£8.32bn), down from $14.23bn (£8.8bn) in ...
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US insurance company Nationwide Insurance is using VMware's ITBM tool to manage all the costs associated with running IT services for the business. Nationwide Insurance now offers internal IT users a service catalogue, with pricing, to ...
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With 25,000 employees and 751 branches across the US, Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores had its work cut out when it decided to virtualise SAP and migrate from an IBM mainframe onto x86 servers using VMware technologies. During VMworld ...
Tags: Virtualise Sap, branches, US
Supermarket chain Morrisons is an Oracle shop,using a variety of the firm's products including Enterprise Linux,BIEE(Business Intelligence,Enterprise Edition)for reporting,Oracle Data Integrator(ODI)and real-time data integration tool ...
Tags: Morrison's data warehouse, Supermarket chain, Oracle shop, Jonathan Walsh
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has launched an entry-level enterprise storage subsystem that features block, file and object storage access, with an all-flash array variant planned for later this year. The Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) ...
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Earlier this year,the Ohio Department of Public Safety successfully completed a five-year effort to move its mainframe applications to a Windows-based system,and IT personnel did all of the work in-house. The agency began work on the ...
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Supermarket chain Tesco is investing £65m in a state-of-the-art datacentre as it gears up to expand its web operations outside the UK. The retailer has signed a 15-year contract with datacentre operator Sentrum, to host the ...
Tags: Tesco, Sentrum, IT Smartphones, in-store software
IBM has announced a smaller, faster, more secure mainframe computer to compete with increasingly popular, lower cost, PC-based enterprise servers. The move is aimed at countering a long-term decline in the sales of mainframes and securing ...
Tags: IBM, secure mainframe computer, enterprise servers, long-term decline
IBM is to acquire human resources solutions provider Kenexa for about$1.3bn(£821m)as it looks to compete against the likes of Oracle,SAP and Salesforce.com in the software-as-a-service(SaaS)market. Kenexa uses cloud-based technology ...
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IBM's latest mainframe,the zEnterprise EC12,is big on data analytics and hybrid clouds. This system,announced Tuesday,includes a new 5.5-GHz,six-core processor,versus the 5.2-GHz,quad-core processor that shipped with the zEnterprise ...
Tags: IBM, zEnterprise EC12, processor, flash memory
While"shrink-wrapped"big data analysis solutions offered by the likes of SAP and Oracle will"stimulate imaginations",they will soon give way to superior third-party products that display"greater levels of innovation",cloud infrastructure ...
Tags: SAP, Oracle, shrink-wrapped solutions, Centiq, Computing, CIO
Indian outsourcer Infosys Tuesday unveiled a package of services and technologies that aim to help companies deploying hybrid clouds. Fragmentation of enterprise workloads across technologies and services running on both private clouds ...
Tags: Infosys, self-service cloud hub, outsourcer, cloud system, Indian
Warwickshire-based utility company Severn Trent Water has implemented a SAP business intelligence solution, and taken the opportunity to decommision a mainframe of a type it had been running since the 1980s. Severn Trent Water CTO William ...
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IDG News Service - With the latest release of its Tuxedo transaction processing server (TPC), Oracle is hoping to lure mainframe users onto the cloud. Moving a mainframe application to an Oracle Exalogic system, where it would run on the ...