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RSS computing in newsTelegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News Businesses thinking of switching to cloud computing should expect a bumpy probation period, if the experience of The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is anything to go by. TMG has also recently struck a new deal with another... [04 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News Thin client technology can extend your refresh cycles, whilst reducing energy and waste from your computing infrastructure," advised Green. Gartner's Mingay recommends firms should be looking to cloud... [29 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News CIO of Jaguar Land Rover Jeremy Vincent is a recent convert to cloud computing Vincent may have been a recent convert to cloud computing, but its impact on his strategy has been significant. About six or... [26 Oct 2009]
Will 'citizen developers' shake up IT development?
News Cloud computing is another important factor as it means developers no longer have to be inside the enterprise to get access to computing resources and infrastructure, Gartner added. We've had the... [23 Oct 2009]
The top 10 technologies you need to plan for next year
News Cloud computing A technology which also made Gartner's list for 2009, the advent of cloud computing could help cut costs and will also see enterprise IT departments acting as cloud providers themselves,... [22 Oct 2009]
Former MySQL boss joins Benchmark Capital
News Mickos is also on the board of cloud computing start-up RightScale and Thunderbird email software backer Mozilla Messaging. Marten Mickos, the one-time chief executive of MySQL who left about a year after Sun... [01 Oct 2009]
Bletchley Park lands £460,000 funding boost from lottery
News Bletchley, which houses the National Museum of Computing, has won £460,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help fund its restoration and could receive a further £4.1m to transform it into a heritage and educational... [29 Sep 2009]
Intel takes aim at clever TVs as the gogglebox gets connected
News Intel may not have attained the same dominance in TVs as it has in personal computers, but the company remains convinced that interactive, networked, computing-intensive tasks will win the company a foothold in the world... [28 Sep 2009]
The PC is past it: Computing power is everywhere, says Intel
News The market has shifted and grown, and the need for computing power is everywhere. At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, chief executive Paul Otellini left attendees with a simple message: we'll keep... [24 Sep 2009]
Mobile computing keeping PC shipments afloat
News Despite earlier, more dire predictions, PC sales are now estimated to fall off just two per cent from 2008 totals, according to a report released on Wednesday. The latest forecast issued from market research firm Gartner says PC... [24 Sep 2009]
Intel: How chip maker is tackling the changing datacentre
News Three elements - computing, storage and networking - are beginning to overlap, meaning that one cannot be addressed without considering the others, he said. At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, chip business... [23 Sep 2009]
Sage takes CRM to Amazon's cloud
News Business software maker Sage has begun a cloud computing pilot. The CRM arm of Sage unveiled the cloud version of its SalesLogix suite this week, which is to be hosted on Amazon's EC2 cloud infrastructure. [18 Sep 2009]
White House looks to the cloud for IT cost-cutting
News The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a long-term cloud-computing policy intended to cut costs on infrastructure and reduce the environmental impact of US government computing systems. As an... [17 Sep 2009]
Salesforce.com tech to turn customers' Twittering into useful feedback
News For companies that want to turn all those customer tweets and updates on Twitter and Facebook into something more constructive, Salesforce.com is bringing some new services to its cloud-computing infrastructure. [10 Sep 2009]
Virtualisation: Forget datacenters, think ordinary people
News VMware View is the latest twist on a technology called thin client computing. Cloud computing, in which applications run over the web in web browsers rather than natively on PCs, provides another way to... [04 Sep 2009]
