The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is relying on Atos, Europe's largest IT services firm, to make sure that everything at the 2012 Summer Olympics goes off without a hitch - at least...»

Amazon S3, the storage offering from cloud industry giant Amazon Web Services, continues to show staggering growth with the announcement that at the end of the first quarter of 2012, it was storing no...»

IT consultation Accenture has been chosen by the SAS Institute to help deploy their Risk Management for Insurance initiative in a client environment. The company in question is Folksam, a Swedish insurance provider that contracted SAS for the...»

Analytics startup Kontagent is breaking the mold with the availability of kSuite DataMine, a SaaS offering that enables analysts to use Hive-powered, SQL-like queries to get data out of a Hadoop deployment. It's meant to give insights...»

Supporting converged infrastructure environments – which aim to deliver server, storage and networking technology in a single, streamlined package – requires IT pros to expand their skill sets beyond just one of the three domains. It makes sense then...»

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, a subsidiary of the India-based Tata Group, has gotten itself in a bit trouble now that two former employees are launching a class-action suit against the company. Their motion was finally approved by...»

SAP has an estimated 54,000 employees. About 40,000 of those employees carry iPads, iPhones, smart phones and tablets. That equaties to about 80% of its workforce as mobile ready. "We are the second largest user of...»

Call it fate, call it synchronicity, call it well-planned, but whatever you do, don't call it a comeback. Just as Citrix gave its CloudStack platform to Apache and left the still-fledgling OpenStack Foundation in...»

NTT Data has decided it best not to go it alone when it comes to Big Data. Smart move. The Japanese systems integrator and services firm has inked a reseller and OEM partnership with MarkLogic to extend...»

Rumors have surfaced again that someone is trying to buy Rackspace. This time, according to The VAR Guy, rumors have been floating around that VMware is considering purchasing Rackspace to neutralize the perceived threat that the...»