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ServicesAngle News Briefs for 5 July 2013
IBM Announces Morocco Global Delivery Center, 400 New Tech Jobs IBM has announced a new Global Delivery Center in Casablanca that will involve creating up to 400 new IT roles in Morocco over the next three years. The center will enable IBM to deliver innovative technology services in Morocco and across French-speaking Africa. It will ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for 3 July 2013
VMworld 2013 Scheduled for San Francisco, Barcelona VMware Inc. has announced that VMworld 2013 U.S. will return to the Moscone Center in San Francisco August 25-29, celebrating the 10th annual event in the United States. VMworld 2013 Europe is scheduled for Oct. 14-17 in Fira Barcelona Gran Via in Barcelona. More Microsoft to Release ...
IBM Fellow Neil Bartlett Sees Risk Analytics as Key to a Better World
Ed. Note: Neil Bartlett was CTO and Head of Analytics for risk management systems developer Algorithmic when it sold itself to IBM in October 2011. With the acquisition, he became CTO & Head of Development for Risk Analytics at IBM Canada Ltd. This April he was one of eight IBM employees to be named IBM ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for 2 July 2013
EMC Names Former Accenture CEO, Chairman to Board of Directors EMC Corp. has announced the appointment of William D. Greene, former chairman of Accenture plc., to the EMC Board, effective immediately. His appointment expands the EMC BoD to 12. He served as Chairman of Accenture from August 2006 until his retirement in February 2013. From ...
The Year of the Virtual Desktop? For IaaS Provider Navisite it Definitely Is
If you are a CIO you’ve probably heard it every year. “This is the year of desktop virtualization”. Well, for IaaS provider Navisite, 2013 definitely is the year of VDI, or more precisely Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS). It has found a nice growth business, primarily initially in higher education and healthcare, where it has found strong use ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for 1 July 2013
Jordanian Bank Chooses IBM to Transform Customer Experience The Jordan Ahli Bank has chosen IBM to modernize its core banking systems to meet new standards of customer service and support business expansion. IBM is providing hardware, software, & IT services to enable the bank to offer smarter products and services, enhance client satisfaction with improved ...
Look at BoB When Choosing Software Asset Management Tools
As organizations grow, they reach a point where they need a strong software asset management (SAM) solution both to ensure that they are in compliance with software licensing and to identify applications that have little or no use and are costing the company money, writes Express Metrix CEO and Co-Founder Kris Barker in his latest ...
IT Faces Revolutionary Change, Who Will Survive?
An unprecedented group of technological and market forces are forcing a radical restructuring of the IT industry at a blinding pace never seen before in the history of IT, and indeed not in human history since the end of WW II. The closest thing to it in recent history was the PC revolution of the ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for 28 June 2013
HP Wins Place in U.S. Navy’s Next Generation Enterprise Network Contract HP Enterprise Services and its NGEN Alliance partners, AT&T Government Solutions Inc., IBM Global Services Federal, Lockheed Martin Services Inc., and Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., have been awarded the U.S. Department of the Navy’s Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) contract. Valued at $3.45 billion ...
IBM Makes Moves in Flash Storage, Cloud at Edge 2013
IBM announced some major steps in both flash and cloud services at the recent IBM Edge 2013 conference in Las Vegas, writes Wikibon Analyst, Consultant, and former CIO Scott Lowe in his Wikibon Alert, “What IBM Edge, Cloud and Flash Mean to the CIO”. While IBM is not pioneering new approaches or technologies in flash, ...