Windows 8 is finally here and the stakes are sky high for Microsoft. "We're so happy to be here today and to celebrate the global availability of a new era of Windows and Windows-powered PCs," said Steven Sinofsky, president of ...
Amazon Web Services has made it possible to roll out Python-based applications using Elastic Beanstalk, which aims to make it easier to deploy and manage applications in its cloud, the company said on Sunday. Elastic Beanstalk, which is ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle may soon fully transition away from the much-maligned, Flash-based version of its support portal over to a new HTML edition next week, according to an official blog post on Thursday. Next Friday, July 13, the ...
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Today, Concurrency, Inc. announced it has been named to Microsoft's elite Azure Circle, a group of specialized Microsoft partner organizations that provide deployment planning services for organizations migrating to the public cloud. ...
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European businesses will only need three quarters of a desk per employee by 2020 due to the impact of remote working. According to a survey of almost 2,000 senior IT decision makers commissioned by Citrix, large organisations are already ...
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Allowing employees to bring their own devices to work is causing new challenges, including what happens when a device needs to be wiped or employees want to sell their smartphone or tablet. Mobile security and BYOD (bring your own device) ...
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In May of this year, Dan Sciscente of Communi-T made the 2,300 mile trek to sunny Florida to reveal his company's recent updates to the popular Communi-T program, which allows clients to better utilize their SAP solutions. Communi-T ...
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IT departments must be prepared to renegotiate IT support and invest in mobile device management (MDM) to support staff using their own devices at work. A survey of 3,796 consumers across 17 different countries by analyst Ovum has found ...
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More employees of the ‘Generation Y’ age group are ducking IT policies to use their personal devices and applications at work than corporations realise. A study from Cisco, conducted by InsightExpress, showed 53% of IT ...
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Electronics firm Philips has called on skills specialist The Open Group to reorganise its IT workforce. The move enables Philips to identify the skills already available within its company and to create a clear career development path ...
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CIOs across Europe are predicting their IT budgets will increase by an average of 2% in 2013, despite the downturn. But investment on capital projects will slow, as operational spending assumes higher proportion of the IT budget, research ...
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If attackers want to get in to an organisation's information systems, they will, says Frank Coggrave, general manager for Europe at e-discovery firm Guidance Software. "Many IT departments still have their heads in the sand on this issue. ...
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Citrix predicts that the rise of consumerisation and the Bring-Your-Own (BYO) phenomenon will force IT departments to focus on the challenge of apps and data governance. 2012 saw the proliferation of smart phone and tablet use, followed ...
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IT staff are spending 30% of their time carrying out basic tasks and are growing frustrated with the lack of time left to focus on transformational work. The average IT worker is also only using half of the skills they possess as a result ...
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VMware has fleshed out its desktop virtualisation strategy with a suite of products designed to make desktop computing more manageable by using workspace aggregation. As 30 June, 2014 – the end of support date for Windows XP – ...