Despite opening a new $80 million facility in Auckland this year, IBM is about to lose two major datacentre customers. …
Microsoft, Citrix join VMware at top of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant
It’s getting harder for VMware to argue that it’s the only game in town for big-time virtualisation projects. Sure, every …
Gaming spend to exceed $74b in 2011: Gartner
The gaming ecosystem is undergoing major technology and business model transitions that will last beyond 2015. Gartner estimates that worldwide …
Microsoft Office 365 goes live
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launched the much-awaited Office 365 yesterday, after a beta program of about nine months, as the …
Windows OS going strong, Windows IE on the decline: Forrester
A new study of corporate operating system and browser trends by Forrester Research reveals both good news and bad news …
Look and listen
Steady growth in the cloud services sector reflects the rapid pace at which companies are moving all or portions of …
Netezza rolls out large-scale analytic appliance
IBM’s Netezza division is rolling out a new analytic appliance that can analyse up to 10 petabytes of data “in …
HP unveils thin client virtualisation solutions
Faced with increasing competition and a fast paced global environment organisations are making investments in strategic IT investments that enable …
Femtos outnumber 3G basestations
Informa Telecoms & Media today issued its latest femtocell market status report which revealed that there are now in excess …
If it’s Tuesday, it must be Prague
Friends and colleagues of journalists believe we live charmed lives, forever travelling round the world in business class, hosted at …
Starbucks using smartphone barcode system for payment
Starbucks said this week it has seen plenty of customers interested in using smartphones to pay for their coffee. The …
Mozilla to add PDF viewer to Firefox
Mozilla is working on a project that will add PDF rendering to Firefox using HTML5 and JavaScript, eliminating the need …
HP systems might be hacked
Hewlett-Packard Co. has become the latest to add its name to the rapidly growing list of high-profile corporate hacking victims. …
Ericsson announces winners of networked society innovation awards
Ericsson has announced the winners of its “Ericsson Networked Society Innovation Awards” during an award ceremony held at the Four …
Driving innovation
With more organisations making the transition to virtual computing it is time to understand the basis for successful implementation of …
Nokia Siemens talks more QoS in mobile networks
“Nokia Siemens Networks is hoping more operators will start using QoS to offer differentiated mobile broadband services. But the technology …
IT governance is about leadership: Gartner
To successfully implement IT governance, CIOs require both leadership and execution, according to Gartner. Great IT leaders master process, and …
Harris Atlas discusses cyber security at roundtable
The world is at the precipice of a migration of technologies according to Dale Meyerrose, VP and GM of Cyberspace …
Mid-market CIOs focus on analytics: IBM
Implementing business analytics has risen to the top of midmarket CIOs’ to-do lists, according to a new IBM study announced …
Anonymous targets Turkish goverment site
Hacker group Anonymous said over the weekend it had launched DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on some Turkish government …