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Host in Ireland President, Garry Connolly, to Keynote at Sustainable Processing 2015

Host in Ireland, a marketing initiative created to drive interest in hosting digital assets in Ireland, today announces its President and Founder, Garry Connolly, will deliver the keynote during Sustainable Processing 2015, an Irish industry event hosted by the Sustainable

Posted in Cloud Computing, Data Centres

Tech business week: Dublin a Tech Hub, and UPC becomes Virgin

This week in tech business news, Dublin is added to the Google Tech Hub Network, and UPC is to be renamed Virgin Media in Ireland. Google has added Dublin to its Tech Hub Network through a partnership with Dogpatch Labs.

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Google’s new EU user consent policy

In response to a request from EU regulators, Google has updated its user consent policy, and website owners need to ensure compliance by 30 September. Mason Hayes & Curran explains why and how. Web users may have noticed an increase

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Google’s new Dublin Tech Hub

In what is a major coup for the city’s burgeoning start-up community, the Tech Hub Network increases the amount of start-up resources available from Google in terms of mentors, access to new technologies and access to co-working space in other

Posted in Data Centres

Cloud giant VMware names Irishman Ray O’Farrell its CTO and CDO

In the combined CTO and CDO roles O’Farrell will be responsible for orchestration across all of VMware’s R&D business units and he will lead VMware’s CTO team. Prior to this O’Farrell served as general manager of the Software-Defined Data Centre

Posted in Energy, Investment

Windows 10 lands

Microsoft has revealed that it is already firmly on the road towards its 1bn target for Windows 10, with some 75m machines upgrading to the new operating system after its first month. Microsoft released the new operating system on 29

Posted in Cloud Computing

3 Ireland, Wandera provide mobile data security, optimisation

Wandera, provider of advanced mobile threat prevention and data usage optimization for enterprises, together with enterprise mobility specialist CWSI, has announced a strategic partnership with Three to deliver its secure mobile gateway services to business customers in Ireland. The integration

Posted in Data Centres, Energy

Windows 10 review: a true return to form for Microsoft

There’s a certain rhythm to Microsoft and operating systems if you have been paying attention over the last 15 or 20 years. And yesterday’s (29 July) arrival of Windows 10 to 190 countries around the world for free is in

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Kelsius wins €2m wireless technology deal with Musgraves

A Donegal-based food technology company has landed a €2 million contract with Musgraves. The deal will see Kelsius’s wireless FoodCheck technology rolled out in SuperValu and Centra stores across the State. Between them, the two brand stores operate 680 outlets

Posted in Energy

BT to cover 95pc of the UK with fibre broadband by end of 2017

We all know that the speed of light is particularly fast. However, do we know how slow it seems when travelling through our sparse solar system? Alphonse Swinehart has created an excellent visualisation to portray this, taking us from the

Posted in Energy