Security is a holistic issue; it’s not your network you need to protect, it’s the information inside that network and that means guarding against data leaks as well as network intrusions.
About 50% of companies host their web sites and e-business infrastructure in-house, using their own facilities. However, with new pressures to consider such as the rising costs of power and cooling and the growing imperative of green IT, is hosting in-house still the right option for a business?
Businesses are replacing departmental databases - known as data marts - with enterprise data warehouses designed to pool information across the company.
Are we alone in the universe? Could life exist on other planets? Questions like these have inspired countless science fiction stories, but at the University of Exeter's Astrophysics department, these queries are at the forefront of research. The department is using a range of supercomputers coupled with its own bespoke open source software to study how stars and planets are formed.