Total Produce starts as it means to go on
By Leslie Faughnan
A spin-off some years ago from Fyffes, Total Produce plc is an Irish-headquartered distributor of fresh produce across Europe.
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Private servers offer range of technical tasks
By Leslie Faughnan
The pace of development in ICT virtualisation in recent years has driven general business acceptance of the concept. It has also driven the rise of a new breed of business and consumer service delivered over the web.
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EMC at forefront of data revolution
By Leslie Faughnan
EMC is probably the world’s leading data storage specialist and majority shareholder in VMware, so it has an authoritative view of virtualisation in operation.
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Smart solutions are in the Post
By Leslie Faughnan
Postbank.ie and One Direct are well-known brands of Postbank, which is the An Post financial services subsidiary and is backed by BNP Paribas Fortis. Employing over 250 at its two locations in Dublin and Athlone, it completed a major virtualisation project early last year.
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Citrix hails the year of the virtual desktop
By Leslie Faughnan
Virtualisation is now ubiquitous, but organisations are still going through various phases of adoption and are at different points along the virtualisation road, said Dr Ian Pratt of Citrix Systems.
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Same law applies whatever the environment
By Leslie Faughnan
William Fry Solicitors is one of Ireland’s top five law firms, with a staff of almost 380 – including more than 250 lawyers.
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Musgrave Group gets stuck into change
By Leslie Faughnan
The first step in virtualisation for any business is just getting stuck in, according to Tony Griffin, head of IT shared services in the Musgrave Group. Musgrave is a €4.8 billion distribution company that includes the Centra and SuperValu brands, and the Budgens and Londis brands in Britain.
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Microsoft’s free Office software floating in the cloud this year
By Adrian Weckler
Microsoft will launch the first free version of its Office software later this year, in an attempt to engage with cloud-based applications.
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IT budgets to be slashed by firms
By Adrian Weckler
Irish companies will cut their IT budgets by up to half this year, according to a major new survey by the Irish Computer Society.
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Platform
By Adrian Weckler
There has been a lot of talk about Apple’s iPad being a’ game-changer’. In truth, the iPad has as much relevance to business IT as a VIP pass to the zoo. But are there any real IT ‘game-changers’ for Irish businesses? Yes. Here are three.
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