Big Data is improving decision making, according to a newly released global survey by EMC. Findings of the report based on a survey of IT decision makers from 50 countries indicate that big data is also impacting companies’ ...
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Eighty per cent of employees are potentially putting their companies at risk through use of unauthorised Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications on corporate networks. The extent of so-called "shadow IT" is revealed in a study for ...
The vast majority (82 per cent) of NHS Trust heads are expecting additional funding from the government in order to become paperless, and over half (60 per cent) expect Whitehall to foot the entire bill. The Secretary of State for Health, ...
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Reichle & De-Massari is participating in and sponsoring the DatacenterDynamics Conference and Expo taking place in Riyadh in December. R&M will use the event as a platform to highlight its ‘R&MinteliPhy’ Automated ...
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BlackBerry's dramatic fall in the enterprise has left CIOs scrambling to pick a new mobile platform provider. Will it be Apple? Samsung? Or Microsoft? Or it will be all of the above. "The entire landscape has shifted in a very short ...
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Business critical applications should be analysed before being moved to the cloud, according to cloud provider Intechnology's product director, Stefan Haase. Speaking at Computing's Data Centre Summit held today in London, Haase ...
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Mobilising apps for employees to use on their iPhones and Android devices sure sounds like a fun idea. Employees would actually be thankful for having such a cool IT department, a forward-thinking team on the cutting-edge of consumer tech ...
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A recent study conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Brocade has revealed that, although data centre virtualisation and cloud computing are being widely embraced, IT managers across the world are struggling to make their networks meet ...
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The inability of businesses to properly store and analyse big data leaves them vulnerable to security breaches. That is according to research by security provider McAfee, which finds just 35 per cent of organisations can quickly detect ...
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The IT department of 2020 could disappear as a separate entity and become embedded in departments throughout the entire organisation, according to analyst Forrester. Speaking at its CIO Forum event in London, analysts discussed some of ...
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Windows 8 faces a number of hurdles in the enterprise, but the biggest reason it won't replace the current corporate champion, Windows 7, is simple. "Enterprises just don't see Windows 8 having value," said David Johnson, an analyst with ...
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A new survey suggests that large data centers might be less energy efficient than was previously thought. The survey, by data center hosting vendor Digital Realty Trust, quizzed 300 IT decision makers at large corporations in North ...
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The easy upgrades to Windows XP have already been done, migration experts said, predicting that a large number of enterprises will still be running the aged OS a year from now. Microsoft plans to retire Windows XP from all support, ...
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According to information technology researcher Gartner in a world wide survey looking at business investment Big Data is set to grow exponentially in 2013. A survey of leading IT decision makers indicates 2013 will be the year of Big Data ...
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Despite strong support from IT pros, SharePoint faces increased skepticism from business leaders and it's unclear whether the collaboration product will deliver cloud, social and mobile advancements needed for future growth. Those are ...
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