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Worldwide IT market showing tentative signs of improvement

According to the newly published International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Black Book (Doc #250222), recent volatility will gradually give way to a more positive outlook for IT spending in the second half of 2014. With the U.S. and other mature economies mostly heading in the right direction and a significant commercial PC refresh cycle already underway, improvements in business confidence are set to drive a moderate infrastructure upgrade cycle over the next 12-18 months, while...

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The Perstorp Group has selected PROS big data applications to enhance its customer experience and sales effectiveness initiatives. The transaction closed in the second quarter of 2014.

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Shopzilla, a leading source for connecting buyers and sellers online, has deployed a Cloudera enterprise data hub to complement its existing Oracle enterprise data warehouse (EDW). In this hybrid Big Data environment, Shopzilla now has unlimited capacity to process and deliver new insights on millions of page views and ten billion ad requests daily, reaching over 100 million unique visitors and gaining valuable insights in hours or minutes instead of days.

OpenStack Summit heads to Europe

For the first time, the OpenStack® Summit is coming to Europe. The 10th OpenStack Summit will be held November 3-7, 2014 at the Palais de Congrès and the Le Meridien in Paris. This week-long event brings together users, developers, telco leaders and enterprise CIOs from across the industry to collaborate on the future of cloud computing.

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Brand-Rex has opened a new European Research & Development laboratory as part of an ongoing technology investment programme. The new facility will house the expanded research and development, design and test engineering teams.

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Company releases SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor 11.0 with application-aware network performance monitoring (AANPM); new enterprise-class deep packet inspection (DPI) technology enables network engineers to gain insight into the impact of network performance on over 1,200 applications.

85 per cent of organisations report they could not survive for longer than four weeks without mission critical IT systems

Six weeks since the TSB crisis and new research from business continuity and disaster recovery...

A warm embrace for waste heat?

The industry remains highly concerned about the enduring challenge of sourcing affordable and...

Logicalis completes IT overhaul for Birmingham City University

Logicalis has completed a comprehensive IT infrastructure overhaul for Birmingham City University....

Iceland positioned to become international datacenter hub

A new independent study conducted by BroadGroup reveals that Iceland is well positioned to become...

Hortonworks Data Platform 2.0 now available

Hortonworks has announced the general availability of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.0, the...

Comparing the costs of prefabricated versus traditional data centres

Prefabricated modular data centres offer many benefits including flexibility, predictability and...

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