According to industry commentator James Taylor, “Analytics simplify data to amplify its value”. The problem is that data today for …
Mobile independence
Consumerisation of IT has created a desire in every employee to access corporate information using a array of personal mobile …
Data – the big picture
In the modern world, data overwhelms us. The power of numbers seems, more than anything, else the power to confuse …
Samsung hits back at Apple lawsuits
Samsung Electronics has hit back at Apple with lawsuits in three countries alleging infringement of patents on smartphone technologies. Last …
Verizon reports exponential increase in data breaches
Criminals carried out more but smaller data thefts last year than in previous years, indicating a shift toward simpler exploits …
Apple sues Samsung for patent infringement
Apple has sued Samsung for allegedly copying the iPad, iPod and iPhone with its Galaxy Tab and Galaxy handsets. “Samsung …
Data analytics powers Etisalat Misr
New entrant to the Egyptian mobile market, Etisalat Misr has carved out an enviable slice of the local market through …
Facebook shares data centre secrets
Facebook is sharing some of the secrets that help make its data centre one of the world’s most efficient. The …
BridgeHead wins London Clinic contract
BridgeHead Software has won a contract to provide data back up and protection solutions to support The London Clinic, the …
End-users discuss IT management and decentralisation
“Organisations need to establish benchmarking techniques that track and facilitate maintenance processes across assets, inventory and other resources and the …
SunGard solution for managing talent
SunGard Higher Education announced yesterday, the availability of its new Talent Management Suite, a fully integrated solution for managing learning, …
Haves vs. have-nots
A handful of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software companies have exited the great recession, regained their footing and posted respectable …
Oracle customers using Itanium chips rethink IT upgrades
Oracle customers this week expressed concern about the effort and cost of upgrading IT infrastructures after the software maker said …
Citigroup spinoff bundles recommendations to credit card users
A New York startup company spun off from Citigroup is about to launch a service that can offer consumers recommendations for …
SAP takes on IBM, Oracle with new GRC suite
SAP is hoping to cement its foothold in the growing market for GRC (governance, risk and compliance) software with a …
AMD hires former HP executive as CIO
AMD yesterday continued shuffling its senior executive ranks, appointing former Hewlett-Packard executive Mike Wolfe as its chief information officer. Wolfe …
Smart meter cloud announced
IBM and Cable & Wireless are set to collaborate to offer a ‘smart energy cloud’ to support the UK’s new …
Qtel’s fibre network extends 510 km across Qatar
Qtel’s fibre deployment project is making rapid progress, with more than 200 kilometres laid in the past month. The speed …
Juniper merges network core elements to cut carrier costs
uniper Networks is developing a massive switch that could replace traditional IP (Internet Protocol) routers in the core of service-provider …
Dell: ARM servers could face software issues
Dell is experimenting with chips based on ARM processors in its servers, but the architecture faces software issues that could …