Critical infrastructures: Cyber attacks pose a threat to basic services 29. May 2015 by Ralph Novak The suspicion has been confirmed: Public services and providers are increasingly a target for Internet hackers.
IT support: Service desk more effective with remote access 29. May 2015 by Ralph Novak In some medium-sized companies, the number of support tickets is on the rise, while other companies are recording a fall in the number of faults. Service desk expertise and easy-to-use devices and applications are what make the difference here.
Infrastructure as a service: For Red Hat, OpenStack is the future 29. May 2015 by Ralph Novak More and more medium-sized companies are using OpenStack, or plan to do so in the near future. The run on the open platform is so great that many fear they won’t be able to find enough qualified people for it.
Digital change: Partner platform makes transformation projects manageable 21. May 2015 by Ralph Novak Oracle and Accenture have jointly launched the Accenture Oracle Business Group, which should allow a faster implementation of integrated cloud solutions than ever before.
Project Jigsaw: The timetable for Java 9 rolled out 21. May 2015 by Ralph Novak Mark Reinhold, head of development of the Java Standard Edition at Oracle, has unveiled the schedule for the completion and release of Java 9 (OpenJDK). Work on the programming language features should be completed by December 10, 2015, after which no new features should be added.
Data centres: Most power outages happen in the summer 21. May 2015 by Ralph Novak In 2014, 711 power outages totalling 61,259 minutes were recorded in the data centres of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. These figures have been compiled from intelligence agency reports, print media, and Web pages by Eaton.
Internet Exchange: Istanbul gets its own network node 21. May 2015 by Ralph Novak The DE-CIX plans to open three more nodes in countries around the Mediterranean, one of them in the Turkish capital of Istanbul, in the third quarter of 2015.
IT security: Theft of devices is the easiest cyberattack 21. May 2015 by Ralph Novak Espionage, sabotage, and theft are rampant: A good half (51%) of all German companies have already fallen victim over the past two years.
Application infrastructure and middleware: Revenue from AIM software up 8.8% 7. May 2015 by Ralph Novak According to figures from market research institute Gartner, the global application infrastructure and middleware software (AIM software) market grew by 8.8% to US$ 23.8 billion in 2014 compared with the previous year. This market has therefore performed better than the overall software market, which, in the same period, recorded growth of just 5.7% to a …
Cloud computing: A third of IT infrastructure spending is on the cloud 7. May 2015 by Ralph Novak While in 2013, around US$ 22.3 billion were spent on servers, disk storage and Ethernet switches, in 2014, this figure was US$ 26.4 billion, up 18.7%. Expenditure on private clouds was just below US$ 10 billion, representing an increase of 20.7%, while companies spent US$ 16.5 billion on public cloud infrastructures, 17.5% more than in …
