The VCE partnership involving EMC, its subsidiary VMware and Cisco will not change, even after Cisco last month expanded its partnership with EMC rival NetApp to sell preconfigured cloud architectures. "I feel the partnership is ...
U.S. corporations tend to be far less concerned with the brand of mobile devices in the workplace and more worried about which employees have access to company data, according to a Dell survey of 1,500 senior IT managers in 10 countries. ...
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Smartphones running the open source Ubuntu operating system will start shipping in October, although it isn't clear if they will be available in the U.S., according to a report. Mark Shuttleworth, the CEO of Canonical Ltd., told CIO ...
Suppliers to supermarket chain Morrisons have been left counting the cost after a glitch with a new computer system meant that many went unpaid. The company said that the cause of the glitch had now been identified. It is currently ...
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Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) saved about £74m on IT costs between 2011 and 2012, according to the National Audit Office (NAO). In its report, the NAO found that HMRC had saved a total of £296m over the period, with ...
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According to a new report commissioned by ClickSoftware Technologies, the number of mobile workers across the globe will reach 1.3 billion by 2015 but indications show that companies are not ready to tap this trend. Forty-six percent of ...
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Could a return to an integrated technology 'stack' turn out to be the perfect way to build and grow private clouds for the enterprise? HP thinks so - and has some strong arguments to back up its claims, too. CBR reports. In April last ...
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Over 200 delegates have already signed up to join global cloud experts at the third annual Cloud World Forum MENA, event organisers said this week. The forum will take place from March 19 to 20 at the JW Marriott Marquis in Dubai. ...
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Government CIO Andy Nelson has been appointed as CIO at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Nelson was appointed government CIO in April 2012 to add to his role as CIO of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), which he started in ...
Computer Service Partners is proud to announce that Patrick Spampinato has recently joined the team as a new Virtual CIO. He will be focused on designing IT solutions that align with CSP clients' corporate strategic initiatives. He is ...
Gartner on Sunday announced the speakers for its first flagship conference in Dubai, called the Gartner Symposium/IT Expo, which will be held from March 5 to 7 at Madinat Jumeirah. The keynote speakers will be Gabor George Burt, an ...
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It seems counterintuitive, but last year, Aberdeen Group found that the costs for a company with 1,000 mobile devices go up by $170,000, on average, when they adopt BYOD. Why? Hidden costs. Premiums go up because employees no longer have ...
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The Green Bay Packers organization knows that a winning football team and the iconic Lambeau Field are enormous fan draws. But even a storied team with 100,000 people on a waiting list for season tickets feels the effects of competing with ...
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Steve Hankins CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Logistics provider Globe Express Services has hired Steve Hankins as executive vice president, chief financial officer and chief information officer. The company said Hankins, a former CFO of Tyson ...
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A selection of CIOs were honoured as the top 50 in the region today at CNME’s annual CIO 50 Awards and Forum event at The Address Hotel, Marina, in Dubai. The award ceremony recognises the head decision maker of 50 organisations who ...
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