BYOD is a misnomer, while current MDM solutions are "stop-gap technologies" preceding full understanding of mobile data management. This is according to Joe Baguley, chief technologist for EMEA at virtualisation firm VMware, speaking to ...
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Cambridgeshire County Council workers won't get a penny extra for joining the council's new BYOD scheme because the authority is worried about being "pilloried in the local press" if they did. Staff signing up to the scheme, which began ...
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Under the helm of its new CEO, Steve Bennett, Symantec last week outlined a re-organisation intended to lead to a leaner company and a new range of security and back-up services and products. These products would be built primarily on ...
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Those who want to try the much-hyped Hadoop but haven't got a cluster or two to spare can now test the data processing platform on their desktops, thanks to a new release from Hadoop distributor Hortonworks. Hortonworks Sandbox is a ...
Moneycorp, the UK foreign currency and payments company, is now supporting its services in a virtualized data center. Founded in 1979, Moneycorp is a APS11bn provider of wholesale and commercial foreign exchange operations, with a growing ...
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Longtime VMware Chief Technology Officer Steve Herrod has stepped down from his post, leaving the company during a challenging time. Herrod has taken a job at the venture capital firm General Catalyst, where he will work as a managing ...
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To simplify the roll-out of clusters for big data applications, Skytap is now offering pre-configured Cloudera Hadoop templates that can run in the company's public cloud. There is a growing interest in big data using Hadoop, but to even ...
Developers are finding that building applications in the cloud saves time, but concerns remain about security and uptime, according to a newly released study. Results of the biannual Evans Data Cloud Development Survey, conducted in ...
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Sharon Kincl to champion the cloud service provider's financial and investor relations PeakColo, a leading enterprise-class IaaS Cloud service provider to service providers, announced the addition of Ms. Sharon Kincl as Vice President of ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft will issue an emergency update to patch a vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) in the next two weeks to fix a flaw criminals have been using for more than a month, researchers said Tuesday. The company will ...
Computerworld - Microsoft today patched 12 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and several server and development products, but as it hinted last week, did not come up with a fix for the Internet Explorer (IE) bug that cyber criminals have ...
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The majority of UK organisations now employ server virtualisation, but new research reveals that there may be a significant shortfall in their software licensing compliance, according to software asset management firm License Dashboard. ...
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Technology solution provider unveils fourth annual tech trends to watch study, reveals key topics on the minds of technology professionals. When CIOs and CTOs turn to social networks, what are they tech-talking about? Logicalis, an ...
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Data eraser for the enterprise gets a makeover Kroll Ontrack, a provider of data recovery, information management and e-disclosure, announced the launch of Ontrack Eraser 4.0, an enterprise data eraser offering. The firm said it has ...
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Storage is a key component of IT strategy. After all, data is the lifeblood of any business. But storage is there to provide data for processing by business critical applications, and the way that data is processed is undergoing huge ...
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