Computerworld - Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at chip maker AMD, recently deployed a 6TB all-NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment. The result, he said, was astounding. In AMD's virtualization ...
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British American Tobacco has deployed automatic data extraction tools on its SAP environment to free up auditor time. David Barkhausen, senior IT auditor at British American Tobacco (BAT), spoke on the extraction of SAP data for audit ...
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A majority high-level IT managers and data storage professionals have no plans to deploy big data analytics, according to a new data storage survey by market research firm TheInfoPro. Fifty-six percent of respondents indicated they will ...
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BBC managers are gaining tighter cost control with SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence dashboards. Simon Griffiths, data and reporting improvement manager at the BBC, presented the corporation’s home services management ...
Energy company Centrica has carried out its first corporate agile IT project,building an employee self-service HR portal in an SAP environment for 30,000 users. Mark Tristram,agile development manager,Centrica said the SAP competency ...
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With 25,000 employees and 751 branches across the US, Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores had its work cut out when it decided to virtualise SAP and migrate from an IBM mainframe onto x86 servers using VMware technologies. During VMworld ...
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