Fear rules in the boardroom

More than a third (33%) of workplace projects have been blocked by the board/company management due to fear, according to new *research commissioned by Mozy® by EMC, the world’s most trusted provider of online data backup and access solutions. In addition, 64% of IT decision makers believe management are the most fearful of new technology implementations and more than half (65%) stated that they or their company perceives the adoption of technology as a risk.

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Businesses must prepare for IT upgrade “iceberg”, warns QuoStar Solutions

Businesses of all sizes are currently facing a serious threat to their IT security and functionality as the first major software expiry event of this decade approaches. In April 2014, six of the most popular Microsoft products used in UK businesses will go ‘end-of-life’, meaning that Microsoft will no longer release or support updates for these products.

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Organisations slow to wake up to changing data integration demands

Quarter seeing plateau in value from data; only one in ten to be “evolved” in next 12 months.

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Big Data optimisation

Informatica Corporation has announced customers are implementing the Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition, powered by the Informatica Vibe virtual data machine, to save costs and optimise their end-to-end big data processing. Informatica delivers a comprehensive data integration platform for Hadoop environments, with support for all major Hadoop distributions including Apache, Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR. Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition also runs on the Teradata portfolio of...

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Casper Malig appointed UK Managing Director for T-Systems

T-Systems announces that Casper Malig has joined the company as Managing Director for its UK business, effective July 1st 2013. With a strong track record from a number of executive positions with global IT services companies including CSC and EDS, Casper Malig will assume responsibility for leading T-Systems’ UK business in its next phase of development. He succeeds Sam Kingston, who will remain at T-Systems until the end of September in order to secure a smooth handover.

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MapR Technologies announces ‘breakthrough’ performance with Fusion-io for NoSQL and Hadoop

Combined solution boosts performance 25X for read intensive HBase applications.

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Australian fish farm undergoes IT upgrade by investing in edge infrastructure

Australian fism farming company Tassal looked at harnessing IT to make its business of growing salmon more sustainable and cost-effective. It invested in an integrated IT solution powered by Vertiv and Dell EMC for its business in Tasmania.

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