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Articles by William Knight

Green IT: How to reduce network energy demands

  • In Depth
  • Date: 23 November 2009
Companies are faced with the twin threats of escalating energy prices and customer examination of their green credentials. Meanwhile, the network is always on and always eating power. William Knight investigates the route to green networks.

Testing is crucial for business continuity success

  • News
  • Date: 10 November 2009
Responsive business thrives on continuity. William Knight finds that the trick to uninterrupted business is testing continuity processes before disaster strikes.

SMI-S storage standard breaks supplier lock-in

  • In Depth
  • Date: 06 September 2009
There is work to be done, but the Storage Management Initiative - Specification (SMI-S) standard promises best-of-breed storage systems, easily provisioned by informed users.

Make your back-up and archiving fit for purpose

  • News
  • Date: 24 September 2009
Distinctions between archive and back-up may blur but they remain vital components of any storage strategy.

Mitigate against inevitable smartphone losses

  • In Depth
  • Date: 24 April 2009
Whatever else you do, "Assume your smartphone will be lost or stolen and plan accordingly," says David Porter, head of security and risk at Detica consultancy.

Developing software for the cloud

  • News
  • Date: 27 March 2009
In many ways the metaphor of cloud is a good one...

Green IT: Microsoft takes the roof of its datacentre

  • In Depth
  • Date: 29 January 2009
Arne Josefsberg, general manager of infrastructure services at Global Foundation Services, Microsoft, says it is vital to monitor the average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) across all the company's datacentres to understand how well datacentre operations are under control, and to allow the company to make the right business decisions.

Google invests to reduce carbon footprint

  • In Depth
  • Date: 23 January 2009
Google has an impressive record when it comes to green investment, but could the IT giant do more?

Securing the desktop and still allowing for flexibility

  • In Depth
  • Date: 08 July 2008
Few enterprises could bear a $7.2bn loss caused by a "computer genius" avoiding company policies and controls. But for international bank Société Générale,...

Legacy retailers find payment card security a tough standard

  • In Depth
  • Date: 17 March 2008
Every ten weeks or so, more than 1,400 physicians pay the Royal College of Physicians a fee - typically £800 - to take examinations, and most of them pay via the RCP's purpose-built website. For this, the RCP must comply with a credit card security standard called the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), or be refused support from its sponsoring bank.
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