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Royal Mail, AOL and PayPal lead all-star line-up at Big Data World Congress

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Top IT giants from Royal Mail, AOL and Paypal will converge in London to present their views at the Big Data World Congress - www.bigdatacongress.com.

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Liam Mitchell from Attenda will donate an iPad 3 to the charity Kids Company after winning it in an interactive game at ICS Temperature Control’s stand. ICS was one of 155 companies exhibiting at the recent Data Centre World exhibition, which attracted 3435 visitors over two days.

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Research commissioned by Riverbed reveals that 71 per cent of CIOs are increasing investment in IT.

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Agreement helps meet growing demand for enterprise grade distribution for Hadoop.

Geo Networks makes the connection for Digital Realty

Geo Networks Ltd has announced an agreement to provide Digital Realty with a fully diverse, dedicated, fibre access network connecting its two key UK data centres in the South-East, Digital Chessington and Digital Woking.

Micro Focus schließt Partnerschaft mit IT-oLogy

Micro Focus hat mit der US-amerikanischen Non-Profit-Organisation IT-oLogy eine Partnerschaft vereinbart. In deren Rahmen stellt Micro Focus Lösungen zur Förderung der IT-Ausbildung an amerikanischen Universitäten zur Verfügung

Ipswitch stellt neue Application Performance Monitoring Lösung vor    

IT Management Suite WhatsUp Gold in der Version 16.1 mit Application Performance Monitor

HP bringt neue Lösungen für Unified Communications und mobile Zusammenarbeit

HP stellt neue Multiservice-Router (MSR) auf der Basis offener Standards vor, die mobiles Arbeiten im Unternehmen verbessern.

HP accelerates enterprises’ path to Big Data value

HP Enterprise Services has announced a new information management and analytics (IM&A) service designed to help clients rapidly gain increased value from Big Data assets to support their efforts to drive new revenue opportunities, improve efficiency, reduce risk and lower costs.

UK businesses yet to develop compelling case for big data

IT/business divide prevents organisations exploring big data solutions.

ISACA issues governance and assurance guidance for Big Data

Big data can save big money. A recent McKinsey report found that value gained from data in the US health care sector alone could be more than US $300 billion every year. But traditional tools aren’t enough to manage these extremely large amounts of fast-changing information. To help enterprises use big data effectively, global nonprofit IT association ISACA issued guidance today on how to manage the chaos and address the business benefits and challenges.

ProfitBricks and MapR complete extensive benchmark testing for Hadoop within a virtualised data centre

Provides Organisations with cost effective performance without complexity for scalable Big Data projects.

UK schools save time and money with Dell KACE Systems Management Solutions

Woodbridge High School saves £22,000 and 200 hours of IT management time with KACE Systems Management and Systems Deployment Appliances managed by Joskos.

MapR Technologies closes $30 million in new funding

MapR Technologies, Inc has closed a new round of funding, securing $30 million in series C financing. New investor Mayfield Fund led the funding round, which also includes participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, NEA and Redpoint Ventures bringing total funds raised to $59 million.

IT services market endured a dismal end to 2012

Last year was the worst for IT services contract activity since 2002, according to research from Ovum. Performance in the three months to the end of December 2012 fell well below the levels seen in the same period of 2011, ensuring that annual IT services contract activity fell to its lowest level for 10 years, both in terms of total contract value (TCV) and deal volume.

Women in IT – Tamsin Ashmore, CFO at Ultima

Tamsin Ashmore, CFO at Ultima, discusses her career to date - the challenges she has met along the way and how she has achieved success; and shares some brilliant insights as to women working in the tech space – how companies can support and progress their careers and, importantly, how to improve gender diversity within the industry.

SNIA and STA in storage consolidation

Dr. J Metz, Chair, SNIA Board of Directors and Cameron T. Brett, STA Forum Board of Directors, discuss the formation of the SNIA SCSI Trade Association (STA) Forum and share their thoughts as to what this positive development means for the storage industry (vendors and end users alike) into the future, as well as highlighting the challenges and opportunities facing the sector in the rapidly evolving technology space.

Redefining risk

David Tattam, Chief Research and Content Officer and Co-Founder, Protecht, discusses the company’s mission ‘to redefine the way the world thinks about risk’, with some engaging and informative insights as to how organisations can develop and grow an effective, dynamic risk management framework, with the people-related aspect – culture and conduct – at its core.

An object lesson in storage

Enrico Signoretti, VP Product & Partnerships, Cubbit, explains the company’s DS3 geo-distributed storage solution, provides some background on how the company is developing its presence in then market, and talks of a new technology solution arriving this autumn.

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Royal Mail, AOL and PayPal lead all-star line-up at Big Data World Congress

Data Centre World competition winner donates iPad to Kids Company

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