The European Commission has announced a new strategy to speed up and increase the use of cloud computing, with the aim of creating 2.5 million new jobs and boosting GDP by €160 billion (£127bn) by 2020. The EC states that ...
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The CEO of Linux-based software solutions company LinuxIT, Peter Dawes-Huish, slammed the public sector G-Cloud system this week, likening the current service level to a military mission "with an entry route and no exit route" that is "not ...
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The CEO of Linux-based software solutions company LinuxIT,Peter Dawes-Huish,slammed the public sector G-Cloud system this week,likening the current service level to a military mission"with an entry route and no exit route"that is"not just ...
Tags: G Cloud, suicidal mission with no exit, LinuxIT CEO, Peter DawesHuish
Finnish paper company UPM Raflatac has announced the opening of a new labelstock slitting and distribution terminal in Kiev, Ukraine, which will supply both film and paper label materials to Ukrainian customers. UPM Raflatac area sales ...
US based property and casualty underwriter Tower Group has announced sale of its health insurance business for $102m to Australian private health insurer NIB Holdings. Subject to clearance from the Overseas Investment Office, the sale is ...
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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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Computerworld-Hewlett-Packard's Storage division Monday released upgrades to three product lines.A product marketing director called the upgrades the Storage division's biggest news since acquiring 3Par in 2010. HP said it's upgrading the ...
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Ailsa Beaton, CIO at the Metropolitan Police, the top IT job in the police service, is to leave her post in mid-2013 after 12 years in the role. Further reading Analysis: Police forces investigate new ICT strategies Met Police system ...
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Network World - Microsoft's Office 365 service has suffered two email outages within a week of each other that affected some customers in North and South America that stemmed from different causes but ended in the same result: failed email ...
"I don't think IT realizes how much the way we live life as individuals has completely permeated the enterprise,"says Margaret Dawson,vice president of product management at Symform."This is happening whether you want it to or not." ...
Tags: Shadow IT, Symform, survey, rogue cloud use
Telefónica Digital has bought TokBox as an attempt to move into the video conferencing space. TokBox was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco.TokBox has created a cloud-based API for video conferencing,which companies can ...
Tags: Telefónica, sell mobile data, customer's mobile phones, Stephen Shurrock
"Technology should be irrelevant," says Gavin Walker, CIO of the UK's air traffic control business, NATS. Walker is a firm believer in focusing on what IT can enable, rather than the technology for its own sake. As CIO, he heads a ...
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Computerworld-SANTA CLARA,CALIF.--Prior to instituting a change management program,the IT group at financial and tax preparation software company Intuit took eight weeks to complete a business developer's service ticket. As in many ...
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UK - TV lighting's Chris Rigby, Gurdip Mahal, Ross Williams and Nick Edwards have joined forces to create Aurora Lighting Associates Ltd, with the expanded company extending its broadcast lighting influence with a string of popular TV ...
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A purchase agreement has been concluded under the terms of which Enbasa Laval is joining the Bekaert Textiles group. Enbasa Laval is producing woven and knitted mattress ticking and has also (about 15%) specialized non-ticking activities. ...