Fujitsu buys cloud service provider

Fujitsu has finalised a contract with RunMyProcess (RMP), a French cloud service provider, to acquire all shares of RMP. With this acquisition, Fujitsu will add integration platform as a service (iPaaS) to its cloud offerings to bolster its cloud portfolio as it...

SA firms not sure about data recovery

Data volumes are growing exponentially as the world digitises, and businesses continue to unlock the value held in their information. Yet there is ample evidence that companies are not taking adequate measures to protect their data. According to research conducted by...

Help in quantifying green initiatives

Infrastructure and operations (I&O) activity typically consumes 60% to 65% of IT budgets in organisations across industry sectors. As a result, the impact of green and sustainable initiatives will be greatest in this area.  Bettina Tratz-Ryan, research...

Social mobile ad spend to boom

US mobile ad spending on social networks will reach $4,5-billion by 2018, according to a new Forecast View from Forrester Research.  “Forrester expects the spending on mobile ads to grow nearly twice as fast as the spending on desktop ads on social networks. We...

Lync central to Obama’s re-election

The recent “Obama for America” campaign used Microsoft Lync as the communications platform for hundreds of campaign staff in its Chicago headquarters and in some states for the 2012 elections.  The campaign needed to upgrade from a private branch exchange (PBX) system...