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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The growing use of virtualisation has really helped many organisations. Not only have the average utilisation rates of servers and storage improved, but the use of applications and other software packaged ready for installation – ...
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Scientists at IBM have showcased computer chips featuring carbon nanotube technology,and apparently built with standard manufacturing techniques. This new approach,hopes IBM,will open up the way for commercial mass-production of carbon ...
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Holland-based LeaseWeb has opted for storage software from Nexenta on commodity hardware as a platform for its cloud computing platform. The company chose Nexenta over HP, IBM, NetApp and open source storage products for the project, which ...
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Computerworld-There will be a sea change in the non-volatile memory(NVM)market over the next five years,with more dense and reliable technologies challenging dominant NAND flash memory now used in solid-state drives(SSD)and embedded in ...
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IDG News Service-When it comes to analyzing big data,software packages such as Hadoop or the R statistical language come readily to mind.But at least one company,AppNexus,also relies on the Python programming language to help conduct ...
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Novaled, a leader in the organic light-emitting diode (OLEDs) field, today announced it is named in the prestigious 2012 Global Cleantech 100 list, produced by Cleantech Group, a leading research firm focused on global cleantech innovation. ...
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Insurance company NFU Mutual is to automate its paper-based claims handling using business process management tools from Tibco. The multimillion pound project will help the rural insurer streamline its claims-management processes across ...
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The Department for Education(DfE)has announced scholarships to encourage graduates into teaching computer science. The British Computer Society(BCS)is managing the project for the DfE,with the department providing the funding alongside ...
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Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)posted third-quarter revenue figures of$1.27 billion(£0.79bn),a 10 per cent decrease on Q2 figures,and a 25 per cent year-on-year decline.This was in line with revised guidance issued by the firm ...
Tags: AMD, chip, job cuts, computing devices, steep decline in the PC market
Computerworld-Google today reported a drop in profit and revenue for the third quarter,an unexpected slip that highlighted an online industry still struggling to make money on a growing mobile market. Google's sagging earnings report ...
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Shares in technology giants Intel and IBM dropped as both companies showed weakness in their third quarter revenues. Chip manufacturer Intel reported a quarterly revenue of $13.46bn (£8.32bn), down from $14.23bn (£8.8bn) in ...
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IBM has reported flat net profits of$3.8bn as demand for its software services and tight cost management offset the effect of a stronger dollar. IBM said that,excluding UK pension-related charges,profits rose 3%to$3.9bn in the third ...
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Computerworld - Scientists studying Earth system processes, including climate change, are now working with one of the largest supercomputers on the planet. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has begun using a 1.5 petaflop ...
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Network World-Midokura,a Japanese startup focused on network virtualization,this week said it is entering the U.S.market with a distributed software defined network product designed for Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS). The companys ...
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