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Serco secures new European Medicines Agency ICT contract

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Serco has secured a new contract to continue providing information and communications technology (ICT) services to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), a decentralised agency of the European Union, located in London. Serco has been supporting the EMA since 2010 and this new four-year contract, which started on 1 July 2014, is valued at €4.5m.

IT budgets set to increase according to a third (37%) of financial services organisations

Survey of UK & Ireland financial services sector reveals companies are set to spend as cost-cutting moves down the agenda and customers become priority.

South Korea’s improving economic conditions boost ICT expenditure

Due to the improving economy and enhanced financial prospects in South Korea, enterprises embrace ICT as a major tool for business improvement.

Worldwide IT market showing tentative signs of improvement

According to the newly published International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Black Book (Doc #250222), recent volatility will gradually give way to a more positive outlook for IT spending in the second half of 2014. With the U.S. and other mature economies mostly heading in the right direction and a significant commercial PC refresh cycle already underway, improvements in business confidence are set to drive a moderate infrastructure upgrade cycle over the next 12-18 months, while...

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Gridstore CEO George Symons to discuss the limitations of server-side storage and how technologies are adapting at the Flash Memory Summit this week.

OpenStack Summit heads to Europe

For the first time, the OpenStack® Summit is coming to Europe. The 10th OpenStack Summit will be held November 3-7, 2014 at the Palais de Congrès and the Le Meridien in Paris. This week-long event brings together users, developers, telco leaders and enterprise CIOs from across the industry to collaborate on the future of cloud computing.

Research highlights the dawn of the Super User

73% of organisations acknowledge IT-savvy workers but half lag in granting them resources to combat...

SvSAN delivers green IT benefits

In honour of Earth Day, StorMagic, a leading provider of enterprise-class software-defined storage...

DDN partners with HPE

DataDirect Networks has entered into a partnership with global high-performance computing (HPC)...

Five considerations when choosing Software-Defined Storage

With much industry attention on “software- defined” infrastructures, organizations...

Premier global investors infuse $58 million into SimpliVity

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Growth and DFJ Growth co-lead greatly oversubscribed C-Round,...

OCF deploys UK academia’s first IBM POWER9 systems

New systems supporting research into superfluid flows and Deep Learning at Queen Mary University...

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