Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has told shareholders that the world's largest software firm is a software firm no longer–but instead,a"devices and services company". In his annual letter to investors,Ballmer said there is ...
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Three storage suppliers used VMworld Europe 2012 to launch converged storage stacks. Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) launched 11 Unified Computing Platform stacks, NetApp added SME-targeted ExpressPods to its existing FlexPod converged stack ...
VMware is launching a suite of products to help IT executives manage workspace apps on consumers' mobile devices – including Apple iPhones – securely. This will help enterprises regain control of IT amid growing ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft today disavowed comments made by its Czech subsidiary that the company will roll out iOS and Android apps of its Office suite early next year. "The information shared by our Czech subsidiary is not accurate. We ...
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Computerworld - Four purported Microsoft TV advertisements for Windows 8 have leaked to the Web, and strut the operating system's new "Modern" user interface (UI). The ads, which each run 54 seconds, were first revealed by the Israeli ...
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Computerworld - A new survey of 753 mobile device users and IT professionals in U.S. small businesses revealed that most are unfamiliar with mobile device management (MDM) technology, even though 79% have deployed smartphones to at least ...
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At VMworld in Barcelona yesterday, VMware executives fleshed out the company's software-defined datacentre vision of storage virtualised from the server hypervisor. This will provide pools of data capacity in native virtual disk format ...
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Mark Adams-Wright, CIO of Suffolk County Council is a firm believer in making changes to the business gradually. He is overseeing an IT change that is supporting a major transformation in the role of the council – from a provider of ...
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VSX is presenting a mobile application for the pump selection system Spaix at this year?s exhibition within the scope of the Pump Users International Forum taking place in Dusseldorf,Germany.The app complements the multi-platform concept of ...
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Polycom plans to break down one more set of barriers to videoconferencing early next year with a cloud-based software platform that can set up sessions with anyone who uses Facebook,Skype,or certain other online services. The ...
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Mozilla last week released the first public preview of a Firefox browser that runs in Windows 8's touch-first"Modern"or"Metro"user interface(UI). The Firefox app for Modern--the UI dubbed"Metro"until Microsoft ditched the term over ...
UK air traffic control provider NATS has deployed a Violin Memory all-flash array solid state storage system to support a planned 6,000-seat virtualised desktop infrastructure(VDI)roll-out. The Violin all-flash array will provide ...
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Taipei,Oct.4,2012(CENS)--With ever more people choosing all-in-one(AIO)personal computers(PC)instead of traditional desktop PCs in recent years,shipments of AIO PCs will likely outstrip 20%growth year on year(YoY)in 2013,driving up revenues ...
Although the server market is mature, it will experience strong growth through to 2015, as large customers such as Google, Amazon and Facebook will demand servers to fuel their datacentres' growth, says Gartner. "The server market was ...
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European regulations for the gambling sector,launching new products and driving revenue growth as a recently floated public company put enormous pressure on the IT team at Betfair. But chief technology officer(CTO)Tony McAlister,in post ...
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