Tagged: Cloud & News
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The five minute CIO: Vincent Nolan News
10.05.2013 Smyths Toys is one of Ireland’s fastest-growing retailers. Its head of IT Vincent Nolan talks about changing the mindset from an SME to an enterprise, and why IT operations... -
Cloud Compare launches Cloud Ready workshops for businesses News
08.05.2013 Cloud services brokerage Cloud Compare is taking National Cloud Week as its opportunity to launch tailored Cloud Ready workshops for business owners and directors as well as...Tags: Cloud, -
IIA and Enterprise Ireland to hit the road with series of Cloud Adoption events News
07.05.2013 The Irish Internet Associaion (IIA) has teamed up with Enterprise Ireland on a Cloud Adoption Event Series – a cloud roadshow sponsored by Microsoft Ireland that intends to... -
Microsoft sets National Cloud Week afloat with €600,000 software donation to Barnardos News
07.05.2013 National Cloud Week is the second annual series of events organised by Microsoft in Ireland to raise awareness of the benefits of cloud among businesses in all sectors. This... -
Sea Fibre Networks’ C-fibre solution links Dublin to Paris News
29.04.2013 Carrier-neutral fibre player Sea Fibre Networks is enabling the cloud economy with the expansion of its C-Fibre portfolio from the greater Dublin area to Paris, via London. -
Wayra seeks 10 digital start-ups for Dublin incubator News
25.04.2013 Wayra, Telefónica’s global start-up accelerator, is on the lookout for up to 10 digital start-ups to develop and commercialise their ideas at its Dublin accelerator.Categories: Virtualisation, Research, Online Business, Networking, Mobile, Digital Media, Digital BusinessTags: Big Data, Machine-to-Machine Communications , Mobile, Virtualisation, Telefonica, O2, Start-ups, Cloud, HTML5 -
Colt connects Cork to mainland Europe via 43,000 km fibre network News
25.04.2013 The city of Cork’s digital aspirations have been given a welcome boost with the news that global data network operator Colt has connected the city to mainland Europe via its... -
VMware posts 13pc rise in first-quarter revenue of US$1.19bn News
24.04.2013 Revenues rose and profit plummeted for VMware during the first quarter of 2013. The cloud and virtualisation software and services provider reported revenues of US$1.19bn, a... -
IBM buys UrbanCode to help businesses quickly deliver software News
23.04.2013 Technology giant IBM is expanding its DevOps strategy, designed to enhance the software development and delivery process for businesses, with the acquisition of UrbanCode Inc... -
The five-minute CIO: Peter Mitchell News
19.04.2013 Peter Mitchell, the chief technology officer of fleet management software provider Fleetmatics, shares his insights on why product development teams need to work with sales and...Categories: Sales, Mobile, Management, Leadership & Management, IT Management, Development, CIO, Apps -
Microsoft strikes at Amazon’s cloud infrastructure heartland News
16.04.2013 Amazon’s status as the enabler of cloud infrastructure for start-ups and organisations striving for flexibility is to be threatened by Microsoft, which has just announced its...Categories: Web, Virtualisation, Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, R&D, Internet, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise, Digital Business, Data Centre, Apps -
Seasoned start-up co-founders put the detail back into retail News
16.04.2013 Sometimes in life it is the journey and not the destination that matters the most. That could be said of Conall Lavery, a seasoned Irish technology executive who sold his IT... -
Firms urged to look at alternatives for a post-XP world News
12.04.2013 With Microsoft announcing the withdrawal of support for Windows XP from April next year, many organisations face a decision about upgrading their PCs still running it: one... -
Seven Irish companies make the Red Herring 100 list of European tech firms News
11.04.2013 Seven Irish companies have made this year’s Red Herring 100 list of up-and-coming private European tech firms. This achievement shows that a small country like Ireland is... -
HP to build 87,000 sq-foot cloud R&D operation in Galway for 700 workers News
08.04.2013 HP has applied for planning permission to build a new 87,000 sq-foot R&D and cloud facility in Galway that will house up to 700 workers. -
Former Intel, EMC and Bord Gais senior brass join WiseTek board News
05.04.2013 Former Intel Ireland general manager Jim O’Hara, ex-senior VP at EMC Dick Lehane and former Bord Gais CEO John Mullins have joined the board of Cork-headquartered OEM services... -
Vodafone vows to end bill complexity with new RED price plans News
02.04.2013 Vodafone said today it is challenging the current conventions on tariffing by revealing five new Vodafone RED mobile price plans that range in price from €35 a month to €75 per...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Financial, Data Management, Consumer Tech -
World Backup Day reminds us to preserve our memories (infographic) News
31.03.2013 Today is the third annual World Backup Day, devised by Youngstown State University student Ismail Jadun to occur the day before 1 April, reminding us all not to be a fool and to... -
Amazon acquires bookish social community Goodreads News
29.03.2013 E-commerce, gadget and cloud giant Amazon has acquired Goodreads, the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations which has a community of 16m who have added 530m... -
App blacklisting becoming more common in enterprise mobility – Citrix report News
20.03.2013 Citrix’s latest Enterprise Mobility Cloud Report from Q4 2012 shows how organisations are dealing with an increasingly mobile workforce, and which apps organisations don’t want...