Dublin Airport Authority will virtualise and automate its CCTV data storage by 2013 for easy retrieval and simplified data management. Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) owns and operates Ireland’s three largest airports in Dublin, Cork ...
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Cloud acquisitions paying off for Ellison Software and cloud revenue gave Oracle's financial figures a boost, but hardware sales continued to decline. For the second quarter of fiscal 2013 Oracle recorded revenue of $9.1bn, an increase ...
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HP is continuing to suffer as a result of Oracle dropping Itanium support while Dell's enterprise strategy gains momentum, according to the latest market data from Gartner. The company posted worldwide server supplier revenue of $3.7bn, ...
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HP CEO Meg Whitman has reiterated the company’s commitment to its hardware business in a bid to reassure shareholders over the company’s future. During her keynote speech at HP’s annual Discover conference in Las Vegas ...
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And now, the end is near. On 23 November 2012, Gerry Pennell will leave the job of a lifetime. Four years after signing up as CIO for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, his IT team has won every technology gold medal going after ...
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Cambridge University is turning to technology developed for computer gaming to help it solve some of the fundamental problems of science. Cambridge University is using chips normally found in computer game consoles to drive cutting-edge ...
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ARM and Imagination Technologies have united to acquire semiconductor designer MIPS Technologies, with ARM paying the lion's share of the purchase price to snap up MIPS' patent portfolio, while Imagination will acquire MIPS' operational ...
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MIRAGE - a new project supported by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) of the European Commission (EC) - was launched recently with the goal of developing next-generation optical ...
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More than half of the peak-time traffic to the London 2012 Olympic Games' web servers came from mobile devices – a huge demonstration of the consumer switch to mobile at the highest–profile sporting event of the year. Users ...
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Monday, 9 July, was supposed to be 'Internet Doomsday' when the US' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was to shut down servers associated with the DNSChanger malware. As a result, computers infected with this threat were to be cut off ...
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West Midlands based technical solutions provider Central Presentations Ltd. (CPL) delivered full technical production - including lighting, sound, cameras / PPU, AV and staging - to the high profile 2012 Gastech Conference & Exhibition at ...
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The government has put a £1bn tender for IT services on ice because of hardware problems with the tender process. The four-year Applications Development, Delivery and Support Services (ADDSS) framework was issued in June and open to ...
IDG News Service - Chip maker Calxeda has received an investment to the tune of US$55 million to develop low-power server chips with ARM processors, the company is expected to announce on Tuesday. Calxeda makes a chip called EnergyCore ...
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Police have arrested a 41-year-old man in connection with a cyber attack on websites connected to home secretary Theresa May. He was arrested in Stoke-on-Trent for questioning under the Serious Crime Act on suspicion of assisting or ...
Tags: DDoS, Theresa May, website, Home Office website
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two new EC2 instances for applications and analytics workloads, as well as AWS Data Pipeline, a web service that allows enterprises to move data across various systems Launching the new Elastic ...
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