The Social Media Pulse: Cracking the Mobile Code

For one week in February, 25,000 plugged-in people around the world paused from their tweeting, posting and pinning to rub elbows in the real world. The venue: Social Media Week, a sprawling twice-yearly conference that takes place in multiple cities simultaneously. Then again, ‘pause’ may be a strong word: conference attendees generated thousands of tweets, instagrams and vines, and tens of thousands of people who could not attend physically tuned into the conference online.  If you’re looking to take the ever-quickening pulse of social media, this is the place to…

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Windows Server 2003 on the March to Retirement

When we look back on 2014 in IT, there are going to be a couple of things that dominate our thinking and my guess is it won’t be BYOD or Big Data. In reality, a much more mundane yet critical event will be at the forefront. That is the end of extended support status for key workhorse applications Windows XP, Exchange 2003 and Windows Server 2003.  I’ve written before about the level of effort needed to migrate from Windows XP and the bottom line is, if you haven’t started that data migration,…

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Gartner Says the Internet of Things Will Transform the Data Center

By 2020 the IoT Will Include 26 Billion Units, Creating New Challenges for All Aspects of the Data Center. Data Center Trends to be Discussed at the Gartner Infrastructure, Operations and Data Center Summit 2014, May 21-22 in Sydney The Internet of Things (IoT) has a potential transformational effect on the data center market, its customers, technology providers, technologies, and sales and marketing models, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner estimates that the IoT will include 26 billion units installed by 2020, and by that time, IoT product and service suppliers will…

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The Future of IT

New Demands Require a Shift in Business Processes What an exciting time to be in the tech industry.  We are at the beginning of a major transition to the Mobile-Cloud era.  Trends like bring your own device (BYOD), access anywhere, virtualization, and machine-to-machine connections have given way to a new breed of applications.  We estimate that approximately 50 billion devices will be connected by 2020. In 2010 alone, more than 350, 000 applications were developed with more than three million downloads.  A 44-fold increase in data creation is predicted from…

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Gartner Says 70 Percent of CIOs Will Change Their Technology and Sourcing Relationships in the Next Two to Three Years

Digital Business Will Reshape the Service Provider Landscape Key Issues Facing IT Services Industry to Be Examined at Gartner Sourcing & Strategic Vendor Relationships Summits 2014, June 2-3 in London and September 10-12 in Orlando, Florida. Torrential changes will reshape the service provider landscape over the next several years as organizations struggle to adjust to a digital future, according to Gartner, Inc. A recent global survey of CIOs by Gartner’s Executive Programs found that 70 percent of CIOs will change their technology and sourcing relationships in the next two to…

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25 years of World Wide Web.

What pops into your head when thinking of the World Wide Web? Words such as boundless, huge and even trampoline might cross your mind, yet the first adjectives it got were “vague but exciting.” Quite far from what we think of it today, on its 25th birthday.  A confusion still surrounding the World Wide Web is that it is often mistaken for the Internet. The Internet is the network of computers that circulates data around the globe, whereas the Web is one application that delivers data in form of webpages. Before Sir…

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Ukrainian channels disappear in Crimea

All Ukrainian on-air broadcasters have lost their audience in Crimea in the past week, according Valentyn Koval, the general manager of M1 and M2 TV channels. In a statement provided to Broadband TV News, he adds that new management of retransmission centres across Crimea switched off all Ukrainian TV channels and re-routed signals of Russian TV channels to transmitters instead. “I should add that most Ukrainian channels used their own transmitters and antennas, so this re-routing was made without any agreements and we consider our property is stolen or “annexed””. Koval…

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HP Extends Enterprise Mobility Solution to Meet Government-level Security Requirements

New flexible service, hosted on HP’s FedRAMP-authorized cloud, simplifies device and app management to accelerate government mobility, improve workforce productivity PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP Enterprise Services today announced a new service designed to help accelerate the U.S. public sector’s adoption of mobile technology to drive workforce productivity, while securing IT assets. The growth in adoption of high-bandwidth mobile services presents the opportunity for a new era of digital government. Government employees expect broad and seamless access to business and personal applications and data from their device of choice. In…

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Unified Threat Management Was Main Driver of the EMEA Security Appliance Market in 2013

LONDON and PRAGUE, 18 March 2014 — According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Europe, Middle East and Africa Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, 4Q14 vendor revenue for the EMEA security appliance market reached $688.5 million, a 0.4% decrease over the same quarter a year ago. Shipments declined by 8.7% year on year with 185,019 units shipped. For 2013, the security appliance market vendor revenue totalled about $2.5 billion, representing a 2.4% increase over 2012. IDC currently forecasts the security appliance market to reach nearly $4.2 billion in value by 2018,…

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Banks to pay Microsoft millions to keep cash machines running Windows XP

April deadline looms large but 95 per cent of all ATMs still run the ancient OS. Banks around the world are set to stump up millions of pounds to Microsoft in a bid to keep their cash machines running after support for the venerable operating system runs out in April. According to reports by Reuters, only a third of cash machines running will have upgraded to Windows 7 by the April deadline. There are around 2.2 million machines worldwide and currently 95 per cent of them run XP. The move to…

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