IBM takes Cobol to the cloud

IBM has announced software to help organisations extend business applications running on System z mainframes to Web, cloud and mobile environments.  The software’s performance improvements will enable companies to significantly reduce operating costs while...

Windows 8 may not be enterprise standard

With Windows XP’s end-of-life date of 8 April 2014 rapidly approaching, most IT shops are still too focussed on migrating to Windows 7 to bother with Windows 8 anytime soon, if at all.  To be reasonably considered an enterprise standard, approximately half of...

Pinnacle buys Modrac, Precision ICT

Pinnacle Holdings has acquired Precision ICT and Modrac from Craig Luck with effect from 1 June 2013, subject to the completion of a due diligence review. Precision ICT is an engineering company focused on the design, manufacture and assembly of electronic enclosures...