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The healthcare industry continues to ride the digital wave to improve patient care and organisational efficiency while reducing costs. To do this, hospitals and health systems are relying on electronic health records (EHRs), the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT) more than ever. While these technologies are convenient, efficient, and enable a higher degree...

In what could be viewed as a test case, a court has found in favour of SAP UK in relation to an indirect access case against the drinks supplier Diageo GB. If you don’t understand what indirect access is, you are probably not alone and this case could probably give you a view on this!...

Flexible hours and remote work options increasingly are priorities for today’s small business employees. These findings comes from a joint study of 314 U.S. small business employees and 47 small business owners conducted by Justworks, an all-in-one benefits, HR, and payments platform for small business, and SquareFoot, a marketplace for commercial real estate. Among the...

Initial stocks of HP Inc’s OMEN X desktops and laptops are being been snapped up quickly as retailers respond to high levels of interest from consumers. Designed to provide gamers with the ultimate experience, the OMEN X systems feature sixth-generation Intel® Core™ i5/i7 processors with overclocking capability along with the latest graphics technology, including dual...

There are now 25 new packs and per processor packs available for VMWware’s Blue Medora True Visibility. Adding the Blue Medora True Visibility Suite to VMware vRealize Operations enables customers to unite cloud and datacentre management, bringing together information from VMware-enabled agent-less management packs such as Amazon, Cisco, Citrix, Microsoft, NetApp, Oracle, and SAP. Blue...

The Cloud? Well, Mark Hurd the co-CEO of Oracle Corp says so and he’s hoping this means Oracle’s. According to the Wall Street Journal, he expects that 80% of corporate datacentres to disappear by 2025 as cloud services become the primary way that IT services are consumed. “The movement to the cloud “isn’t just about...

End-of-Life / End-of-Support Management The management of software throughout the lifecycle is now critical, especially with the significant rise of cyber security breaches.  When products go end-of-life and more prominently end-of-support, the security patching is vastly reduced, sometimes completely reduced and therefore puts you at risk. This regular monthly article will advise you on the...

Until now, Citrix has offered two types of software Maintenance: – Citrix Software Maintenance – Citrix Subscription Advantage (SA) Citrix SA gave you upgrade rights to future versions, with no support and Software Maintenance provided support. A customer typically bought both or just Software Assurance. After March 2017, Software Assurance will no longer be available...

IN THE NEWS: HPE and Red Hat Join Forces to Give Customers Greater Choice for NFV Deployments Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Red Hat announced they are working together to accelerate the deployment of network functions virtualisation (NFV) solutions based on fully open, production-ready, standards-based infrastructures. Consistent with HPE’s multi-cloud, multi-stack strategy and broader open...

INTRODUCTION Cloud services play a critical role in helping organisations accomplish their digital transformations. A deeper partnership with Microsoft is a great option for businesses looking to either simply lower the cost of data storage by moving it to the cloud, or in a more sophisticated use case—migrating on-premises Exchange to Exchange online in Office...

The office 2007 desktop suite and related server products leave the extended support phase of their life cycle in 2017.  Organisations that still have these software products deployed on-premise should migrate to later versions of the products, still within mainstream support or risk encountering incompatibility issues and security risks. The Office 2007 suite and the...

This Global Healthcare Threat Telemetry report examines the threat landscape of the global healthcare industry in Q4 2016. It is based on threat telemetry obtained by FortiGuard Labs’ research group from sensors located at 454 healthcare companies located in 50 countries around the globe. FortiGuard Labs, and its more than 200 researchers and analysts located...