The industry that you expect to hit the IT headlines on a regular basis has not let us down in the last 12 months,despite continued tough market conditions. With customer demands changing,banks have to innovate around things like mobile ...
Tags: Financial Services, IT, bank, mobile banking, Barclays, RBS
Analyst firm IHS published an important study last week. It predicts that, for the first time ever, PC shipments would drop year-over-year; for 2012, total shipments will drop 1.2 percent. IDC and Gartner agree, noting that third quarter PC ...
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The Apple effect is rubbing off on Citrix, with the desktop virtualisation specialist posting 16% year-over-year growth for the second quarter of 2012. Sales of iPads and tablet computers have driven adoption of XenApps, said Citrix CEO ...
Tags: Apple, desktop virtualisation, Citrix, iPads, tablet computers
IBM's revenues remained relatively flat in the second quarter 2012, although the company reported strong growth in its cloud, analytics and smarter planet initiatives. Total revenues for the quarter fell by 3% to $25.8bn due to currency ...
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EMC is showing heavy interest in boosting its share of the data center market by moving from storage and related services to servers. Over the past two years, EMC has announced a number of partnerships and products that slipped its toe ...
Tags: EMC, heavy interest, data center, servers, China
As we've seen in recent years, natural disasters can lead to long-term downtime for organizations. Because earthquakes, hurricanes, snow storms or other events can put data centers and other corporate facilities out of commission for a ...
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EMC Momentum 2012 opened in Vienna with a slew of product releases and updates. At its 19th Momentum conference, EMC announced a series of product releases across its Information Intelligence Group (IIG) portfolio. EMC announced ...
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Does banking have the allure of a new Apple product? Barclays Bank thinks it does. Barclays is attempting to redefine banking as it tries to mimic the success of companies like Apple, Amazon and Google. PingIt, the bank's real-time ...
Tags: banking, Apple product, Barclays, payment application
Microsoft has wasted thousands of pounds worth of electricity at its Redmond Quincy datacentre to avoid a $210,000 (129,000) penalty for underuse from its energy provider, according to the New York Times. According to the report, ...
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Customers of AWS public cloud are reaping the benefits of cost savings, elasticity and scalability, but many are still wary of putting sensitive applications in the cloud, despite having a "cloud-first" and "cloud-ready" strategy. At an ...
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The VMworld Europe 2012 winners are: Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: Tiger Wheel & Tyre Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: The National Trust Best virtualisation for disaster recovery project: ...
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IT infrastructure specialists LETN announce the opportunity to buy Storage Magazine's Product of the Year - NetApp OnCommand Balance - at a remarkable 50% reduction. READING, UK, August 11, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- OnCommand Balance ...
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With an extensive portfolio of services, dished out with a self-service portal, and priced with charge back mechanism, the Siva group is operating arguably one of the most mature private clouds in the country. Organization: The US$3 ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made it possible to connect to its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service using static routing, while also allowing enterprises to run SQL Server within the private cloud, the company said on Thursday. Using a ...
Tags: Amazon Web Services, AWS, Virtual Private Cloud, VPC, SQL Server
While several of the largest storage vendors, such as EMC, Hewlett-Packard and NetApp, have entered into agreements with server, software and networking vendors to offer bundled products, purpose-built products are just beginning to emerge. ...
Tags: storage vendors, EMC, HP, NetApp, server, software, networking