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ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 29, 2013
Office 365 Attracts New Group of Government/Education Organizations Microsoft Corp. has announced that eight government and education organization have adopted the Microsoft Office 365 cloud productivity platform to reduce costs, improve collaboration, and modernize their technology infrastructures. These include the Cities of Kansas City, Missouri, and Seattle, Oregon; University of Miami; California State University, Sacramento; ...
Windows Server 2012 is a Must-Have Upgrade, But Select Carefully from the Menu
The latest Wikibon study has found that Microsoft Server 2012 is a must-have upgrade but that users should be careful in their feature selections, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in his latest Professional Alert. Specifically, the research results indicate that ODX, Hyper-V V3, and TRIM/UNMAP are priority features, praised by study interviewees, that users should ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 28, 2013
Catalonia Awards HP US$40 Million Contract for Applications Services The Generalitat de Catalunya, an institution of the Government of the Spanish Province of Catalonia, has signed an agreement valued at US $40 million for HP to modernize its application environments, supporting economic growth in the region. Under the six-year agreement, HP will provide application services ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 27, 2013
Infosys Wins Work Placement of the Year Infosys has won a top accolade in the National Council for Work Experience (NCWE) Awards 2013, making it one of the U.K.’s best internship providers. The NCWE awards have been rewarding employers who provide high-quality internships to students and graduates for a decade. Categories cover large and small ...
Five Questions CIOs Need to Answer Before Jumping on the Cloud
Cloud computing can offer advantages in the right circumstances, writes Wikibon Analyst, Consultant and former CIO Scott Lowe in his latest Wikibon Professional Alert. But reaping the greatest benefit — and avoiding the pitfalls — requires careful planning and analysis. To this end, Lowe discusses five important questions that he says CIOs need to answer ...
Big Pharma Harnessing Big Data to Speed New Drug Development
New drug development is one of the most expensive and risky activities that any business undertakes, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly in his latest Wikibon Professional Alert. Taking a new drug from discovery to market takes 12 years and costs about $4 billion on average. And that is if the drug makes it ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 26, 2013
American University of Kuwait Chooses EMC for IT Transformation The American University of Kuwait (AUK) has chosen EMC and VMware virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies to transform its IT infrastructure and manage mission-critical applications, including Microsoft Exchange 2010, Oracle, Luminis Portal, and LMS Moodle. It is using EMC VNX unified storage and Fast Suite and ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 25, 2013
IBM Crowdsources Information on South African Water Distribution IBM marked World Water Day by announcing a crowdsourcing project to capture, share, and analyze information about the water distribution system in South Africa. The “WaterWatchers” project uses a mobile phone app and SMS to allow South Africans to report water leaks, faulty water pipes, and general ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 22, 2013
HP Delivers Cutting-Edge Tech for DreamWorks Latest Animated Comedy DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. has chosen HP to deliver the technology behind its latest comedy adventure, “The Croods”, pushing the boundaries of imagery for this prehistoric animated adventure. DreamWorks Animation leveraged technical resources throughout HP to create the most advanced graphics to date for the family ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 21, 2013
Mediaprint Transforms IT, Streamlines Editorial, with EMC Mediaprint, Austria’s largest newspaper and magazine publisher, has transformed its IT infrastructure with EMC VNX unified storage, EMC VPLEX Metro virtual storage, and VMware virtualization solutions. They have allowed Mediaprint to increase application performance by 300%, achieve five-nines availability for critical publishing, editorial, and production systems, and accelerate ...