Freight ferry operator P&O Ferrymasters has upgraded its accounting system and moved it on to Windows to lower the cost of ownership and offer business managers more up-to-date information.
Mainframe users are increasingly polarised, with larger organisations showing no signs of giving up their big iron but smaller firms looking at Unix and Microsoft, according to a survey of IBM mainframe users.
Verari Systems, a developer of platform-independent blade computing systems, is to introduce server platforms based on the new dual-core Intel Xeon processor 5100, known to many as Woodcrest.
Three out of four businesses, regardless of size, already have or plan to deploy server virtualisation over the next 12 months, according to a survey by Yankee Group.
SMB network security and connectivity supplier Stonesoft has signed a partnership agreement with ITPS to distribute Stonesoft firewall and VPN technology.