Japanese technology giant Fujitsu unveiled a shake-up for its 80th birthday, spinning off its computer and tech products into subsidiaries and focusing on delivering connected services to big clients. Tatsuya Tanaka, president of the conglomerate since June, said the plan…
Mobile telecoms equipment maker Huawei has opened a new research and development centre in Dublin that is expected to create 50 jobs by 2016. The move is part of the company’s investment in R&D in Ireland, which will total €35 million…
US technology firm Digital Realty plans to invest a further €150 million in its data centre in west Dublin. The company plans to double the size of its existing 10,000sqft facility at Profile Park. Digital Realty offers data centre facilities…
IBM has announced Dublin and Hursley in the UK as two new bases for its ‘studio’ project, with Warsaw, Prague, Hamburg and Paris to be added before the year is out. This type of IBM studio houses teams of designers,…
The electronic payments and banking company ACI Solutions has announced it is to open a new EMEA data centre in late 2016 to accommodate growing demand. In terms of universal payments companies, ACI Worldwide is one of the largest of…
The Irish Software Association (ISA) has just revealed the companies shortlisted for the Irish Software Awards 2015, with five competing for the overall title of Digital Technology Company of the Year. Fenergo, Asavie, Qstream, Globoforce, and Ocuco – which employ…
“This is fun for me,” Michael Dell says. “If you told me I couldn’t do this, I’d be depressed.” The head of one the biggest technology companies in the world is candid about his motivation for growing the company he…
Irish cloud and information management company Kefron has invested €1m in acquiring both Evolution and Lightspeed, with plans to expand the overall workforce by the end of the year. The staff at both Lightspeed and Evolution will be retained, which…
Intel and Oracle are to partner to offer enhanced cloud-based data centre technologies and hardware, the companies announced in the opening keynote Sunday at this year’s annual Oracle OpenWorld event. Enterprise data centres are undergoing a “tremendous transition” as new technologies are introduced…
Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin has announced the establishment of an Open Data Governance Board with Inspirefest 2016 speaker Emer Coleman at its helm. The Open Data Governance Board will be responsible with advising the Irish Government…
