Specialist Computer Holdings has sold off its distribution arm, Specialist Distribution Group to Tech Data Corporation for an estimated value of €277m (£219m). The move will see SCH concentrate on its remaining higher-margin ...
Visual Studio is no longer simply an IDE, no longer a place you go just to write and debug C/C++ code. It has long since become something of a development mashup. It's where you go to tackle any task in the development process, regardless ...
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The year 2012 will go down in history as the year when people voted with their wallets and decided that tablets are good enough for work. The success of tablets has driven people to bring their own devices to work. Supporting these ...
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The ROAMview system provides property owners and small municipalities the ability to efficiently manage outdoor lighting using a wireless monitoring and control system. ATLANTA–Acuity Brands,Inc.(NYSE:AYI;"Company"),a market leader ...
The general availability of Windows Server 2012 today will see Microsoft’s strongest push yet to target VMware users. Microsoft describes the new operating system (OS) – an update to the three-year-old Windows Server 2008 OS ...
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The latest market share data from IDC shows that Linux is fuelling a surge in demand for server hardware. According to IDC's latest EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Server Tracker, Linux was the only operating system to experience ...
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Following its acquisition of Wyse earlier this year, Dell has announced it will be bolstering its software virtualisation portfolio with the acquisition of Quest Software. Dell said the $2.4bn acquisition will provide critical components ...
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Windows Azure customers will be able to use Linux-based operating systems, open source tools and languages for the first time now that Microsoft Azure officially supports those offerings. The move to support Linux and open source ...
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Microsoft's free Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) tool is now available for download. The tool is used to convert virtual machines that run on VMware products into a format compatible with Microsoft's own virtualization environment, ...
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Ubuntu 13.04, scheduled for release in April next year, will have some of its key parts developed under wraps with the help of community members who can be trusted not to talk in their sleep, Canonical's founder Mark Shuttleworth wrote in a ...
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Increased regulation, reduced profits and changing customer demands are driving banks to replace home-grown software with commercially available alternatives. Simon Paris, head of global banking at SAP, said the strategic change has been ...
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Data specialists can earn 20% more than other IT professionals and there has been an increase in data roles of 43% in the past year. Research from e-skills UK, sponsored by SAS, suggests demand for big data analysts will double over the ...
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The UK national Cyber Security Challenge has launched another competition aimed at addressing a critical Linux security skills gap. The majority of internet infrastructure is based on Linux, but Linux is rarely taught in schools and Linux ...
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As workloads expanded at Dublin Airport Authority, it launched a major IT infrastructure overhaul earlier this year with HP’s converged infrastructure and VMware vSphere platform. In under a year, the virtualisation project has given ...
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“There was a moment at the end of the closing ceremony where we breathed a sigh of relief,” says BBC CTO John Linwood. It’s not surprising given the scale of Linwood’s task, having delivered 2.8 petabytes of data ...
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