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Climate change 'a major threat to business', firms tell survey

Most organisations believe climate change will be a major threat to business in the next ten years, according to a survey by the organisers of Business Continuity Expo 2008.

Users must focus on recovery of business-critical systems, Neverfail says

End-users tend to focus too heavily on data protection and do not make provision for rapid recovery of business-critical systems and processes, says continuity services provider Neverfail.

Hot skills: Dojo encourages Ajax innovation

What is it? In April 2006, a reviewer provided a round-up of 50 different Ajax frameworks and toolsets - and the number has certainly increased since then. They include commercial start-ups, and plenty of open-source efforts, many with small but devoted followings. For Microsoft users, the choice is likely to be ASP.net Ajax. Other developers may be looking for the freedom of open source combined with the sponsorship of major technology providers. For those who want access to a comprehensive and proven Javascript library, Dojo combines a large open source community with the backing of IBM and Sun, among others.

Is software as a service the answer for SMEs?

The more grey-haired among us grew up in an era before the personal computer, when our first experience of computing was often a teletype linked at just a few hundred bits/sec to a timeshared mainframe, writes Jim Norton. The dream in those days was to have dedicated computing resources under your own control. Now the wheel in computing may be turning back to a similar model, but this time for all the right reasons.

Cafcass signs £25m transformational government deal with Fujitsu

Cafcass (Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service) has signed a £25m deal with Fujitsu to join the Flex transformational government framework jointly run with the Cabinet Office.

Unison offers live online test for Linux unified comms system

Unison Technologies' Linux-based unified communications software is now available for instant testing.

Avaya introduces new unified communications bundle

Avaya introduced four bundles of hardware and software at VoiceCon Orlando this week designed to address specific business groups: teleworkers, mobile workers, home call-centre agents and small businesses. The company is also offering a bundle for branch offices for chain stores and banks.

PayPal launches multi-pronged attack on e-crime

"With e-crime, there's no silver bullet," says Garreth Griffith, head of UK risk management at online payment processor PayPal. "A specific initiative can have a huge impact, but it also has to be married with other initiatives along a spectrum. You can't just focus on educating users or working with law enforcement - you've got to go for a multi-pronged approach as you're constantly fighting a war against the fraud guys."

Eden Brown boosts communications with fibre network

Recruitment firm Eden Brown has signed a contract with fibre network company Geo to supply a network to improve its communications and support business growth.

Security and email top SMEs’ home working concerns

Data protection and email management are the key concerns in a practice that SMEs' businesses depend on.
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