American Airlines said it plans to purchase about 17,000 first-generation Samsung Galaxy Note devices for use by cabin crew members during flights. Flight attendants will use the combination smartphone/tablet to record passengers’ ...
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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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According to Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of software tools company Software AG, the time for big IT transformation is over. People no longer buy exciting IT. Rather, IT must compete for investment. The question is, where will this investment ...
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SAP has certified Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run its business intelligence (BI) applications on the AWS cloud, enabling enterprises to gain more agility and infrastructure cost savings, as well as to standardise their use of public cloud. ...
“Royal Mail wanted a CIO who is comfortable in a really volatile and changing environment to drive change. And I am. I joined because the scale of the challenge is huge and I would be mad to say no to that.” Catherine Doran ...
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The world is becoming increasingly connected, so the need for security and privacy is integral to modern society says Raj Samani, vice-president and CTO of McAfee Europe. With everything becoming connected, from smart meters to cars, ...
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Activision has adopted newly-launched public cloud services from Salesforce in order to communicate better with its customers. The company – most-renowned for the Call of Duty gaming series – has 7,700 employees and makes $4bn ...
Many global organisations have failed to implement a data management strategy but will have to as IT leaders need to support big data volumes, velocity and variety, according to a new Gartner report. In its Predicts 2013: Big Data and ...
Online retailers are losing business because they are failing to exploit the full potential of search technology, analyst group Gartner has claimed. Despite improvements in search technology, retailers only rate a B- when it comes to ...
The government's CIO,Andy Nelson(pictured),has spelled out his future wishes for the ongoing G-Cloud project,which include a structure more like Apple's App Store,and a service contract that can be shifted easily between suppliers. ...
Tags: App Store, service, G-Cloud, Government
RSA chief Art Coviello kicked off RSA Conference Europe 2012 by highlighting the need for enterprises to adopt new ways to ensure cyber security. He said IT leaders should adopt an intelligence-based approach to security that makes use of ...
Tags: Security, Information Sharing, Privacy, Internet
The CEO of Linux-based software solutions company LinuxIT, Peter Dawes-Huish, slammed the public sector G-Cloud system this week, likening the current service level to a military mission "with an entry route and no exit route" that is "not ...
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Cameleon Software(Paris:CAM),announced today that the SMABTP Group,the leader in mutual insurance for the construction and building industry,chose to deploy its product configuration and guided selling solution.in a multichannel ...
Former deputy chief information officer(CIO)Liam Maxwell has been appointed as the government's first ever chief technology officer(CTO)in a Whitehall IT shake-up. Maxwell will now report to Mike Bracken,executive director of the ...
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The CEO of Linux-based software solutions company LinuxIT,Peter Dawes-Huish,slammed the public sector G-Cloud system this week,likening the current service level to a military mission"with an entry route and no exit route"that is"not just ...
Tags: G Cloud, suicidal mission with no exit, LinuxIT CEO, Peter DawesHuish