IBM forms Watson Group

IBM will establish the IBM Watson Group, a new business unit dedicated to the development and commercialization of cloud-delivered cognitive innovations. The move signifies a strategic shift by IBM to accelerate into the marketplace a new class of software, services and apps that think, improve by learning, and discover answers and insights to complex questions from massive amounts of Big Data.

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Hays chooses Redcentric for cloud-based WAN and LAN managed service

Leading global recruitment group, Hays has signed a multi-year contract with Redcentric, an end-to -end managed service provider, to provide network services, linking the recruitment company’s large and medium-sized offices. Following a competitive seven-way tender, Redcentric was awarded the contract to support the majority of Hay’s UK offices.

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Talend shares top technology predictions for 2014

Talend has announced its top technology predictions for 2014. Executives at the company believe the following trends will come to fruition as big data efforts continue to develop and as cloud-based big data initiatives grow over the course of the new year.

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ZTE to help China Mobile deploy VoLTE service

ZTE’s eSRVCC and IMS solutions ensure seamless handoff of calls between 4G and 2G networks, taking VoLTE closer to a wider national rollout. ZTE Corporation is to help China Mobile deploy voice over LTE (VoLTE) services on the operator’s commercial TD-LTE network in Guangzhou, China, an important step towards a wider nationwide rollout.

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Hitachi Data Systems names Richard Gadd as Managing Director for UK & Ireland

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has announced the appointment of Richard Gadd to managing director, UK and Ireland, with immediate effect. Richard will take over responsibilities from acting Country Manager, Tony Reid. Richard joins Hitachi Data Systems from EMC where he was a senior director for EMEA Global Accounts. Prior to EMC, Richard held senior leadership roles at Computacenter, Morse and Xerox.

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49% of UK IT decision makers believe that over half the apps in their business are unnecessary

UK businesses should get their house in order to take advantage of improving economic conditions, claims Adrian Foxall, CEO of Camwood.

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To leverage the flexibility of the cloud with a new and different approach, NetApp introduces...
Helping businesses address ‘unsustainable’ cost of data storage and management.
Almost one in four business still struggle to determine the cost of IT downtime, reports new...
Nutanix has formed a partnership with Trust Systems and Crown Hosting Data Centres to deliver...
Druva has introduced what it says is the industry’s first intelligent, storage tiering system,...
StorCentric has added Manju Agarwal to its Board as an advisor. Agarwal brings over 30 years of...
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