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Thin clients can offer 50% savings for SMBs: study
SMBs can halve the cost of their IT infrastructure by switching to a thin client model, according to research carried out by Lancaster University and Thinspace.The TCO study reveals that any company with more than six employees can reduce
Blue Coat warns of World Cup network collapse
Network connections up and down the country will be under huge pressure this summer as workers tune in to watch the World Cup. With at least one England match due to kick off during working hours, Blue Coat is warning that many companies will
‘More with less’ still tops UK CIO agenda
CIOs throughout the UK believe that reducing expenditure will be their top priority over the next three years, according to new research from modernisation vendor Micro Focus.Nearly half (43%) of the CIOs quizzed said that cost cutting tops the
Execs turning from cost-cutting to innovation?
A survey by Avanade of over 500 global C-level executives and IT decision-makers in 17 countries, has found that the number of respondents who say they are now under pressure to innovate rather than save costs has jumped by 56% since a similar
Fujitsu claims UK storage surge
Fujitsu has reported a strong upsurge in UK storage sales and is now expecting to double the number of terabytes it will ship in the current year. During the period October to March, Fujitsu saw the volume of storage it shipped in terms of
JP Morgan’s process failure
JP Morgan has been hit with a £33m fine for failure to protect billions of pounds worth of their clients’ money. More specifically, the FSA discovered that JP’s futures and options business was keeping up to £23bn in institutional client money
HP hires new EMEA heads
HP today announced a series of senior appointments across the organisation in Europe, Middle East and Africa.HP has appointed Antoine Barre as vice president and general manager for HP’s Personal System Group Middle East and Africa region. In his
Tony Blair lands green energy job
The decision by the Silicon Valley-based Khosla Venture to hire Tony Blair as strategy adviser on green energy will surprise some environmental campaigners. You need only go as far back as 2003 to find the former prime minster being slammed from
In Depth: Aviva rolls out SaaS HR
As part of its Quantum Leap strategy to get 12 European businesses acting as one, Aviva is rolling out a single, software as a service (SaaS) human resources system from Workday. “At a meeting of regional CEOs, the question was asked, ‘if you were
Pentaho gears up for BI cloud push
Commercial open source business intelligence vendor Pentaho is gearing up to make a much stronger push in the area of Software as a Service (SaaS) thanks in part to its acquisition of SaaS player LucidEra in October of last year, CBR has