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UK SMEs Are Leading The Way in Ensuring Staff Work Securely in The Byod Era
Jun 6, 2013More than a third of SMEs have implemented policies and IT systems to manage employees’ devices for work purposes, a Citrix-commissioned YouGov survey has discovered. The survey of senior executives and managers - in more than 1,250 ...
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Microsoft Has Wasted Thousands of Pounds Worth of Electricity at Its Redmond Quincy
Dec 24, 2012Microsoft has wasted thousands of pounds worth of electricity at its Redmond Quincy datacentre to avoid a $210,000 (129,000) penalty for underuse from its energy provider, according to the New York Times. According to the report, ...
Tags: Microsoft, Redmond Quincy, Internet, network
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Issue Is Found How Best to Deal with The Risk Assets Pose to The Business
Dec 18, 2012By Clive Longbottom and Rob Bamforth When attempting to maximise the overall value of IT assets through the application of a suitable IT lifecycle management (ITLM) process, the one issue that is found time and time again is how best to ...
Tags: IT assets, IT lifecycle management, risk profile, ITLM strategy
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What Is Remarkable Is When a Company Decides to Do This Nine Times in as Many Months
Nov 19, 2012A taste of Cisco's acquisitions The threat from software-defined networking(SDN)Cisco diversifies portfolio Acquisitions more cost-effective than R&D Extending customer base and innovation There is nothing unusual about an industry ...
Tags: Cisco, software-defined networking(SDN), Lightwire, Clive Longbottom
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The Growing Use of Virtualisation Has Really Helped Many Organisations
Oct 29, 2012The 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 – ...
Tags: servers, storage, applications, software, virtual machines, virtual images
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CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Does Not Help Datacentres Become More Efficient
Oct 26, 2012The UK government's Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme does not help datacentres become more efficient, according to Adriaan Oosthoek (pictured), vice-president of not-for-profit industry association Data Centre ...
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Goldman Sachs Is Launching a New Datacentre Strategy to Achieve Higher Cost Savings
Sep 21, 2012Goldman Sachs is launching a new datacentre strategy to achieve higher cost savings and improved IT energy efficiency.The investment bank will replace its existing real estate-based datacentre infrastructure with modular datacentre ...
Tags: Goldman Sachs, modular datacentres, save costs, IO, data
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Lack of Cloud Standards and Interoperability Made It Difficult to Move Workloads
Aug 1, 2012The lack of established cloud standards and interoperability has made it difficult to move workloads between private clouds and public clouds and some experts say these problems hinder cloud adoption. Without any industry-wide cloud ...
Tags: cloud standards, private clouds, public clouds, cloud services