IDC: Data centres increasingly overwhelmed by business demand
Businesses are struggling to ensure their data centres cope with demand, according to analyst house IDC.
Stories by Leo King
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CISCO PARTNER SUMMIT 2012: Partners cite strong relationship but challenging learning curve
Cisco's partners globally have told Techworld they are positive about their relationship with the vendor compared to its competitors, but said there was a continued learning curve between them with some bumps along the way.
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Cisco CEO Chambers vows channel commitment
John Chambers, chief executive at networking giant Cisco, has insisted that the reseller and pure services channels dominate the company's business and will continue to do so.
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Social media will take hold in business this year – Accenture
Businesses will finally grasp, this year, how to use social media to their best advantage, for internal and external communications, according to the predictions of consultancy Accenture in its Technology Vision 2012 report.
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Netsuite's Zach Nelson: SAP was forced to make SuccessFactors cloud move
Netsuite chief executive Zach Nelson has claimed that rival SAP was effectively forced to make a multibillion dollar entry into cloud computing last week, because industry trends were changing - and customers were tiring of the multi-year on premise deployments the German vendor has traditionally sold.
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AMD inside trader sentenced to 11 years in jail
Raj Rajaratnam - the Galleon hedge fund founder <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3279411/galleon-founder-rajaratnam-convicted-of-huge-tech-stock-insider-trading/?intcmp=in_article;related">convicted</a> of insider trading on millions of dollars worth of AMD, IBM and other stocks - has been handed an 11-year jail sentence.
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IDC: Mobile device chaos creating heightened security demand
The proliferation of mobile devices is competitively important for businesses but is creating "chaos" for security professionals, IDC has warned.
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Four in 10 servers are virtual, snapshot study shows
Nearly four in every 10 servers are not physical, according to a virtualisation study that has examined large businesses in the UK, US, France and Germany.
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IDC: Technology consumerisation is overhauling the IT role
The consumerisation of technology in the workplace, whereby users bring in their own devices and even sign up to their own choice of cloud systems, is drastically changing the role of the IT department.
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IT security regulations ‘totally out of date’
The legal framework in which businesses operate their IT and data security is "totally outdated" and dates "from the 20th Century, while attempting to tackle problems in the 21st", according to a panel of experts.
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Veeam adds backup support for Microsoft Hyper-V
Virtual infrastructure management firm <a href="http://www.veeam.com/">Veeam Software</a> has added Backup & Replication support for Microsoft Hyper-V, in an important move in the virtualisation market.
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NHS agreement with CSC ‘weeks away’
An agreement between the NHS and CSC is due to be signed in the "next few weeks", according to the supplier.
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Seven in 10 businesses worried about managing cloud
Seventy one percent of businesses are concerned about managing cloud computing, according to a survey.
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Smart meter cloud announced by IBM and Cable & Wireless
IBM and Cable & Wireless are set to collaborate to offer a 'smart energy cloud' to support the UK's new energy meter rollout.
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London Stock Exchange: What really went wrong
The London Stock Exchange has made a U-turn on the system requirements placed on data vendors such as Thomson Reuters, Interactive Data and Bloomberg, after three weeks of problems since the launch of its new trading platform.
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