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Virtualisation can help organisations boost productivity News
22.01.2013 Virtualisation projects, usually done for tactical cost-cutting reasons, can also be strategic tools for the business, an IT services and consulting firm has said. -
Computing giant Dell is planning to delist and go private News
15.01.2013 Dell is reportedly planning to go private and is in buyout discussions with two private equity firms TPG and Silver Lake. The PC and server maker lost almost a third of its...Categories: Software & Web Development, Servers, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Internet, Hardware, Funding, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Legal pressures contributed to death of internet activist Aaron Swartz News
14.01.2013 The legal and financial pressures of a potential public trial are understood to have contributed to internet activist Aaron Swartz’s death at the weekend. The internet freedom... -
Anonymous defaces MIT homepage after death of Aaron Swartz News
14.01.2013 Hacker group Anonymous defaced the homepage of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) just hours after the prestigious technology school promised a full investigation into...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, Security, Legal, Internet, Communications -
Dell SecureWorks reveals new cloud security service News
07.01.2013 Dell SecureWorks has revealed a new vulnerability management service and a new web application scanning service for the cloud and virtualised computing environments. -
2013 will be the year conventional approaches to IT security will be abandoned News
04.01.2013 It is the dawn of a new year and with the certainty with which you could set your watch, IT security firms are making somber threat predictions. The only thing they can agree on...Categories: Social Media, Servers, Security, Mobility, Mobile, IT Management, Intellectual Property, Data Management, CIO -
Dell in €100k virtualisation deal with pan-European pet food supplier C&D News
02.01.2013 Dell has signed a contract worth more than €100,000 to implement a virtualised hardware platform for Irish-based pet food supplier C&D Foods to help underpin the firms’s... -
IT security pros say firms most vulnerable to attack during Xmas holidays News
21.12.2012 Businesses are more vulnerable to attack than ever during the Christmas holidays, a survey of IT security and business professionals believe.Categories: CIO, Data Management, Digital Business, Global CIO, IT Management, Leadership & Management, Risk Management, Security, Servers -
IT professionals fear loss of control when it comes to cloud computing News
21.12.2012 IT professionals are still being deterred by the perceived risks of cloud computing with loss of control one of their biggest worries, a global study of 4,500 IT professionals... -
Data Commissioner tells 80 Irish websites to explain approach to EU cookies law News
19.12.2012 Some 80 websites in Ireland – including major Government departments, like the Department of Health and the Department of Finance – have been written to by the Data Protection...Categories: Servers, Security, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, eCommerce, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Data Management, Consumer Tech, Web -
Dell signs €100k private cloud IT deal with analytics firm Distinct News
14.12.2012 Dell’s Irish division has secured a €100,000 deal to deliver servers and storage to power Dublin-based analytics-as-a-service provider Distinct’s private cloud analytics and... -
Job security is a key barrier to uptake of cloud computing by IT managers News
12.12.2012 A key barrier to the uptake of cloud computing technologies is reassuring and convincing IS/IT managers that their jobs would not become obsolete if they shifted to the cloud, a... -
50-fold increase in the size of data globally between 2010 and 2020 (infographic) News
11.12.2012 The amount of data being created in the world is surpassing expectations and a new report by IDC suggests that the digital universe will reach 40 zettabytes by 2020, exceeding... -
Irish start-up makes it through first round of international Tech Trailblazers News
10.12.2012 Irish start-up VentiSys Technology has made it through the first round of Tech Trailblazers and has been shortlisted in the Security Trailblazer category of the awards, which...Categories: Virtualisation, Sustainability, Storage, Servers, Security, Networking & Telecoms, Networking, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, CIO -
Cork electronics firm Powervation raises US$7m in venture investment News
05.12.2012 Powervation, a Cork-based pioneer in digital power IC solutions, has just raised US$7m in Series C funding to fuel its business growth and accelerate market adoption of its...Categories: Wireless Communications, Servers, R&D, Investments, Intellectual Property, Hardware, Energy, Development, Design, Communications -
SunGard ramps up cloud activities with new infrastructure on-tap service News
20.11.2012 Data centre company SunGard Availability Services has ramped up its local cloud services offering with a new on-demand computing platform promising public cloud service-level...Categories: Software, Servers, Infrastructure Management, Digital Business, Data Management, Data Centre -
Cisco buys cloud networking player Meraki for US$1.2bn News
19.11.2012 Meraki, a privately held networking company founded by researchers from MIT, has just been acquired by Cisco for an estimated US$1.2bn. -
Major leadership reshuffle at Microsoft – Sinofsky to leave company News
13.11.2012 Within weeks of launching Windows 8, Microsoft has revealed that the man who masterminded the new operating system’s delivery, Steven Sinofsky, is to leave the company. Julie... -
DAA signs HP for major virtualisation contract News
15.11.2012 Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) is the latest Irish organisation to embark on a major virtualisation project, awarding a five-year contract to HP to consolidate more than 360... -
Twitter apologises for resetting a larger number of passwords than intended News
08.11.2012 Twitter has publicly apologised to its users after unintentionally resetting the passwords of a larger number of accounts beyond those believed to have been compromised by a...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Servers, Security, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech