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IT budgets set to increase according to a third (37%) of financial services organisations

Survey of UK & Ireland financial services sector reveals companies are set to spend as cost-cutting moves down the agenda and customers become priority.

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Serco has secured a new contract to continue providing information and communications technology (ICT) services to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), a decentralised agency of the European Union, located in London. Serco has been supporting the EMA since 2010 and this new four-year contract,...

New IBM SyNAPSE chip could open era of vast neural networks

New chip with brain-inspired non-von Neumann computer architecture has one million neurons and 256 million synapses.

South Korea’s improving economic conditions boost ICT expenditure

Due to the improving economy and enhanced financial prospects in South Korea, enterprises embrace ICT as a major tool for business improvement.

Worldwide IT market showing tentative signs of improvement

According to the newly published International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Black Book (Doc...

OpenStack Summit heads to Europe

For the first time, the OpenStack® Summit is coming to Europe. The 10th OpenStack Summit will...

New benchmarking studies reveal how users can get up to 60 per cent more performance from any existing infrastructure

Bare metal cloud provider Bigstep debunks a number of infrastructure myths, such as more CPUs equal...

Survey shows the role of IT is changing

KPMG LLP and ServiceNow have announced the results of a joint survey, shedding light on how IT...

Gartner says beware of the data lake fallacy

The growing hype surrounding data lakes is causing substantial confusion in the information...

ICT investments in Singapore and Malaysia are on the rise

Enterprises in Singapore and Malaysia will increase their ICT spendings in 2014, says new research...

IT budgets and hiring stabilise in 2014

Complexity expected to grow in 2015 as IT budgets rise while IT departments feel a hiring squeeze.

US$1 trillion to be spent on telecom and datacom over next five years

Market research firm Infonetics Research released data from its 2014 Telecom and Datacom Network...

SMEs ignore important role of IT Manager at their own risk, warns Node4

Independent research finds that over half of SMEs believe the IT manager will be dead by 2024.

New research showing major changes in the market to be presented at the Managed Services & Hosting Summit 2014

New sponsors announced including: Datto, NaviSite, Claranet, Modern Office, QLogic, Virtual...

IT has growing opportunity to become a strategic provider to the business

IT departments must free themselves from the pressures of tactical necessities before they can be...

IT modernisation - the dos and don'ts

Neil Fowler, SVP of Hybrid Cloud Engineering at Rocket Software, discusses the challenges and opportunities of IT modernisation, offering some valuable insights as to the essential ingredients of a successful...

DCS talks to Alex Blake, Strategic Development Director at Critical Facilities Solutions at DCT 2024

News and views from the recent DCA-organised Data Centre Transformation 2024 event.

AI cloud platform promises sustainable compute

Alex Sharp, Chief Projects Officer, Data Centres at Nscale, outlines the scale of the AI data centre challenge – with average rack consuming 130 kilowatts of power, and as chips become more sophisticated, so...

Data centres need to become critical stakeholders in the energy sector

Ciarán Forde, VP, Strategic Accounts & Alliances, Electrical Sector Sales - EMEA, Eaton, discusses the collaboration between Eaton and data centre design and build company CTS Nordics, which has recently seen...