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NI construction firm invests stg£100,000 in private cloud News
23.05.2012 Northern Ireland McAvoy Group has signed a new contract with Lisburn-based IT company Xperience, worth more than stg£100,000 as part of a four-year strategy to grow its share of... -
SAP acquires cloud procurement player Ariba for US$4.3bn News
23.05.2012 German software giant SAP has agreed to buy business-to-business (B2B) procurement firm Ariba for US$4.3bn or US$45 per share.Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, eCommerce, Business Software, Apps -
Dublin’s Westbury Hotel jumps into the cloud News
23.05.2012 The Westbury Hotel in Dublin has moved all of its computing services to the cloud as part of a deployment using Citrix technology in conjunction with PFH Computers and Cable &...Categories: Servers, Security, IT Management, Investments, Digital Business, Data Management, CIO, Business Software -
Government rolls out cloud computing standards for Irish firms News
21.05.2012 New standards for helping large and small firms move to the cloud have been published today by the Irish Government. -
Apple planning social overhaul of iCloud to compete with Instagram? News
15.05.2012 Tech giant Apple is planning a major overhaul of its iCloud cloud computing service that will include new photo-sharing services that could see it rival Facebook and Instagram.Categories: Wireless Communications, Web 2.0, Storage, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Hosting Services, Games/Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Apps Zone, Apps -
IT professionals on long road to cloud deployment - survey News
10.05.2012 Without the proper cloud migration strategy, 39pc of IT decision makers would rather have a root canal, dig a ditch, or do their own taxes than address network challenges... -
Google+ notifications arriving in Gmail will spice up cloud wars News
09.05.2012 Internet giant Google has revealed it is adding Google+ comments and notifications directly into its popular Gmail email service. Starting today, users can also reply to Google+...Tags: Google, Microsoft, Gmail, Google+, Google Drive, Hotmail, Windows 8, Android, Windows Phone, Cloud Computing -
Microsoft kills ‘Windows Live’, reveals new ‘Microsoft account’ ID system News
03.05.2012 Microsoft is dropping the ‘Windows Live’ services brand and instead – to coincide with Windows Phone and the arrival of Windows 8 and the hope of a thriving apps market - will...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Operating Systems, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Apps -
Kerry Group puts sourcing tool in the cloud with SAP News
01.05.2012 The Irish food conglomerate Kerry Group has implemented the cloud-based e-procurement software SAP Sourcing OnDemand across its global operations spanning 23 countries. -
28pc of businesses in Ireland move to desktop virtualisation News
01.05.2012 Consumerisation of IT in the Irish workplace is being made possible through the move to desktop virtualisation. According to a new Citrix survey, 28pc of Irish businesses are... -
LG Cloud to let users manage content on PCs, mobiles, smart TVs News
30.04.2012 LG Electronics is launching its own cloud service, offering the beta opening on 1 May. LG Cloud will let users manage and consume content on Android smartphones, PCs and smart TVs. -
Microsoft donates €1.2m of cloud software to non-profits News
26.04.2012 Microsoft has donated €1.2m worth of cloud software to non-profit organisations in Ireland, the company said today.Tags: Microsoft, Cloud Computing, -
Google Drive has just upped the stakes in the cloud game, starts price war News
25.04.2012 It’s the speed and elegance of Google Drive that has hooked me in, but there’s also something about the astute way Google has realised people want to do more than just store... -
The Google Drive is now live News
24.04.2012 Google has gone live with its new Google Drive online cloud storage service – a central hub for storing documents, photos, videos, and more.Categories: Storage, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Internet, Digital Media, Data Centre, Apps -
Cloud-based business models challenge tech firms - study News
24.04.2012 High-tech companies are grappling with the need to transform traditional business models to more complex ones in order to provide new services based on cloud computing, a new... -
Adobe brings landmark software titles to Creative Cloud News
23.04.2012 Software giant Adobe has launched its new subscription-based Creative Cloud centred around the new family Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6) software. -
Microsoft/Amarach cloud index claims small firms growing via cloud News
23.04.2012 Smaller companies in the Irish economy are attributing job creation directly to the adoption of cloud computing and 35pc of firms have implemented cloud, according to the...Categories: Software & Web Development, Servers, IT Organisation, IT Management, Hardware, Economy, Digital Business, Data Centre, CIO -
Apple offering free Snow Leopard OS for MobileMe users News
19.04.2012 Apple is giving free Mac OS X Snow Leopard DVDs to MobileMe customers in order to encourage them to upgrade and join iCloud. -
The legalities of cloud (infographic) News
17.04.2012 While cloud computing, which enables the use of files and applications over the internet, offers many benefits to companies, one of the biggest concerns surrounding the...Categories: Virtualisation, Legal, IT Management, Internet, Intellectual Property, Data Management, CIO -
Google Drive set to launch next week? News
17.04.2012 Google Drive, Google’s rumoured cloud storage service, could see a release next week. It may provide users with 5GB of cloud storage for PC, Mac, iOS and Android users.