The Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide will map the IT buying cycle of our readership onto relevant editorial that will inform and educate readers and help them towards making the right buying decision. On a three week cycle the publication ...
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Enterprise users of public cloud welcomed Amazon Web Services' new products and price reductions,but said that additional features such as better security,ease of use and added multiple-availability to overcome outages issues could make ...
Tags: Gov-cloud, Amazon Web Services, security, cloud services
IT consortium Charityshare has deployed a Violin Memory 3000 Series all-flash array to support the roll-out of up to 2,000 virtual desktops for its Age UK operations. Violin was chosen on grounds of cost and the company's backing from HP ...
Tags: Charityshare, Violin Memory, TMS, Gartner
Kent Police has revamped its backup systems with Acronis Back-up & Recovery software that has allowed it to cut backup windows from several days long to 16 hours. Data recovery times on the mixed physical and virtual server backup ...
Tags: Kent Police, Recovery software, Back-up software, data recovery
Microsoft has done a lot to boost Hyper-V but the improvements do not justify switching from VMware, according to Gartner. Speaking prior to the analyst's datacentre conference at Westminster, Gartner vice-president and distinguished ...
Tags: Microsoft, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2012, virtual machines, x86 servers
Chunghwa Telecom Co.,Ltd.'s president Y.S.Lee recently pledged the company will sign up 1,000 enterprise customers of cloud computing service in a year and double revenue from the service in 2013 to NT$1 billion(US$34 million at ...
Tags: cloud-computing, investment, Chunghwa Telecom, private cloud service
UK security services have begun bridging the gap that has stopped open source software getting security clearance for use in government systems. The initiative has come too late to stop the first big contract wins delivered under the ...
Tom Baker, head of ICT at Sunderland City Council, has an office in the council's datacentre. It is not a bad place to have an office because the datacentre has been somewhat rejuvenated, thanks in part to modern IT that takes up far less ...
Tags: Interview, ICT, datacentre, commercial IT, cloud computing infrastructure
Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
Tags: UK IT, UKtech50, ARM, GCHQ, Government Digital Service, Salesforce.com
IDG News Service - In a move aimed at strengthening its ability to offer converged systems, Dell has acquired infrastructure automation software provider Gale Technologies. Dell will fold the company's technologies into a newly formed ...
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Hackers of the world,unite!You have nothing to lose but the lousy stock firmware your routers shipped with. Apart from smartphones,routers and wireless base stations are undoubtedly the most widely hacked and user-modded consumer ...
Tags: DD-WRT, Vyatta, security, Hackers, routers, Tomato, OpenWRT, M0n0wall, PfSense
NetApp has claimed sales of its FlexPod integrated storage,server and networking stacks grew nearly 1,000%in a year. In a presentation at the NetApp Insight partner event in Dublin,product solutions and alliances director John Rollason ...
Tags: FlexPod storage stack sales, 176 FlexPod units, storage hardware
EMC CEO Joe Tucci on Monday called for CEOs to put pressure on U.S. politicians to strike a budget deal, saying that the direction of the domestic and global economy depends on it. "I've never seen a time when the rest of the world was ...
Tags: EMC, budget deal, Cisco, data communication
TotalRecovery Pro is all you need to completely protect your files and Windows system from virus infections, hard disk failures, and unexpected disasters. IRVINE, CA, November 10, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- FarStone Technology, Inc. ...
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VMware has confirmed that the source code for its enterprise-level virtualisation platform – ESX hypervisor – has been leaked online and is urging users to apply security patches. This is the second time the ESX source code ...
Tags: VMware, virtualisation platform, security patches, leaked online