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February 21, 2012 |  |
 NIE, Northern Ireland’s Electricity Network Company has launched a brand new website and for the very first time a mobile site for 2012. The sites, designed, developed and hosted by Tibus were constructed with the end user very much at the forefront of the project. NIE wanted to ensure their new site was customer focused. |
February 20, 2012 |  |
 The leading Belfast based IT and Communications company, Leaf, has been appointed as Apple Network Consultants for Northern Ireland. Leaf is now registered and certified as part of the UK Apple Consultants Network and will work in conjunction with the Apple store, Channel and other Resellers to assist its Northern Ireland business customers.
The Apple Consultants Network features a community of professional service providers and consultants that specialise in Apple and third-party solutions. |
February 08, 2012 | |
 Technology is only part of the reason why the cloud is taking off. Ed Hoppitt, global principal architect in BT, described the circumstances that have made it happen as a “perfect storm”, with the recession playing a big part.
“If the global economic crisis had not happened around the same time that virtualisation took off, I don’t think we would see the landscape that we see today” he said, singling out VMware’s pioneering virtual machines as a major factor. |
February 07, 2012 | |
 "Without a doubt, Cloud is very much here to stay. It is no longer being viewed as new and many companies, who were previously reluctant to consider Cloud, are now looking closely at what Cloud Managed Services can do for them.” says Steven Goldblatt, managing director of Leaf, one of Ireland’s leading Cloud suppliers, “Some have started to dip their toe in the water with services such as placing their email exchange in the Cloud, whilst others have simply jumped right in. |
February 06, 2012 |  |
 Belfast IT Company, CMI has today announced plans to launch its own cloud offering to the market place. The new cloud offering will work alongside the companies traditional IT services to provide businesses with a choice of on premise, in cloud or Hybrid IT Infrastructure.
Speaking on the launch of the new offering, CMI Managing Director Ken Roulston says:
“We have been looking at the impact of Cloud Computing on the provision of IT infrastructure for our customers for quite some time. |
February 06, 2012 | |
 We’re delighted to announce we have launched not one but two of our own websites – www.tibushost.com and www. |
February 03, 2012 |  |
 Belfast-based ICT solutions provider, Novosco Ltd has launched its latest range of cloud-based services and solutions to the UK market, with support from Invest Northern Ireland. Pictured (L-R) are Patrick McAliskey, Novosco’s Managing Director and Stephen Wightman of Invest NI.
Belfast-based ICT solutions provider, Novosco Ltd has launched its latest range of cloud-based services and solutions to the UK market, with support from Invest Northern Ireland. |
January 18, 2012 |  |
 A UK Company was formed in 2003 to develop Policy Management Software for customer’s needs that would later become described as Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC). This company was called Metacompliance and its vision of making compliance easier for organisations in the Public and Private sector was to prove attractive to the market as Legislative and Regulatory requirements began to become increasingly part of everyday norms.
The company’s focus on providing its clients with cost effective “commercial off the shelf” compliance software has been recently validated by the findings in a report published by Boston- based Industry Analysts, Hypatia Research. |
January 17, 2012 |  |
Ericom Software, a global leader in application access and desktop virtualization solutions, has announced AccessNow version 1.3. The new release features an enterprise-level Secure Gateway, expanded end-user device support, and more features and capabilities supporting the acceleration of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) adoption. |
 DeskStream Inc., a leading provider of desktop virtualisation software, has today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire a prominent Northern Irish start-up in the cloud computing and virtualisation software space. DeskStream, with development centres in California, U. |
 Last month I became a regular user of the “Cloud” but I didn’t have to go back to school or swot up with computer science text books in my own time.
No, I just bought the eponymous e-book reader.
Now wherever I am and whatever internet devices I buy or have access to, anywhere in the world, I can read my favourite classic authors or the latest detective fiction, at my choice. |
December 01, 2011 | |
 Belfast’s leading IT Company, CMI helped bring the world renowned Lyric Theatre back to life as part of a multi-million pound project which saw the newly refurbished and extended venue open its doors to the public earlier this year.
Following a three year project, the landmark building, not only showcases the design and construction talent in Northern Ireland but also harnesses the latest in technology.
As part of the project, CMI designed and implemented a new IT infrastructure, installed a comprehensive wireless system - including a unique ticketing system for public wireless internet access which has the ability to display advertising on the back of every ticket printed, supplied new servers, equipment and supported a number of other areas in the Theatre including telephone, building control and advertising systems which are all part of the advanced computer network. |
August 02, 2011 |  |
ONE of Northern Ireland’s leading ICT companies, eircom Northern Ireland has linked up with the UK’s biggest business body, the CBI to host a digital breakfast to discuss the potential for Northern Ireland’ businesses to exploit cloud computing for maximum competitive benefit.
The event will take place at W5’s boardroom on Tuesday 6th September 2011 at 8.30 am. |
February 15, 2011 | |
Virtual Computing Environment drives the consolidation of group-wide infrastructure
Dublin, January 26th 2011 – Novosco, Ireland’s leading provider of virtual and cloud IT infrastructure and services, today announced that it has been chosen to implement a new private cloud computing infrastructure for the SISK Group, headquartered in Dublin. The solution contains fully integrated and supported elements [... |
December 07, 2010 |  |
Cloud computing has been heralded by suppliers as the latest big shift in technology. Related Stories Is Northern Ireland’s economy now better or worse off than it was in 2000? |
December 07, 2010 |  |
The Belfast office of an Irish technology firm has been involved in a world first as it helped stage a ‘virtual music festival’ in Co Kerry. Related Stories Street success for Sixteen SouthCapital Idea bites the dustCloud computing has the IT boffins excited, but is it secure enough for the business world to depend on? |
December 02, 2010 |  |
 BT has announced two new products across Ireland North and South for organisations that want the benefits of cloud computing when they plan their next-generation ICT services. In today’s turbulent economy, organisations need flexible, efficient, and secure networked IT services to sharpen their competitive edge, innovate how they do business and get to market first.
The first product, Virtual Data Centre (VDC), is a scalable, self-service virtual data centre that offers significant savings over standard hosted infrastructure, while the second, Next Generation Contact Centre (NGCC), is an on-demand solution that delivers multi-channel contact centre features without the capital investment. |
October 01, 2010 |  |
I'm not long back from a week in the US, on a UK Trade and Investment Cloud Mission. I was there with 11 other innovative UK companies all with technology which either enabled Cloud Computing, or provided services in the Cloud... |
October 01, 2010 | |
 Loughtec have announced the appointment of a Virtualisation and Systems Technical Analyst to support the company’s growth.
Ciaran brings an in-depth experience of the ICT sector to the firm and is viewed as an excellent addition to Loughtec, regarded as one of the most innovative ICT Service Providers in Ireland. As a customer focused and technical advisor Ciaran brings added expertise that will complement the existing specialist skill set of Loughtec as they embrace the ever changing technology workplace and adapt them to the needs of the clients. |
June 30, 2010 | |
Replify has demonstrated the ability of its Accelerator product to provide huge improvements in file transfer times to and from applications and file-shares hosted on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform. Replify Accelerator, available as an EC2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI), can be deployed in minutes and in trials reduces content transfer times by a factor of 50 or more. Replify Acceleratormitigates the response-time penalty of embracing cloud computing. |
Cloud computing service delivery models align 'extremely well' with the financial pressures created by the global economic downturn, according to global utility storage provider 3PAR.
The firm says that cloud computing models can deliver a valuable a competitive edge to enterprises seeking to grow their utility computing and utility storage environments.
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Organizations use utility computing to build cost-effective virtualized IT infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation. |
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