Microsoft and Nortel have announced that 430,000 licenses have been issued for their range of jointly developed unified communications (UC) products since its launch last year. According to Gartner, this is indicative of enterprise seeing increased value in using unified communications.
Your server is working slowly and the accounts department is complaining that queries are taking three times as long as normal. You start by checking everything from the top of the network stack down.
The number of IT contractors working in the engineering sector has almost doubled in 12 months because of demand generated by the 2012 Olympics, according to contractor Giant Group PLC.
You might consider a Church of England cathedral to be an unexpected user of IT technologies such as thin client systems, mobile Blackberry devices and power over telephone lines. However, Portsmouth Cathedral has been pushing the envelope with its IT system for several years.
EMC's revenues are up this quarter, attributed in part to a big boost in Clariion sales, but CEO Joe Tucci is critical of the company's execution in data archiving.
Small businesses were caught off-guard by the severe flooding this week as service providers were inundated with distress calls from companies caught in the downpour that has engulfed parts of central and southern England.