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HP revenues down 3pc to US$30.7bn – 27,000 workers to exit company News
24.05.2012 HP reported second-quarter revenues of US$30.7bn, down 3pc year on year but an improvement on the first quarter when revenues dropped 38pc. Net profits were down 31pc to US$1.6bn. -
PM Group invests in end-to-end data centre infrastructure News
23.05.2012 Global project management company PM Group has invested in an end-to-end data centre infrastructure delivered by Dell. -
Gift voucher giant Smartbox to create 70 new digital economy jobs News
23.05.2012 One of Europe’s leading players in the production of gift vouchers and rewards, Smartbox, is to create 70 new jobs by establishing an international strategy, B2B, project... -
IBM to create several hundred new jobs at Dublin Global Services Hub News
18.05.2012 IBM is to create several hundred new jobs at a new Global Services Integration Hub in Mulhuddart as part of an IDA Ireland-supported investment.Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Research, R&D, Investments, Green Computing, Global CIO, Funding, Energy, Education, Economy, Digital Business, Data Management, Data Centre, CIO -
20 years of the internet in Ireland (timeline) News
15.05.2012 Twenty years ago today Barry Flanagan began Ireland On-Line in his house in Galway, kick starting the internet as a consumer phenomenon in Ireland. We look back at some of the... -
BT all-Ireland revenues up 1pc to stg£757m News
11.05.2012 Telecoms and ICT provider BT this morning reported a 1pc increase in revenues for the year of stg£757m. It said its transformation process, ongoing inrastructure rollout north...Tags: O2, Northern Ireland, Investment, BT Business, BT, Telecoms, ICT, Vodafone, 3 Ireland, Fibre Infrastructure Investment, LLU -
EMC acquires Israeli start-up XtremIO, reportedly for US$430m News
11.05.2012 Data storage giant EMC has announced it has acquired the privately held flash storage start-up XtremIO. While it has not disclosed the financial terms of the deal, reports are...Categories: Deals Done, Data Management, Data Centre, Investments, IT Organisation, Mergers & Acquisitions -
Microsoft vows to be carbon neutral by 1 July News
09.05.2012 Microsoft is pledging to become carbon neutral from 1 July across all of its direct operations, including its data centres, software development labs, air travel, and office... -
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... -
Greenpeace activists target Apple stores in US and Canada News
25.04.2012 Apple may have reported incredible second-quarter revenues of US$39.2bn yesterday, but that didn’t deter Greenpeace activists, as they staged protests at Apple stores in San...Categories: Green Computing, Green, Sustainability, Servers, Renewable Energy, Multimedia, Green Tech, Data Centre, Computers -
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 -
Carlow company to power up London Olympics News
23.04.2012 Whitelite Automation, an engineering firm based in Carlow, has secured a multimillion euro contract to keep the London Olympics powered up via its UPS modules.Categories: Green Tech, Green, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Data Centre, Renewable Energy, Sustainability -
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 -
1,500 new construction jobs as IDA-backed investments ramp up News
23.04.2012 Some 1,500 construction jobs will be created in Ireland over the next two years as building projects involving Eli Lilly, Boston Scientific, Allergan, Microsoft, Analog Devices,... -
The five minute CIO: John Shorten News
20.04.2012 Welcome to the latest in a series of exclusive interviews on Siliconrepublic.com, where Ireland’s IT leaders share their thoughts on technology trends and strategy. This week,... -
Greenpeace activists protest on Apple’s Cork HQ’s roof News
18.04.2012 Four Greenpeace activists protested on the roof Apple’s European base in Cork this morning, saying the company's new cloud service iCloud is powered by fossil fuels. -
Irish start-up creates cloud-based software for call centres News
05.04.2012 Sentient, a start-up based at the Guinness Enterprise Centre, has come up with a new cloud solution called Scorebuddy that’s targeting the call centre space so that team leaders... -
BT makes multi-million euro investment in Dublin cloud data centre News
28.03.2012 Global telecoms giant BT is expanding its Dublin data centre as part of a multi-million euro investment that will see the addition of 5,500 sq feet of data centre, including 300... -
Intel vice-president rides next wave of innovation News
10.11.2011 Rory McInerney is the Intel vice-president responsible for creating chips that power the world’s data centres, e-commerce sites and social networks.Categories: Web, Social Media, Servers, Research, R&D, Mobility, Leadership & Management, Internet, eCommerce, Development, Data Centre, Computers