August 2005

August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05
Make marketing more relevant

Responsys, a premier global provider of on-demand email and lifecycle marketing solutions, has announced Interact 5, the latest version of the company's email marketing automation software. Continue Reading
August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05
Distiller saves £40,000 a year with customs document management

William Grant & Sons, the distiller of Glenfiddich whisky, has migrated to the Covus document processing system to save up to £40,000 a year. Continue Reading
August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05
Network Appliance completes acquisition of data security specialist

Network Appliance has completed its $260m (£153m) acquisition of storage security company Decru. Continue Reading

August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05
DefCon and Black Hat wireless hackers foiled

Hackers at the recently held DefCon and Black Hat security conferences in Las Vegas failed to hack the wireless networks set up for the events, despite challenges from the organisers. Continue Reading
August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05
Opera celebrates tenth anniversary with free code

Opera is celebrating its tenth anniversary as a browser software provider by giving away complimentary registration codes for its software. Continue Reading
August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05
SMEs offered new data management suite

Ipswitch, the network management, messaging and file transfer solutions provider, has released the Ipswitch WS_FTP Data Management Suite for SMEs. Continue Reading
August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05
IT recruiters urged to aid staff diversity

IT recruitment firms are being encouraged to tackle discrimination by considering a wider range of potential employees. Continue Reading
August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05
Canary Wharf to offer full Wi-Fi coverage

London business district Canary Wharf will go live with one of Europe's largest Wi-Fi zones, spanning a 97 acre site, at the end of September. Continue Reading
August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05
C&W's IP ring offers fast access for London

Cable & Wireless has switched on the London ring of its IP-based Next Generation Network (NGN). Continue Reading
August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05
EMC acquisition boost to customer support

EMC is to acquire network virtualisation company Rainfinity. Continue Reading

August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05
Hitachi researchers make quantum leap

A team of researchers at Hitachi-Cambridge has developed a silicon device to facilitate quantum computing. Continue Reading
August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05
Shipbuilder VT upgrades to solve NT4 support headaches

Shipbuilder VT Group is updating its server infrastructure to use Microsoft's Active Directory, as it replaces its Windows NT 4.0 servers. Continue Reading
August 30, 2005 30 Aug'05
Myfip's Titan Rain connection

LURHQ researchers say the Myfip worm is a good example of the malcode Chinese hackers are using in the so-called Titan Rain attacks against U.S. government networks. Continue Reading
August 30, 2005 30 Aug'05
Antivirus can introduce dangerous network security holes into any OS

AV software is one of the most basic security steps available. It's also yet another gateway for security breaches. Continue Reading
August 30, 2005 30 Aug'05
Passive fingerprinting: Applications and prevention

In this excerpt from the book Silence on the Wire, author Michal Zalewski discusses both malicious and beneficial uses for passive fingerprinting, and how to prevent successful passive fingerprinting on your network. Continue Reading
August 30, 2005 30 Aug'05
Pensions department cuts deal for £900m saving

The Department for Work and Pensions and its main technology supplier EDS have struck a deal to revise and standardise 150 separate contracts, cutting the department's IT spend by £900m over five years. Continue Reading
August 30, 2005 30 Aug'05
Sainsbury's vets suppliers over IT continuity plans

Sainsbury's has begun a drive to ensure its key suppliers have business continuity plans in place to deal with disruptions such as the loss of IT systems or key sites becoming inaccessible. Continue Reading
August 30, 2005 30 Aug'05
Intel promises to ease spiralling datacentre power consumption

Intel is promising to ease the problem of spiralling power consumption in datacentres. Continue Reading
August 30, 2005 30 Aug'05
BAA cuts its desktop costs with thin clients

Airports operator BAA has cut 28% off the installation, management and maintenance cost of 8,500 desktops by replacing PCs with thin client terminals. Continue Reading
August 30, 2005 30 Aug'05
Online services deadline will be met but will public be won over?

Councils may fail to attract people to access services electronically despite meeting the government's end-of year deadline to get services online, public sector IT managers group Socitm has warned. Continue Reading

An introduction to intelligent document processing for CIOs

With IDP, enterprises can bring documents into automation workflows, which can help reduce document processing time and save on ...

Why CIOs need to establish an automation CoE

With organizations continuing to automate business processes across several departments at a rapid pace, it's time they consider ...

Is your company's IT governance strategy cloud ready?

As companies prepare to migrate to the cloud, they need to review their IT governance strategy before making any decisions to ...

SearchSecurity

Why SASE should be viewed as an evolution, not revolution

The hype around secure access service edge (SASE) is palpable. But by taking a step back, security leaders can align an emerging ...

The 5 principles of zero-trust security

Zero trust is a journey, not a destination. Ensure your corporate network is safe from internal and external threats by ...

Iranian hackers pose as far-right group to threaten U.S. voters

The FBI said Russia and Iran have obtained voter information, and Iranian hackers have also been sending threatening emails to ...

SearchNetworking

The power and plights of female network engineers

Impostor syndrome burdens female network engineers, due to discrimination, as well as a lack of representation and education. But...

Bye-bye ISR, hello Catalyst 8000 for Cisco SD-WAN

The new Catalyst 8300 Series of routers replace ISRs that customers said were ill-equipped to run the Cisco SD-WAN. Cisco also ...

Juniper's 128 acquisition needed to improve SD-WAN

Juniper Networks plans to 'enhance' its Contrail SD-WAN through the acquisition of 128 Technology. 128 has a more advanced SD-WAN...

SearchDataCenter

IBM cloud revenues climb as hardware continues to decline

IBM cloud revenues continue to increase as hardware sales drop, sharpening the company's strategy to focus on hybrid cloud.

Figure out the differences of asset management vs. CMDB

There is no shortage of software options for change management tools. Operational goals can help IT teams decide if ITAM or CMDB ...

IBM partners with HBCUs to promote quantum computing

IBM is partnering with a group of historically Black colleges and universities to set up a quantum computing center in hopes of ...

SearchDataManagement

Growing enterprise benefits of augmented data management

Gartner predicts plenty of growth in the booming augmented data management market, which helps data professionals focus on ...

MongoDB Atlas now enables multi-cloud database clusters

Multi-cloud data portability comes to MongoDB Atlas with a new capability that will enable users to run a database application ...

How AI data privacy can help your enterprise

Enterprises benefit in many ways from AI data privacy tools that reduce the need for manual efforts from data professionals. Read...