Stories by: Leo King

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Social media will take hold in business this year – Accenture 25 January, 2012 06:11:00

Businesses will finally grasp, this year, how to use social media to their best advantage, for internal and external communications, according to the predictions of consultancy Accenture in its Technology Vision 2012 report.
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Netsuite's Zach Nelson: SAP was forced to make SuccessFactors cloud move 10 December, 2011 20:11:00

Netsuite chief executive Zach Nelson has claimed that rival SAP was effectively forced to make a multibillion dollar entry into cloud computing last week, because industry trends were changing - and customers were tiring of the multi-year on premise deployments the German vendor has traditionally sold.
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AMD inside trader sentenced to 11 years in jail 15 October, 2011 19:12:00

Raj Rajaratnam - the Galleon hedge fund founder convicted of insider trading on millions of dollars worth of AMD, IBM and other stocks - has been handed an 11-year jail sentence.
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IDC: Mobile device chaos creating heightened security demand 15 September, 2011 18:12:00

The proliferation of mobile devices is competitively important for businesses but is creating "chaos" for security professionals, IDC has warned.
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Four in 10 servers are virtual, snapshot study shows 20 July, 2011 00:11:00

Nearly four in every 10 servers are not physical, according to a virtualisation study that has examined large businesses in the UK, US, France and Germany.
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IDC: Technology consumerisation is overhauling the IT role 13 June, 2011 18:15:00

The consumerisation of technology in the workplace, whereby users bring in their own devices and even sign up to their own choice of cloud systems, is drastically changing the role of the IT department.
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IT security regulations ‘totally out of date’ 07 June, 2011 03:10:00

The legal framework in which businesses operate their IT and data security is "totally outdated" and dates "from the 20th Century, while attempting to tackle problems in the 21st", according to a panel of experts.
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Veeam adds backup support for Microsoft Hyper-V 17 May, 2011 00:54:00

Virtual infrastructure management firm Veeam Software has added Backup & Replication support for Microsoft Hyper-V, in an important move in the virtualisation market.
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NHS agreement with CSC ‘weeks away’ 05 May, 2011 21:13:00

An agreement between the NHS and CSC is due to be signed in the "next few weeks", according to the supplier.
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Seven in 10 businesses worried about managing cloud 04 April, 2011 17:14:00

Seventy one percent of businesses are concerned about managing cloud computing, according to a survey.
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Smart meter cloud announced by IBM and Cable & Wireless 22 March, 2011 01:15:00

IBM and Cable & Wireless are set to collaborate to offer a 'smart energy cloud' to support the UK's new energy meter rollout.