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Article | 5/08/2011 China's IT outsourcing firms aim to move up the value chain
Microsoft, IBM and other multinational companies have long been customers for VanceInfo, one of China's largest IT outsourcing firms. With more than 1...
Article | 5/08/2011 Easing the juggling act with client virtualization
In IT's never-ending search for efficiency improvements, client virtualization and its subsets -- presentation, application and desktop virtualization...
Article | 5/08/2011 Former Microsoft exec, Obama donor named new U.S. CIO
WASHINGTON - Longtime Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel is set to become the nation's second federal CIO, replacing outgoing federal CIO Vivek Kund...
Article | 4/08/2011 Does the Mac have an edge against state-sponsored hacking?
When hackers broke into Google's computer network nearly two years ago, their first step was to take over Microsoft Windows machines running in the co...
Article | 30/07/2011 SAP project issues hurt Ingram Micro profits again
Ingram Micro's profits were dragged down for the second quarter in a row due to problems with an SAP implementation in Australia, the technology distr...
Article | 29/07/2011 IBM boosts services arm with research help
Hoping to boost its services offerings, IBM is assigning 200 of its researchers to the help the company manage its customers' business systems with mo...
Article | 13/07/2011 CIOs see promise in public Cloud storage
Three quarters of companies are either currently using or plan to use public cloud storage offerings. What's more, all organizations with more than 50...
Article | 12/07/2011 IDC: IT hasn't grasped consumerization trend
More people are bringing their own tablets and smartphones to work but IT departments have been slow to support them and may not even be aware of the ...
Article | 9/07/2011 Job experts: Fresh skills key for a return to IT
With no definitive measure of how IT hiring fared during the recession, job experts hold conflicting opinions about the residual effects on that secto...
Article | 6/07/2011 Compuware buys dynaTrace for US$256 million
Compuware announced Wednesday it has purchased application performance monitoring vendor dynaTrace for US$256 million in cash, a move that builds upon...
Article | 1/07/2011 How Japan's data centers survived the earthquake
Smart construction and good planning allowed Japan's data centers to escape virtually unharmed from the massive earthquake that rocked the country in ...
Article | 29/06/2011 In another shake-up, Twitter co-founder Stone steps away
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is stepping away from his day-to-day duties at Twitter.
Article | 29/06/2011 Office 365 arrives to flat IT spending
Microsoft is pitching its cloud-based Office 365 as a less costly alternative for IT budgets, assuming IT managers can find money in their budgets for...
Article | 27/06/2011 They're back! Data breach notification bills resurface
After several large breaches -- including the <a href="http://blogs.csoonline.com/1457/epsilon_hack_notification_letters">Epsilon</a>, <a href="http:/...
Article | 28/06/2011 Oracle Fusion Applications pricing revealed
Oracle has quietly revealed pricing information for its long-awaited Fusion Applications, suggesting the software may now be generally available or wi...