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G2 Crowd challenges Gartner's Magic Quadrant with crowdsourced grids
Might the hegemony of Gartner?s Magic Quadrant be under threat? It sounds like a long shot but Chicago startup G2 Crowd thinks it has come up with a disruptive alternative - ditch analysts and ask IT professionals what they think instead.
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Betfair selects VMware vCloud to speed app development
Online betting exchange Betfair has implemented VMware?s vCloud as its attempts to redefine its IT department as a ?service broker, delivering virtualised environments to its agile development team through software defined data centre tools.
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Government can reap benefits of IT commoditisation by embracing open source
Government departments can drive greater procurement competitiveness by looking to open source software in an increasingly ?commoditised? IT market, according to Tariq Rashid Lead Architect at the Home Office.
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iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending April 17
Starved for details, the iOSphere again turned to studying the dimension of third-party iPad 5 cases. That's right: products for a product that doesn't yet exist.
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Microsoft's Azure advances may not be enough to catch Amazon Web Services
Microsoft is adding to its Azure cloud service offerings and lowering prices in order to attract customers who may already have chosen another service provider, experts say, but it might not be enough.
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French space agency signs mission control IT services deal
The French CNES space agency has chosen a consortium led by Atos to develop its future space mission control centres.
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Survey: Microsoft Dynamics technical architects in line for 14% raises
IT pros with skills in Microsoft Dynamics project management and architecture can look forward to healthy raises this year, according to a survey of more than 10,000 respondents worldwide.
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SharePoint-Yammer integration will take time
CIOs and IT managers tracking the progress of the SharePoint-Yammer integration got more details about the road map this week, but the updates were a sobering reminder of the long road ahead as Microsoft works to mesh the two products.
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MWC: General Dynamics eyes government-level security on smartphones
General Dynamics is looking to bring US government-level security to consumer smartphones, allowing organisations to benefit from the type of strong data protection only available on expensive and clunky mobile terminals.
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Iceotope plumbs in immersively cooled servers for first customer
Iceotope's immersively cooled server racks are now in production, and the company has named its first customer. The University of Leeds, has been using an Iceotope server since December to run computational fluid dynamics models -- and to warm the radiators in one of its laboratories.
