The world of smartphones, tablets and mobile devices is evolving rapidly and is changing the way CIOs think about topics ranging from telework to disaster recovery to information security. CIO concerns include include: Mobile Device Security: Before you can make your users more productive with mobile devices, you need to make certain that [...]
Posted on November 5th, 2011 by admin
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6fusion, a provider of cloud infrastructure management software and services, this morning announced that it has raised $7 million in a Series B round of funding led by Grotech Ventures. Previous backer Intersouth Partners also participated in the round. The company provides an end-to-end cloud management platform that enables global workload distribution by turning companies’ [...]
Posted on August 23rd, 2011 by admin
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CenturyLink this morning announced that it will acquire all outstanding shares of Savvis common stock in a cash and stock merger valued at $40 per share, or a total of approximately $2.5 billion, plus net debt of approximately $0.7 billion which will be assumed or refinanced at close. CenturyLink is the third largest telecommunications company [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2011 by admin
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Enabling business continuity, reliable disaster recovery, and ongoing access to applications and data for employees, partners, and customers is critical. Failed applications can lead to lost data and lengthy recovery times, and can negatively affect the company’s reputation\ and profitability. While most companies employ some backup processes, they are difficult to test. Planned downtime for [...]
Posted on March 16th, 2011 by admin
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Todays IT infrastructure is complex. The number of IT assets in the infrastructure that an enterprise level organisation must manage can be overwhelming – different platforms, devices, servers, applications databases and more. And the sheer volume of activity that occurs in this infrastructure is almost too large to imagine. Many organisations have technology located in [...]
Posted on August 8th, 2010 by admin
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Complex security policies can be difficult for employees to follow, it is unrealistic to leave security in the hands of mobile employees. An effective enterprise security plan should provide for simple, automated, scalable, and comprehensive ways to protect IT investments and maintain worker productivity. Organizations must approach security from a comprehensive perspective that ranges from [...]
Posted on July 31st, 2010 by admin
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3scale Networks, a Barcelona, Spain-based provider of API management solutions, has raised $800.000 in equity and loans from Spanish VC Inveready Seed Capital and public entities like NEOTEC and CIDEM / ACC1Ó. 3scale essentially provides a SaaS API management infrastructure solution that enabled Internet-based companies to secure, control, monitor and generate revenue from the distribution [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2010 by admin
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Many of the largest IT budget problems can be traced back to five big money drains: Storage expansion – IT departments are already stretching their budgets for storage, and the demand is only going to grow. The volume of data an average business collects and stores actually doubles every 18-24 months. System complexity – a [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
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NASA has issued a final request for proposal for a menu of information technology services such as e-mail, security management, instant messaging and mobile communications. Estimates have pegged the work as worth $2.5 billion. The project, Agency Consolidated End User Services (ACES), is designed to consolidate services across NASA into one agencywide solution. The requirements [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
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VA infrastructure is changed and projects are cut. To improve management of ongoing projects, as of Feb. 15 every IT project in the department, and about 250 IT projects overall, are being managed through the Program Management Accountability System introduced in July. The system requires IT projects to deliver new functionality within six months and [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
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