The IT virtualisation product market is expanding rapidly in both reach and range. On the client side, established desktop and application virtualisation products are being joined by new offerings that are pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved in this space.
GrIDsure, a British start-up providing a method to strengthen personal identification numbers, expects to announce that a major card issuer is introducing its system by the end of this year.
A survey from security supplier Webroot found that SMBs are more worried about viruses than spyware, leaving them open to a more insidious and costly threat.
According to IDC, nearly 70% of IT server spending in 2010 will be on x86 servers. Once, there was a perception in the industry that these servers were suitable primarily for filling low-end computing niches, such as file-and-print, e-mail and departmental serving.
The datacentre has become home to a heterogeneous set of mission-critical application and infrastructure servers, supported by any number of communications and storage devices, inter-connected by a tangled web of I/O cables and power cords, creating a complex, administrative nightmare.
The Department for Transport has come under fire amid allegations that new legislation requiring councils to invest in IT systems to co-ordinate roadworks is "unworkable".