Check Point, VMware secure private cloud

Check Point Software Technologies and VMware have announced a collaboration in which they will automate and simplify the provisioning and deployment of network security in private clouds. Check Point will make its security protection solutions interoperable with...

Six steps to becoming a social business

With businesses today diving into the social space at a dizzying pace, Oracle Social Cloud and Altimeter Group have released a new e-book that details how organisations can evolve across an increasingly dynamic and competitive landscape and become socially enabled...

CommVault protects cloud data

CommVault’s Simpana 10 software platform has become the data protection platform of choice for more than 200 certified service providers, which provides cloud solutions to millions of client systems worldwide and protects hundreds of petabytes of data. The company...

Cloudgate ends 40-year reign of desktop PC

Desktop computers have become a drain on the IT resources of organisations. “An IT department has a primary function: to deliver applications to end-users. Everything else – security, uptime, backups, support and maintenance – are important, but secondary...

Orange joins EU ERP initiative

Orange Business Services has joined a European Union-sponsored initiative to play a key role in the development of new business intelligence and IT standards that are set to improve management tools used by the shipping industry. A key goal is to help shipping...

vCloud Hybrid Service available in Europe

VMware, the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, has announced the general availability of VMware vCloud Hybrid Service in Europe from a data centre in Slough, UK. Complementing VMware’s existing US data centres, the Slough data centre provides...