Network World-Four things are clear from Ciscos better-than-expected Q1 FY 2013 results: Ciscos resolve to become the No.1 vendor in IT Collaboration and TelePresence remain challenging product areas for the company Europe and the public ...
NASA is scrambling to implement full disk encryption on agency laptops after one containing unencrypted personal information on a"large"number of people was recently stolen. Agency employees were told of the October 31 theft of the ...
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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) plans to consolidate its data warehousing estate in a bid to cut costs and improve its effectiveness. It will create a consolidated data warehouse to support its burgeoning range of business intelligence ...
CIO-WASHINGTON--Government agencies have been feeling the squeeze in their budgets for some time,but looking ahead the spending cuts can only be expected to slice deeper,regardless of whether or not lawmakers manage to avoid the so-called ...
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Existing enterprise mobile device management [MDM] solutions come with "really serious constraints," Westminster Council CIO Ben Goward has told Computing. Speaking at Aditi Technologies' GoCloud 8 conference in London today, Goward said ...
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With SaaS(software as a service)having become a preferred deployment model for new software purchases,customers should be entitled to a clear-cut set of rights and expectations from vendors,a new report from analyst firm Constellation ...
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During the Gartner Symposium, earlier in November the analyst firm predicted that IT departments will be expanding their budget to support bring-your-own-device (BYOD). As Computer Weekly previously reported, Gartner expects IT budgets ...
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Government spy agency GCHQ has unveiled a cyber incident response scheme that is intended to help public-sector organisations that form part of the UK's critical national infrastructure in dealing with cyber attacks. The pilot scheme, ...
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The Government Digital Service (GDS) estimates it will save £1.8bn per year moving offline services to digital channels, according to a copy of its draft Digital Strategy seen by Computer Weekly. The focus of the strategy is on ...
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As the US presidential election gathers pace,Silicon Valley looks on anxiously to see what effect more than 100 million American votes will make to the technology industry. Further reading US government agency drops BlackBerrys for ...
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Guess?Inc.announced the resignations of two of its executive officers,J.Michael Prince,Chief Operating Officer,and Dennis Secor,Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company.Both are leaving to pursue other ...
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After a lengthy and often heated consultation, the government has finally released its new open standards principles intended to level the supplier playing field and avoid product lock-in. But is the document a blueprint for a radically ...
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Disconnecting Microsoft heritage Low cost iPhones Deploying MobileIron London Borough of Brent is planning to provide staff with up to 3,000 iPads and iPhones as it phases out Blackberry smartphones. London Borough of Brent will use ...
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CIO-The smell of the perfume,the drape of the fabric,the grain of the leather--these sensory experiences are about the only advantage that brick-and-mortar retailers have over online stores when trying to sell merchandise. Unfortunately ...
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As General Motors brings its heavily outsourced IT environment in-house, we examine whether the decision is likely to trigger other companies into similar transitions or whether it will be a one-off. General Motors (GM) announced earlier ...
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