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85 per cent of companies embracing open source
News In terms of the business processes for which open source software is being used, customer service headed Gartner's list, although enterprise integration, finance and administration and business analytics also showed... [18 Nov 2008]
PC vendors under the microscope
News For HP, already a third of its business comes from software, services, and enterprise storage, while another third is derived from selling PCs and consumer devices. Within its lineup of products, it's fairly well... [17 Nov 2008]
Are you the new Q? MoD wants to hear from you
News The event will be jointly hosted by University and the Ministry of Defence's Centre for Defence Enterprise and will feature MoD personnel and recently returned troops, who can provide would be suppliers with insights... [14 Nov 2008]
High fashion gets high tech with SaaS embrace
News The silicon.com CIO Jury recently delivered a mixed verdict on whether the cloud was the future of enterprise computing, with six of the 12 IT heads saying they believe SaaS will be the future of software.silicon.com... [14 Nov 2008]
How CIOs learned to stop worrying and love the iPhone
News That's just part of the uphill battle the iPhone faces in the enterprise. Executives and salespeople - the primary users of mobile computers in the enterprise - are constantly on the go, and an executive... [14 Nov 2008]
World IT spending still to grow next year
News Because of the worldwide financial crisis, the firm expects spending on technology by enterprise companies to grow by just 2.6 per cent next year compared with 2008. Industry analyst firm IDC is revising its yearly... [14 Nov 2008]
Seagate: We won't do flash, it doesn't pay
News The world's largest hard drive maker Seagate is planning to bring out an enterprise solid state drive (SSD) to market for the first time by mid-2009 - but it has no plans to get into the mobile flash memory business,... [05 Nov 2008]
Salesforce.com teams up with web 2.0 titans
News Speaking at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco this week, Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, said: "We still think there's a lot more to do [for Facebook] especially in productivity and... [04 Nov 2008]
Google pledges reliability for its cloud-based Apps
News Matthew Glotzbach, director of Google Enterprise product management, said in his blog: "Today, we're announcing that we will extend the 99.9 per cent service level agreement we offer Premier Edition customers on Gmail to... [31 Oct 2008]
IBM chip guru agrees to join Apple
News But a spruced-up Xserve blade server could be a nice complement to the Mac if Apple ever gets serious about tackling the enterprise market. One of IBM's top chip executives has agreed to join Apple as a senior executive... [31 Oct 2008]
Microsoft's cloud has an Azure tinge
News Thompson said: "All our enterprise software will be delivered as an online service as an option. Microsoft on Monday announced a version of Windows that runs over the internet from inside Microsoft's own data centres. [28 Oct 2008]
Microsoft 'critically' patches 'worm hole'
News The company did say that a firewall should block network resources from attacks from outside the enterprise perimeter. On Thursday, Microsoft issued a rare out-of-cycle patch for a vulnerability in the Windows Server... [24 Oct 2008]
Top 10 strategic techs for 2009
News Web-centric technologies and standards will continue to affect enterprise computing models, says Gartner - leading to greater use of service-oriented environments in the business over the next five years. [15 Oct 2008]
Enterprise web 2.0 costs set to plunge
News Good news for credit crunch squeezed CIOs: the price of enterprise web 2.0 tools is set to plummet. According to a new report by Forrester analyst G Oliver Young, the average deal size for web 2.0 tools including blogs,... [13 Oct 2008]
IBM offers training incentives for business partners
News Last week, the company introduced a scheme to help its business partners who are co-operating on its New Enterprise Data Centre strategy. IBM, which expects to unveil better-than-expected quarterly figures, has announced... [13 Oct 2008]
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