The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) is set to abandon issuing staff with BlackBerry smartphones as the council looks to move towards a Windows 8-based ecosystem. It forms part of RBWM's overall strategy of moving towards a ...
Tags: Blackberry, Windows 8 Phones, RBWM Council
Software giant Oracle and cloud CRM company Salesforce.com will announce a new alliance next week that will see the two companies "unite" their respective clouds. "Larry and I both agree we need to unite our clouds," said Marc Benioff, ...
A string of footballers and other celebrities have been accused of using an extravagant data centre construction scheme in a bid to avoid tax. The data centres, on the Cobalt business park just outside Newcastle, are completely empty two ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
As the consumerisation of IT takes a tighter grip on IT users' daily lives, and BYOD becomes an increasingly common way to work, the importance placed on developments in the devices market has grown, even in the last six months. Further ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Mobile, Tablet
Microsoft is set to invest almost $700m (£455m) in a new data centre to support cloud-based services offered by its upcoming Xbox One games console and Office 365. Known as ‘Project Mountain', the data centre will be based in ...
Tags: Microsoft, Xbox One, Cloud-Based Services, Office 365
Alcatel-Lucent‘s strategic shift from telecom network equipment provider (NEP) to IP networking and ultra-broadband access specialist is indicative of the high speed at which market dynamics have changed, according to Ovum. The ...
The ‘Internet of Everything’ (IoE) is expected to enable global private-sector businesses to generate at least $613 billion in global profits in 2013, according to a study by Cisco. The IoE Value Index report — ...
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Google is hoping to appease developers that want better portability for their hosted apps by working with Red Hat on running App Engine in private clouds. The Google Cloud Platform team has been working with Red Hat’s JBoss ...
Tags: Google, Red Hat, Private Clouds, App Engine
Oracle hasn’t even officially released its 12c database yet, but CEO Larry Ellison has already revealed plans for the version that will follow, 12.1c, which apparently will be Oracle’s most direct response yet to SAP’s ...
Tags: Oracle, 12c Database, SAP HANA
Lite-On Technology has reported consolidated revenues of NT$216.05 billion (US$7.2 billion) for 2012 with net profits of NT$7.53 billion, an on-year growth of 4%. The firm plans to deal out a 2012 cash dividend of NT$2.35 and stock dividend ...
Tags: Lite-on Technology, Lighting, Cash Dividend
The Lite-On Group predicts 2013 revenues of its LED business will exceed NT$20 billion (US$671 million) while revenues for automobile electronics will reach NT$10 billion, according to group chairman Raymond Soong. Lite-On Technology ...
Tags: 2013 chairman LED lighting, Lite-On revenues, Lighting
CERN is making the infrastructure that handles the data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) more flexible by upgrading it with OpenStack for virtualization and Puppet for configuration management. The research organization's objective is ...
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Capgemini is introducing a hybrid cloud orchestration service focused on Microsoft products, although enterprises will be able to manage any load with the offering, including applications running on Linux, the company said. The core of ...
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MapR Technologies and VMware have collaborated to make it easier for enterprises to virtualize big data applications and get better support at the same time. The companies have collaborated to certify for VMware's vSphere platform the ...
Against a backdrop of market tumult, enterprise software companies this week reported mixed quarterly results. Though Red Hat reported a robust quarter, Oracle revenue flatlined and Tibco's sales and profit declined year over year. ...
Tags: Wall Street, Red Hat, Oracle, Software Vendors