Stories by Leo King

Four in 10 servers are virtual, snapshot study shows

Nearly four in every 10 servers are not physical, according to a virtualisation study that has examined large businesses in the UK, US, France and Germany.

By Leo King | 20 July, 2011 00:11

Tags: hardware systems, IT Business, Microsoft, servers, VMware

IDC: Technology consumerisation is overhauling the IT role

The consumerisation of technology in the workplace, whereby users bring in their own devices and even sign up to their own choice of cloud systems, is drastically changing the role of the IT department.

By Leo King | 13 June, 2011 18:15

Tags: careers, IDC, IT Business, it management, Quire

IT security regulations ‘totally out of date’

The legal framework in which businesses operate their IT and data security is "totally outdated" and dates "from the 20th Century, while attempting to tackle problems in the 21st", according to a panel of experts.

By Leo King | 07 June, 2011 03:10

Tags: applications, careers, IT Business, it management, outsourcing, security, services, software

Veeam adds backup support for Microsoft Hyper-V

Virtual infrastructure management firm Veeam Software has added Backup & Replication support for Microsoft Hyper-V, in an important move in the virtualisation market.

By Leo King | 17 May, 2011 00:54

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, data centre, hardware systems, Microsoft, virtualisation, Virtualization, VMware

Canonical services boss quits, in another departure from Ubuntu firm

Neil Levine, Canonical's VP of services, has quit the company and joined a small cloud systems management business.

By Leo King | 10 May, 2011 21:04

Tags: Canon, canonical, careers, it management, LinkedIn, open source, software

NHS agreement with CSC ‘weeks away’

An agreement between the NHS and CSC is due to be signed in the "next few weeks", according to the supplier.

By Leo King | 05 May, 2011 21:13

Tags: applications, IT Business, outsourcing, public sector, services, software

Seven in 10 businesses worried about managing cloud

Seventy one percent of businesses are concerned about managing cloud computing, according to a survey.

By Leo King | 04 April, 2011 17:14

Tags: applications, cloud computing, internet, IT Business, software

London Stock Exchange: What really went wrong

The London Stock Exchange has made a U-turn on the system requirements placed on data vendors such as Thomson Reuters, Interactive Data and Bloomberg, after three weeks of problems since the launch of its new trading platform.

By Leo King | 05 March, 2011 05:41

Tags: applications, careers, finance, industry verticals, infrastructure, IT Business, networking, open source, outsourcing, Thomson Reuters

Vodafone slams Egypt president Mubarak over text ‘hijacking’

Vodafone has accused Egypts embattled president, Hosni Mubarak, of effectively hijacking its network to send propaganda.

By Leo King | 04 February, 2011 02:11

Tags: government, mobile, Telecommunication, Vodafone

Official report: BP oil spill IT systems lacked key alarms

BP's monitoring IT systems on the failed Deepwater Horizon oil rig relied too heavily on engineers following complex data for long periods of time, instead of providing automatic warning alerts.

By Leo King | 07 January, 2011 04:14

Tags: BP, it management

SAP in another exec reshuffle

Three SAP vice presidents and a head of services are leaving the company, as part of a major management reshuffle, it is understood.

By Leo King | 22 December, 2010 02:25

Tags: business issues, business objects, personnel, sap

SAP-Oracle feud could hurt business, customers say

Prolonging the battle between SAP and Oracle, following last week's £820 million damages award, could hurt enterprise software users and change the support landscape.

By Leo King | 01 December, 2010 01:33

Tags: applications, intellectual property, legal, oracle, sap, software, TomorrowNow

BP ignored safety software advice, investigators find

BP ignored the advice of safety critical software in an attempt to save time before the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to a presentation slide prepared by US investigators.

By Leo King | 27 November, 2010 04:31

Tags: BP, energy, industry verticals, software, The New York Times

Forrester: Sourcing departments fear control loss with SaaS

Businesses' traditional sourcing departments fear a loss of control of software-as-a-service systems, Forrester analysts have warned ahead of a major conference next week.

By Leo King | 10 November, 2010 02:08

Tags: Application services, Forrester Research, services

Traders concerned over network capacity of Linux system

The London Stock Exchange has formally acknowledged it needs to do more to scale its IT infrastructure before launching a new Linux platform on its cash markets.

By Leo King | 09 November, 2010 01:52

Tags: Linux, non-Windows, operating systems

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