IBM and Oracle revealed more details this week about new RISC chips they’re building for server customers, the Power7+ in the case of IBM and the T5 for Oracle. The Unix server market continues to contract as x86-based systems gain ...
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IBM has struck up a partnership with AT&T to offer secure shared cloud services to customers over private networks rather than the public Internet, the companies announced. The service to be delivered from early next year is targeted at ...
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Halcyon Software, the global leader in systems management software, has announced the immediate availability of Authority Swapper 10.0, the latest version of the access control tool for the IBM i. The solution allows IT managers to grant ...
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IBM has demonstrated that it is commercially feasible to bake optical circuitry into silicon processors using existing fabrication techniques, which could set the stage for radically faster and lower-cost computer communications. Silicon ...
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In a move to expand its portfolio of information governance software,IBM is acquiring e-discovery software vendor StoredIQ. Founded in 2001,StoredIQ offers e-discovery systems that help organizations index,store,de-duplicate and delete ...
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Judy Klickstein is a cloud believer. As CIO of Cambridge Health Alliance, a midsized healthcare provider just outside of Boston, she's excited about the efficiencies cloud computing can bring to her organization. Outsourcing management of ...
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Financial services regulation is an industry in itself with 140,000 pages of regulations published over the last two years, but organisations could streamline the process of meeting regulations by getting IT involved in the process earlier. ...
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BPM Wave International AG, a leading provider of Business Process Improvement Solutions for Oil and Gas, Energy, Manufacturing and Legal markets and iOctane, a major Australian process solutions consulting organization, have teamed up to ...
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Paul Coby faces his second Christmas as IT director at department store chain John Lewis. Since joining the retailer in March 2011, after many years as CIO at British Airways, he has embraced what he calls the "retail revolution" brought ...
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For its most recent financial quarter, IBM experienced declining revenue and flat income, though it still managed to deliver increased earnings per share. In the third quarter, IBM generated US$24.7 billion in revenue, down 5 percent from ...
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Google has started publicly testing an initial set of enterprise social networking (ESN) features for Google+, adding a key collaboration component for Google Apps customers. Google first indicated last year that it planned to release an ...
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Lenovo today announced a series of managerial changes including Oliver Ebel taking on the role of Executive Director and General Manager for Lenovo in the Middle East & Africa (MEA). Moving from his current position as Executive Director ...
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The extension of the Solvency II compliance deadline from November of this year to January 2014 can be seen as both reassuring and concerning from a data management perspective. The European Union directive, aimed at regulating insurance ...
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More than 120 students were awarded £200,000 in scholarships and awards this week, as the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) rewarded hard-working UK students that choose to study computer science and engineering ...
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Enkata, the leader in cloud-based people operations software, today announced that Mark Vashon has joined the company as Vice President of Sales. Mark brings more than 25 years of experience from SuccessFactors, Borland, Extensity, ...
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