Payment processor VocaLink is using Precise application performance management tools to ensure the applications that power the bank automated clearing system(Bacs)and faster payments are running optimally. VocaLink handles all the ...
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Let's talk about software. When that topic comes up at Modern, we're generally talking about warehouse management systems. And for good reason. During the late 1990's, when I began writing about materials handling automation, end users were ...
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The Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide will map the IT buying cycle of our readership onto relevant editorial that will inform and educate readers and help them towards making the right buying decision. On a three week cycle the publication ...
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IDG News Service-The chief European and U.S.antitrust regulators will meet Monday in Brussels,and the investigations both are conducting into Google's market domination is likely to be high on the agenda. Jon Leibowitz,chairman of the ...
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There is a difference in the way U.S.and Indian IT firms report their headcounts,and it tells a lot about globalization. Indian firms diligently report hiring quarter-to-quarter.It's a key metric and a source of pride.Among those ...
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All-flash array maker Whiptail has announced an upgrade to its Racerunner operating system that will allow its Invicta NAND flash arrays to scale to 30 nodes and up to 360TB of storage. The all-flash array company claims that scaling to ...
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IDG News Service-Worldwide server shipments went up in the third quarter of 2012,but revenue from those sales dropped due to economic uncertainty in some parts of the world,research firm Gartner said in a study released on Wednesday. ...
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Lectra, world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials—textiles, leather, industrial fabrics, and composite materials—is pleased to announce the appointment of Maurizio Sapio as ...
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The Qiang ethnic minority lives mainly in the counties of the Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan; Maowen Qiang Autonomous County is the largest area that is home to the Qiang. The Qiang have a profound history of over 3,000 years as ...
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A vulnerability in Oracle's Java software that attackers can use to remotely seize control of systems running the program is being sold for"five digits". The security hole is being sold by an established member of an ...
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Tape media and drive companies have begun shipping the sixth generation of linear-tape open(LTO)technology,which like previous generation upgrades,significantly increases the capacity and data throughput capabilities for backup and archive ...
Hardware giant Hewlett-Packard has called in the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) after uncovering what it claims are accounting irregularities at intelligent-search software vendor Autonomy, which it acquired for $11.1bn (£7bn) in August ...
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The sales pitch for servers in the cloud has always leaned on the word"commodity."You push a button,and voilA,a root password is yours within minutes.The machines in the cloud may not be exactly what you would order if you were filling out ...
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Mike Gibbons,CIO of building materials company Aggregate Industries,talks to Computer Weekly about why regulatory intervention made the company realise the importance of its data assets,and the reason investment in IT is more important now ...
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SAP's UK and Ireland managing director, Tim Noble, failed to dispel increasing unrest among the firm's UK user base at the SAP User Conference 2012 in Manchester this afternoon, as group leaders came away dissatisfied on licensing issues ...
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