More Enterprise News
- 02 November 2011
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News: Why Today's CIO Must Foster IT Agility
Dell CIO Robin Johnson explains how a company's lack of agility, the inability of its IT infrastructure to quickly incorporate a new business process that would give it a competitive edge, can be costly. Johnson explains why the price of this lack of agility, what he refers to as the agility tax, is too high to pay.
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News: Supreme Court set to hear landmark GPS tracking case
The U.S. Supreme Court next week will begin hearing arguments in a landmark case involving the government's authority to use GPS tracking devices in criminal investigations without first obtaining a court order.
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News: HDS to release converged computing platform for SAP
Hitachi Data Systems plans to release its latest flavor of Converged Platform data center offerings aimed at analyzing massive amounts of data in SAP environments.
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News: Hospital electronic records adoption jumps, but still low
Hospitals that are prepared to adopt electronic medical records and achieve the government's "meaningful use" criteria have increased significantly, from 25% to 41%, according to new research.
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News: Siri, When Will Apple Launch its iTunes Match Music Service?
In a rare twist, Apple missed a self-imposed deadline to launch iTunes Match, an ambitious service that mirrors your iTunes music library in the cloud. The company said on October 4, during the iPhone 4S launch event, that iTunes Match would be available by the end of October, yet two days after the deadline, the service is nowhere to be found.
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News: Informatica rolls out data parser for Hadoop
Informatica has strengthened its hand in the burgeoning market for Hadoop, the open-source programming framework for large-scale data processing, unveiling a new data parser on Wednesday that can transform piles of unstructured information into a more structured form for use in running Hadoop jobs.
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News: India Exempts Its Outsourcers from New Privacy Rules
India's outsourcing industry breathes a sigh of relief as the government exempts it from strict new data protection rules.
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News: GE Healthcare targets faster document processing by cutting customisation
GE Healthcare is aiming to more than halve the time it takes to process documents by implementing a less customised version of EMC’s enterprise content management (ECM) solution Documentum.
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News: Toyota expects to offer health care robots in 2013
Toyota Motor Corp. is bringing high tech to health care, as it works on a family of robots geared to lift patients and help the paralyzed walk.
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News: Small businesses stuck in IT dark age claims Intel report
A shortage of money, combined with a lack of technical expertise, is keeping half of small businesses in a technology “dark age”, according to a large survey.
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News: How CIOs Build Bridges With Other C-Level Execs
Top-notch CIOs are boosting IT's reputation and forming stronger relationships with other business leaders
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News: Sorry, I don't hate the new Gmail
There's always a temptation to trash companies' efforts when they try to revamp popular formats. In the case of the new Gmail, however, this approach is unwarranted.
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News: DVD streaming service Zediva told to shut down
This is one Hollywood story without a happy ending: DVD-streaming upstart Zediva must close its virtual doors. Launched in early 2011, Zediva offered a Netflix-like streaming service, but attempted to skirt issues like limited rental-only discs and 28-day release delays with its novel approach: The company gave customers remote access to actual DVD players playing regular, store-bought DVDs. Now, however, a federal judge has issued a permanent injunction against the company, effectively shuttering the service for good.
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News: Public sector could derive revenue from data management improvements, says EMC
The public sector will be investing more in improving its management of information in a bid to reduce costs and increase revenue, an EMC executive has predicted.
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News: VMware out, Twitter in at Java oversight committee
VMware is no longer a member of the Java Community Process SE/EE Executive Committee, but Twitter has joined, according to election results finalized this week.
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News: House passes freeze on new mobile taxes
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to approve a five-year moratorium on new taxes targeted toward mobile services, with supporters arguing that customers pay higher taxes on their mobile plans than on most other goods and services.
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News: Smartphones, social media tied into ELERTS emergency system
Chris Russo, deputy fire chief in the Massachusetts coastal town of Hull, launches ELERTS, an emergency communication system that uses smartphones and social media to communicate with first responders and other emergency personnel.
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News: Track cloud spending with Cloudability
Imagine plopping down your credit card to turn on compute services late at night when there's no time to get permission from your boss and then getting distracted before the weekend on another work emergency. On Monday, when you remember you signed up for the services, which you intended to use for just a short time, you discover you've racked up US$5,000 in charges on your personal card.
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News: OpenFlow vs. programmable ASICs
Can you program a network of multivendor switches and routers, all running different operating systems, command line interfaces and configuration routines, to work in concert when it comes to managing flows?
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News: Cisco vs. HP vs. IBM vs. Dell
Cisco used to be a networking company, pure and simple. It built its dominance and influence on capturing a dominant market position in routers and switches, both in the enterprise and in service provider networks.
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New Xbox One release date, specs, features and price in UK
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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Apple iPhone 5 comparison review
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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Nexus 4 smartphone comparison review: what's the best Android?
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Galaxy S4 vs BlackBerry Z10 comparison review - which is best, the Samsung or the BlackBerry?
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Microsoft Windows 8 review
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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Apple iPhone 5 comparison review
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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Nexus 4 smartphone comparison review: what's the best Android?
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Galaxy S4 vs BlackBerry Z10 comparison review - which is best, the Samsung or the BlackBerry?
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Microsoft Windows 8 review
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Surface Pro review - Microsoft tablet offers true power computing on the move
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