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IBM third-party maintenance breathes new life into mainframes
- Managing Editor 20 Sep 2011 -
IT Departments as business service brokers
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September 13th Microsoft Patch Tuesday Application Compatibility Report by ChangeBASE
- Managing Editor 14 Sep 2011
The European Competitions (anti-trust) Commission has ruled that IBM must publish information on mainframe spares for third party maintainers.It's fair to say the mainframe is not going away. Some ...
The flexibility of the Cloud is changing the dynamics of outsourcing arrangements. Katy Ring of K2 Advisory looks at how CIOs should manage these new opportunities.
With this September Microsoft Patch Tuesday update, we see again a relatively small set of updates in comparison to the lists of updates released by Microsoft in the previous months. In total there ...
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Accenture Chief Technology Innovation Officer argues the case for disconnecting your IT architecture
- Managing Editor 08 Sep 2011 -
VMWare puts Windows in a browser
- Managing Editor 30 Aug 2011 -
Jobs goes: can Apple take the NeXTstep
- Managing Editor 25 Aug 2011 -
IT Works: Information technology offers the greatest opportunity for employment and entrepreneurship
- Managing Editor 12 Aug 2011 -
Patch Tuesday Report 9th August
- Managing Editor 11 Aug 2011 -
Amazon downtime: how important is cloud?
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Guest blog post: Gavin Michael, CTIO Accenture on the "I" in IT
- Managing Editor 05 Aug 2011
A few weeks ago Accenture's Gavin Michael wrote on this blog about making information the key requirement of IT. In the blog post below he calls for a change in how IT thinks about itself. I have ...
At this year's VMWorld, VMWare is killing off desktop computing. Well, it is at least trying to convince the world, that thin client virtual desktop infrastructure is the way forward. There have ...
In the book "Insanely Great", which tells the story of how the Apple Mac was created, Steve Jobs comes across as a driven character, perfectionist, whose attention to detail almost gave the whole ...
Why not consider a career in IT? IT both empowers and is itself a stimulus for innovation. Cost of entry is low, so there are plenty of opportunities for entrepreneurship through innovative use of ...
With this August Microsoft Patch Tuesday update, we see a moderate set of updates in comparison to those lists of updates released by Microsoft for the months of June and July. In total there are ...
If you look at Amazon's 10Q report for three months ending March 30th 2011, income from Amazon's AWS cloud service accounted for only $311m out of the $9.857 billion the company made altogether. ...
Having the right data platform will become a strong business driver for the way in which innovation and growth are delivered, and companies that make the investment will pull away from those who ...
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Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Software testing firm in Glasgow offers work opportunities
- Managing Editor 20 Jul 2011 -
Oracle tight-lipped on eBusiness Suite support fee hike
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday - 12th July 2011
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UKOUG shuffle
- Managing Editor 08 Jul 2011 -
Join up the cloud for end-to-end services
- Managing Editor 01 Jul 2011
A few years ago I attended a presentation given by Thorkil Sonne, the founder of Specialisterne, who formed the Danish software company in order to make use of the special skills that people with ...
people using Oracle eBusiness Suite 11 have delayed upgrading to eBusiness Suite 12 waiting for Fusion - but now Oracle is going to charge extended support.on eBusiness Suite 11.
Executive Summary With this July Microsoft Patch Tuesday update, we see a moderate set of updates in comparison to those lists of updates released by Microsoft for the months of April, May and ...
This week the UK Oracle user group is reorganising. Chairman, Debra Lilley takes on a new role as president of the council and leader of the user group. In a statement UKOUG said: "For members, the ...
Martin Sadler, director of cloud and security, HP Labs, David Chalmers, HP CTO for servers, storage & networking, Gurprit Singh, CTO , HP Technology Services Consulting and Sukhi Gill, fellow ...