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New cloud master’s at DCU

DCU Business School is starting three new MSc programmes in September in cloud computing, digital marketing and strategy to help equip graduates with skills in high-growth areas and to help tackle Ireland’s ICT skills gap. The programmes have been devised,

Posted in Cloud Computing

Irish firms adopting cloud computing without realising

Irish businesses are confused about cloud computing to the extent that many are using the technology without realising it, according to a new report by O2. The survey of 350 Irish business owners and managers was conducted by Behaviour &

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Datapac wins Cisco Premier Partner of the Year Award

Co. Dublin, Ireland — May. 2012 — Datapac, Ireland’s largest indigenous ICT solutions provider, today announced that it has been named Cisco Premier Partner of the Year for Ireland. The annual award is given to the Irish Cisco premier partner,

Posted in Managed Services

IBM Global Services Integration Hub to employ several hundred in Mulhuddart

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton TD, welcome investment by IDA key strategic client. Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton TD, today,welcomed the announcement that IBM is to create

Posted in Investment

MBO at Maxima Ireland, becomes part of Zinopy

Virtualisation and cloud computing firm Maxima Ireland’s management team have led a management buyout of the company in a deal supported by security firm Zinopy. Maxima Ireland will trade under the Zinopy brand. Maxima’s Aidan McEvoy and Brendan Matthews will

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Virtual Computing Forum 2012

Due to the phenomenal success of the 2011 event, Citrix and DataSolutions are delighted to announce the 2012 Virtual Computing Forum. This year’s event, which is free to attend, is set to be even better, with some of the biggest

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SAP lays out cloud strategy post acquisition

SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a “loosely coupled suite” of business applications to data integration and PaaS (platform as a service) during the Sapphire conference in Orlando. The conference

Posted in Cloud Computing, Managed Services, Server Rooms

Dublin disaster recovery firm Network Recovery acquires Barlan

Dublin-based cloud and disaster recovery firm Network Recovery, of which Digicel founder Denis O’Brien is a shareholder, has acquired the entire share capital of Barlan, an IT managed services and bespoke software provider, which had been based in Malahide up

Posted in Cloud Computing, Investment, Managed Services

System Dynamics to create 30 new jobs

One of Ireland’s oldest indigenous IT services companies System Dynamics plans to create 30 further jobs on the back of revenue growth in the UK market. Over the past 12 months the company, which has its headquarters in Dublin, added

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IBM’s ‘building whisperer’ sees retrofit boom

America’s skyscrapers, many built before World War Two, are showing their age. IBM’s “building whisperer,” Dave Bartlett, believes many of these buildings could use a diet. Bartlett, who leads IBM’s smarter building initiative, is known as the “building whisperer” because

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