The founder of the UpTime Institute, Kenneth G. Brill, 69, died Tuesday, the institute's parent company announced. Brill, an electrical engineer by training, is credited with playing an enormous role in shaping the modern data center ...
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One of the biggest challenges facing the IT industry is determining how to boost the number of skilled cyber security professionals in order to combat an epidemic of cyber crime. That's according to Jon Ramsey, CTO of Dell SecureWorks, the ...
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The EU cookie Law "is a disaster" according to HP's privacy officer EMEA, Daniel Pradelles. The law is part of the EU Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications, and means that websites need to obtain users' consent before ...
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Middle Eastern businesses want to invest in IT during 2013, but they’re struggling to find skilled candidates to fill posts, according to new research released by CompTIA, a non-profit association for the IT industry. According to ...
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Global technology consultancy ThoughtWorks has launched its latest Technology Radar as part of the company’s commitment to revolutionising the IT industry. The Radar provides insight and advice into the cutting-edge techniques, ...
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c(HDS) has released new solutions and services that it says enable enterprises to adopt cloud computing more readily, enable their mobile workforce more securely and reliably, and provide a better IT experience to their end users. The ...
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Data from IT employment firm CWJobs.co.uk shows the IT jobs market is continuing to bounce back in certain areas, with vacancy levels now only 15 per cent below Q1 2008, when the global recession struck. While the electronics side of the ...
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The U.S. tech industry added nearly 64,000 software-related jobs last year, but as the workforce expanded, the average size of workers’ pay cheques declined by nearly 2 percent. There are multiple theories for the decline in pay, ...
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The role of IT in setting strategic priorities and achieving business success is growing for companies throughout the world, according to new research published by CompTIA, the non-profit association for the IT industry. The International ...
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The 2013 Budget has been hailed as "sound" for the IT industry but could have been better if certain measures were employed earlier, analysts say. "It's quite a sound budget from an IT perspective," Ovum Australia research director Kevin ...
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Track forward a decade. Terror has defeated privacy concerns as every CCTV camera in the land, now filming in crytal-clear high definition, is linked to law enforcement and powerful data sifting systems. Sensor technology like that found ...
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The traditional structure by which payments are made in the UK needs to be vastly simplified, with retailers and other merchants dealing directly with customers' banks - not via "merchant acquirers" and other middlemen. The new structure ...
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Jamal Abuissa, President and CEO, Omnix According to a recent survey by technology solution provider Omnix, the IT software and services sector in the GCC is forecast to grow between 10 and 25 percent. The survey was made up of a ...
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The IT industry is in the midst of its largest disruption to date, according to Brian Gallagher, President of EMC's Enterprise Storage Division. Speaking at EMC's CIO Connect Middle East event in Dubai on Wednesday, Gallagher said that ...
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THE technology employment sector is expected to strengthen in the second quarter, with hiring experts forecasting a turnaround in the market. Hays senior regional director Peter Noblet said "positivity and growth" would return in Q2. ...
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