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EU launches initiative to increase use of renewable energy in data centres

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RenewIT, a three-year EU project to investigate how datacentres can be designed and operated to make more efficient use of renewable energy, is now underway.

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Nearly 80 percent of users believe that SharePoint needs help to deliver on its ability to make content more findable and accessible, recent research finds. Jeremy Bentley, chief executive of Smartlogic, discusses the gaps in SharePoint's information management and how integrating ‘content intelligence’ applications with SharePoint can help enterprises overcome these challenges.

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Spiceworks has announced the results of a new survey analyzing the perceptions small-to-medium enterprise (SME) and large organization IT professionals have of the United Kingdom (UK) economy, government policies and the perceived IT skills gap. Despite new technology initiatives and policies aimed at driving growth, most IT professionals feel the UK remains in a recession. However, IT professionals, particularly those in large organizations, are optimistic that revenue, IT budgets, and hiring...

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The improving economy heralds a heartening year for UK investment in IT, according to a new survey from American Express Company (NYSE:AXP) and CFO Research, Supporting Growth with New Technologies. Results of the survey show that more than three quarters (76%) of those surveyed plan to increase investments in technology in 2014, with 41% of CFOs planning to increase their spending on IT by 10% or more in 2014.

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Vello Systems hasannounced two recent additions to the senior management team: Alan McKee, VP Engineering and Jeff Paine, VP Marketing. As VP of Engineering, Mr McKee will help drive Vello’s pioneering leadership in providing leading-edge enterprise networks that are open, application aware and software-defined.

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Social media is already a must for CRM vendors and enterprises alike. Ovum’s Social Media Outsourcing 2014 Trends to Watch report predicts that both ends of the social media maturity spectrum will drive new opportunities; outsourcers will look to take social media agents out of silos and train them with additional skills, or recruit multi-channel agents; and privacy concerns and perceptions exacerbated by leaked intelligence information will result in outsourcers helping enterprises to...

BMC re-imagines IT operations management

BMC is introducing TrueSight Operations Management 10 to provide holistic IT insight that empowers...

Light into Money white paper focuses on fibre optics future

Panduit has published a new white paper; “Light into Money – The Future of Fibre Optics in the...

White paper focuses on cyber security issues affecting data centre remote monitoring

Digital remote monitoring services deliver real-time monitoring and data analytics support via the...

DNB appoints Green Mountain

Norway’s biggest bank is to secure all its mission critical intelligence in high security...

Softcat cements HP expertise with Platinum Partner status

Softcat has achieved HP’s highest possible accreditation through an on-going concerted...

Royal Mail, AOL and PayPal lead all-star line-up at Big Data World Congress

Top IT giants from Royal Mail, AOL and Paypal will converge in London to present their views at the...

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EU launches initiative to increase use of renewable energy in data centres

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