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SAP offers mobile device management on Amazon cloud

SAP's Afaria mobile device management tool is now available on Amazon Web Services' cloud, offered as a way to make it easier to start using the platform, SAP said at the Sapphire conference on Monday.
Arup outsources data centre to Vtesse, to cope with growth

More cost-effective than refurbishing existing space
Hitachi launches all-in-one data centre service

Hitachi has launched a new data centre business, the "GNEXT Facility & IT Management Service", that includes everything from planning and construction to IT support.
RIM chief wanted shift from BlackBerry to data services

RIM?s former co-CEO Jim Balsillie wanted to shift the company from its dependence on BlackBerry hardware in favour of a future built as much on outsourcing data services, unnamed sources have told Reuters.
Jaguar Land Rover deploys Colt modular data centre

Jaguar Land Rover is taking delivery of a pre-built modular data cantre for its Solihull advanced manufacturing plant in the West Midlands.
Porticor's new key technology simplifies data encryption in the cloud

Many companies cite data security as their top inhibitor to cloud adoption. Data encryption is a logical security measure, but key management can be tricky. Now there's a new service that simplifies key management while ensuring that no one but the data owner ever knows the master key.
Avaya releases communications outsourcing managment tool

Avaya is looking to take over the management of an enterprise's entire communications platform with its new Communications Outsourcing Solutions offering.
British IT companies attracting strong private equity investment

Technology, media and telecoms (TMT) firms are among the fastest growing private equity-backed businesses in the UK, with 26 sector companies featuring in the latest Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track 100.
Logica says cloud is 'railway of 21st century'

Logica has described cloud computing as ?the railway of the 21st century?, claiming that the community clouds it is building with Microsoft will help to promote sharing and collaboration among like-minded companies.
FBI chooses Accenture to modernise its HR systems

IT outsourcing company Accenture has been awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement to install an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, to support the FBI?s Human Resources Information System (HRIS).

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Can you rescue your data back from the cloud?

Outsourcing contracts typically include termination and transition assistance provisions that outline the IT service provider's responsibilities regarding returning data. IT buyers are surprised to find out that their cloud computing contracts contain no such provisions.
The 10 most powerful IaaS companies in the world

We assembled this list with help from analysts at Cloud Technology Partners, Current Analysis, Enterprise Strategy Group, Gartner, IDC and Neovise who watch the public cloud Infrastructure as a Service scene very closely. The services in this list include Amazon Web Services, Bluelock, CSC, GoGrid, IBM, OpenStack, Backspace, Savvis, Terremark and VMWare.
The benefits of building an Enterprise Application Store

Creating the mobile enterprise is one of the biggest challenges facing IT organisations. The benefits of supporting mobile users and building mobile applications are numerous and include increased productivity and organisation flexibility.
Cobol on the mainframe: Does it have a future?

David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs -- 343 million lines of code -- that run core banking and other operations. But many of the people who built that code base, some of which goes back to the early days of Cobol in the 1960s, will be retiring over the next several years.
Old rules no longer apply in the fight for IT spending

The lines which once marked the boundaries between providers of software, hardware, services and business advice have all but disappeared.
Gartner shares nine IT infrastructure cost saving tips

Trying to make savings in a lean data centre environment might seem like a hard task but there are a number of steps IT managers can take to reduce spend further, says analyst firm Gartner.
How to protect intellectual property in the cloud

IT professionals know that handing data over to a third-party is always risky, but cloud computing creates unique concerns for IP. Here are nine tips to protect critical corporate data wherever it goes
Why social tech's real value is inside the business

Although companies have been urged to adopt "Web 2.0" and social technologies for years now, the truth is that relatively few have done so internally in any serious way - and use inside the business is where the most value can be gained.
The solution to legacy application woes

Legacy applications are one of the most difficult issues to face within IT. A rip-and-replace approach is expensive and thus difficult to justify; plus, it tends to interrupt operations. Meanwhile, the ageing software lingers in accounting's ledgers, overstays its welcome in sales and causes poor network performance throughout the organisation.
Colocation: The answer to your data centre woes?

Brian Burch knew the moment had arrived. Two of his data centre's key services, availability and business continuity, needed fast and dramatic improvement. Design and location limitations meant that his company's existing data centre couldn't be upgraded to the levels necessary to provide the required function and performance gains.

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