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Atos enters final testing phase for London 2012 Olympic Games

Outsourcer Atos is about to commence its final test phase for its systems supporting the 2012 Olympic Games in London, before systems go live on 1 June.
Yahoo heads for fourth CEO since 2009 as Scott Thompson goes

Embattled Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has left the company, Yahoo announced Sunday, after more than a week of controversy over questions about embellishments to his CV.
Cisco to acquire real-time network analytics firm Truviso

Cisco plans to acquire network analytics company Truviso for an undisclosed amount, in an effort to help users hone operational efficiencies.
UK government backs new 'smart cities' consortium

Philips, McLaren Electronics and Hitachi Consulting are among a group of companies that have agreed to work together to develop technologies that will enable the construction of smart cities in the UK.
IBM launches new crime-fighting Big Data analytics security package

IBM today came out with its first iteration of the analytics software package that it expects will help law enforcement, government agencies and private businesses wade through the massive amounts of data they collect to help them predict, disrupt and prevent criminal, terrorist and fraudulent activities.
Aspera helps Japanese genetics institute ease file transfer

The Japanese National Institute of Genetics (NIG) has chosen to deploy Aspera?s web-based Connect Server software to support its research in the field of life sciences.
Central London data centre from Volta to serve Tech City

A new co-location data centre will be opening in central London next year, aiming to cater to the ultra-low latency needs of businesses in the City and around ?Silicon Roundabout?.
IBM posts poor hardware sales in last quarter

IBM hardware sales over the past three months have been poor according to the latest quarterly results, although Big Blue has continued to excel at selling software and systems.
IBM targets comprehensive mobile app development support

IBM is trying to replicate the success it's had with WebSphere in the mobile market.
IBM releases upgraded DB2 version 10 and Hadoop-supporting InfoSphere

Sensing a change in the way customers store and analyse data, IBM has updated its flagship DB2 relational database management software to handle a wider range of data processing duties.

Latest Features

Are text messages now becoming irrelevant?

The first SMS-capable mobile phones were approved for sale in Europe 20 years ago this month. By any measure, text messages have become a huge success, at least for the telephone companies, with more than 6 trillion text messages sent worldwide in 2010, generating more than $110 billion in revenue. But the future may not be anywhere near as bright because of increasing use of "free" Internet-based services such as Facebook, Apple's iMessage and WhatsApp.com.
Next-generation server virtualisation

Virtualisation has swept the enterprise and its success has driven new innovation in hardware, software and security practices, as IT organisations demand greater performance, manageability and security from their virtualised infrastructure.
Virtualisation performance management - Myths and realities

Performance management has become the key element in maximising any virtualisation initiative, but many myths have emerged that, left unchecked, can stall an entire virtualisation initiative. Here are the biggest myths and the corresponding realities to enable IT to chart an informed path forward and successfully scale deployments.
Bring your own device - Effective policies and practice in a BYOD environment

Bring your own device (BYOD) is now ubiquitous among enterprises. For IT leaders this has meant developing and maintaining effective policies and practices to keep the organisation secure and efficient, while managing a proliferation of devices.
OpenStack may be gaining support from IBM but Iaas is still making slow headway

When it comes to Infrastructure as a Service - renting on-demand compute, storage and network resources that live in a multi-tenant virtualised public cloud - midsized businesses are jumping in with both feet. But large enterprises with their own well-established data centres are still dipping their toes in the water.
Will DevOps be as big as Cloud and Big Data?

The notion of DevOps could become as prevalent as Cloud Computing or Big Data, according to IT process automation company UC4 Software, with IT departments striving to stay agile while still developing and releasing stable code.
Designing and building the infrastructure for the next generation IT

Enterprises and their customers increasingly expect business services to be available and responsive at any time, requiring the underlying technology infrastructure to be ?always on- always available?. The themes currently driving technology trends for 2012 share this common goal of highly available and pervasive computing.
Efficiency and technology consolidation top the 2012 agenda

This year will bring significant challenges to IT managers as enterprises face an increasingly tough economic climate. Several strong trends are emerging.
Six simple steps to adopting consumerisation

Most businesses are accepting, even embracing, consumer technology. What do they know that you don't?
Should you care about Pinterest?

Some call it (p)insanity. Others are straight up addicted to pinning. And still, there are those who just don't get it.

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While there are many forms of video collaboration and many more will emerge, the key in any enterprise video architecture is to allow innovation to flourish and not to limit choice. The enterprise should embrace endpoint devices and their video applications.
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