A California court has ordered Oracle to continue support for the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Last year, Oracle announced it would no longer develop its market-leading database server for the ...
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According to a survey of 56 corporate and governmental organisations conducted by the Ponemon Institute, the average amount paid for all the costs associated with cyber attacks was $8.9 million during the past year. That’s up 6% from ...
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Oracle said yesterday it will continue porting its database and other software to Hewlett-Packard’s Itanium server platform after a California judge ruled that it was obligated to do so. Oracle announced in March 2011 that it would ...
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Robert Youngjohns HP has acquired the services of Microsoft executive Robert Youngjohns to lead its Autonomy information management software division, HP announced Friday. Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch left the company in May. As of ...
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Intel has said it’s on track to launch the next-generation Itanium processor later this year, brushing away any speculation that the processor would reach its end of life in the near future. The next-generation Itanium chip for Unix ...
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Intel used its Developer’s Conference in San Francisco to unveil a desktop computer prototype that has a display that can double as a 27-inch tablet with a four-hour battery life. Slate producers like Samsung, with its Galaxy Note ...
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Dell mapped out the next phase of its data centre strategy on Thursday with new hardware and software that it says will make it faster and cheaper for customers to deploy new hardware and applications. The new products include the Active ...
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The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has stuck with old ways of working and will contract a single outsourcing giant for its desktop management services contract. DCLG has been given the go-ahead to refresh its IT ...
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Moves to subsume Autonomy into HP have lent an increasing amount of irony to the company’s name, following the departure of founder Mike Lynch and the expansion of its key tools to become add-ons across a much broader range of ...
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh (WWL) NHS trust moved its systems into the cloud to solve immediate business challenges and prepare for a future of shared services. Last year WWL NHS trust was faced with major IT challenges as its ...
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Cisco has reportedly cut ties with Chinese telecom vendor ZTE after allegations that ZTE sold Cisco gear to Iran. In June, a Reuters story revealed that Cisco, HP and Oracle gear was being sold to an Iranian mobile operator despite U.S. ...
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An IT system integrating disparate national border controls has reduced visa abuse across the borderless Schengen Area of continental Europe. The Visa Information System (VIS) is used by the European Commission (EC) to enable states in ...
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Apple retained the top spot in a survey released by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index, which also found that the tablet market is spurring PC makers to improve the quality of their products. The satisfaction rate for computers, ...
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Oracle redeemed itself this week when it pledged to resume porting its software to HP’s Itanium-based servers, but it should never have pulled that support from a critical platform as it did in March 2011, according to users and ...
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Microsoft officially launched Windows Server 2012 today in Dubai, describing it as a cornerstone of the Cloud OS that provides customers with a modern platform for the world’s applications. Samer Abu Ltaif, General Manager, ...
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