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Unified comms player ShoreTel buys M5 Networks News
06.02.2012 IP telephony player ShoreTel has acquired M5 Networks, a pioneer in hosted unified comms, in a cash and shares deal valued at US$146.3m. -
Blacknight hit with external security breach News
02.02.2012 Hosting provider and domain registrar Blacknight has revealed it had been hit by a security breach. While no data was compromised, the breach may include client contact details,... -
Coffee, vino and a little bit of virtualisation, please! News
27.01.2012 Coffee and tea distributor Robert Roberts and its wine and spirits subsidiary Findlaters has invested in a new disaster recovery and virtualisation system.Categories: Virtualisation, Software & Web Development, Servers, IT Management, Hosting Services, Data Management, CIO -
Sage puts payroll into the internet cloud News
18.01.2012 Accountancy software player Sage has launched what it claims is the first payroll system to sit in the cloud. The web-based Sage One Payroll system was developed by Sage’s...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, R&D, Online Business, Internet, Hosting Services, Digital Business, Apps -
Apple plans to disrupt media … again! This time it should be social News
03.01.2012 The tech world is buzzing with speculation about what Apple is planning to announce at a special media event in New York later this month. One thing everyone agrees on, it does... -
The first casualty of the SOPA war is the internet itself News
23.12.2011 The internet industry as we know it – from the US perspective – is in the middle of a damaging civil war thanks to the deep divisions caused by the Stop Online Piracy Act.Categories: Servers, Security, Multimedia, Media, Internet, Hosting Services, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media -
New cloud consortium projects €5m revenues in first year News
14.12.2011 A new cloud computing consortium of Irish and international IT companies – the SLA-1 consortium – is projecting €5m in revenues in its first year in operation. -
Microsoft releases Sky Drive app for iPhone and Windows Phone News
14.12.2011 Microsoft’s cloud storage offering for consumers – SkyDrive – is being made available today for users of Windows Phone and iPhone devices.Categories: Wireless Communications, Storage, Servers, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hosting Services, Hardware, Document Management, Digital Media, Data Management, Apps Zone, Apps -
C&W launches Storm cloud comms platform News
07.12.2011 Cable & Wireless Worldwide has launched its Storm hosted communications platform, which allows businesses to use multichannels on a single platform. -
75pc of European firms will never recover lost data News
23.11.2011 Three-quarters of businesses in Europe will never recover data lost when computers crash. A pan-European survey found that 54pc had either lost data or suffered downtime or both... -
Insurance player in managed services deal with Trilogy News
04.11.2011 Trilogy Technologies has deployed managed services to manage the entire infrastructure and co-managed IT services desk for the Campion Insurance Group, which has 100 staff and... -
IEDR reports 13pc jump in .ie registrations – 170k .ie domains exist News
26.10.2011 There are now 170,000 .ie domain names in existence, the .ie Domain Registry (IEDR) confirmed today. The registry said 10,029 .ie domains were registered in the third quarter,... -
Hacker group Anonymous targets darknet child porn sites News
24.10.2011 Hacker group Anonymous has taken down child porn websites located in hidden regions of the internet – the darknet – as well as releasing information on 1,500 alleged users of...Categories: Hosting Services, Communications, Internet, Security, Servers, Software & Web Development, Web -
Irish online payment player processes €10m in transactions News
10.10.2011 Irish online payments firm Easy Payments Plus has reached the €10m milestone for transactions, the company said. It has also successfully expanded into the UK market with three...Categories: Training, Online Business, Internet, Hosting Services, Financial Services, eCommerce, Digital Business -
Amazon S3 statistics – more than 566bn objects News
05.10.2011 Amazon has revealed key statistics about its S3 cloud platform – it holds more than 566bn objects and processes more than 370,000 requests per second at peak times.Categories: Storage, Software & Web Development, Mobility, Internet, Hosting Services, Hardware, Global CIO, Data Management, Data Centre, CIO -
Cloud, green tech, shared services: key greening strategies for UK govt? News
27.09.2011 The UK government’s draft Greening Government ICT Strategy will provide the UK ICT industry with significant opportunities in the areas of green technologies, cloud computing...Categories: Web, Virtualisation, Unified Communications, Telecommunications, Sustainability, Supply Chain Management, Renewable Energy, Recycling Services, Online Business, Networking, Mobility, Mobile, Jobs, In the Workplace, Hosting Services, Hardware, Green Computing, Green, Global CIO, ERP & Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Digital 21, Data Management, Data Centre, Consumer Tech, Computers, Communications, Green Tech, CIOTags: ICT, Security, Outsourcing, Data centres, Green Jobs, Green Economy, Green Tech, Cloud Computing, Cloud -
I.T. Alliance invests stg£500k in UK expansion News
22.09.2011 Irish technology outsourcing provider I.T. Alliance has revealed it is to invest stg£500,000 in an expansion in the UK market that will also see the firm beef up its UK...Categories: Virtualisation, Outsourcing, Management, IT Management, IT Consulting, Investments, Hosting Services, Data Management -
Jobs website hacked, two arrested News
09.09.2011 Two people alleged to have hacked jobs website MyJob.ie have been arrested and a file has been sent to the DPP. The owners of the website have written to users, urging them to... -
.XXX domain registration begins today News
07.09.2011 Described by some as the ‘internet’s red light district’, it will be interesting to see if the launch of registrations for the .XXX domain today will indeed help to separate the... -
Dediserve builds €1m cloud business in less than two years News
07.09.2011 The use of the OnApp management layer is credited with enabling Dublin cloud-hosting provider Dediserve to build a €1m UK and Ireland cloud-hosting business within a two-year...