With IT budgets set to remain flat, CIOs are thinking hard about what to spend their cash on -- and RFID, SOA and VoIP are set to top the list.
Technologies that allow more flexibility are increasingly important to IT managers, according to research.
Alcatel-Lucent on Monday unveiled its latest foray into security with an all-in-one network appliance designed to handle authorisation tasks for Web services, as well as acceleration and auditing.
Farmers' Trading Company (FTC), the New Zealand department store chain, has virtually retired its old IBM mainframe after a three year system upgrade and consolidation.
Oracle plans to acquire middleware maker BEA Systems for US$8.5 billion in cash, the company announced on Wednesday. The move means Oracle will leapfrog IBM as the number one middleware player.
The current buzz around virtualisation may sound familiar to anyone with experience of high-end computing's origins " so what makes today's scenario so different?
IBM's head of virtualisation is on a mission to spread the word about a technology that is reshaping the structure of IT around the world.
The US sub-prime mortgage lending crisis could lead to economic losses totaling between US$150bn and US$400bn, according to The Wall Street Journal. While this dwarfs the effect of previous disasters such as the dot com bust, analysts remain optimistic that its effect on IT budgets will be flat, rather than disastrous.
John Turato, Vice President of Technology for Avis-Budget Group talks about managing technical operations for a rental fleet of more than 400,000 vehicles worldwide. Turato also discusses transformation at the rental car operator, and his other role, Chairman of the OpenTravel Alliance, a group of companies developing web 2.0 standards for the online travel industry.
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