October 2006
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October 23, 2006
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CSC seeks 100 technical architects
Systems integrator CSC is to recruit 100 technical architects after it won contracts worth £2bn to provide systems to the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in North East England and the East of England. Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Hitachi: “Businesses squander energy”
Businesses are failing to think about the electricity used up by their data storage systems, a survey carried out at London’s 2006 Storage Expo by Hitachi Data Systems has revealed. Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Banca Intesa ditches legacy storage
The London branch of Banca Intesa has installed two 3PAR InServ Storage Servers to support its mission-critical capital markets and merchant banking applications. Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Framlington ups bandwidth with Gigabit Ethernet
Framlingham Technology Centre is upgrading its fibre network to support Gigabit Ethernet. Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Oct'06
BBC outsources business processes to India
The BBC has selected Xansa as its preferred supplier for a 10-year business process outsourcing (BPO) contract worth £85m. Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Gartner warns of Vista incompatibility
Promised changes to security features in Microsoft’s forthcoming Vista operating system could take years to deliver, leaving users with incompatibility problems, analysts have warned. Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Oct'06
CIOs increase their strategic role
Chief information officers (CIOs) in the UK believe they have begun playing an increasingly strategic role over the past 12 months, a major survey by Harvey Nash and KPMG reveals. Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Oct'06
Juniper on fibre's future : Day One
Juniper Networks's Roger Geerts chats to TechTarget ANZ Consulting Editor Ian Yates about whether 10G Ethernet will crawl on copper or fly on Fibre. Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Oct'06
Nexsan boosts its storage systems capacity
Nexsan Technologies has announced a 45% capacity increase in its line of SATA storage systems. Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Oct'06
IT executives eager to exploit Web 2.0 wave
What good is a blog if no one reads it? IT managers find out and begin to make blogging and other Web 2.0 tools a more strategic part of their business. Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Oct'06
Fortify Tracer fills in the app security blanks
Although black box security testing is important to do, researchers at Fortify Software have found it isn't enough to help developers find and repair code flaws. To remedy that, Fortify has created a product to complement black box testing and give ... Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Oct'06
Fully hosted SAM service gets up and running
Liken Group is claiming that for the first time, software asset management (SAM) is available as a fully hosted, managed service delivered to service level guarantees on an ongoing basis. Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Oct'06
OpenVZ project ports its code to Power 64
The OpenVZ project has ported its operating system-level server virtualisation software technology, which is now available for systems using Power 64-bit processors. Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Oct'06
Rapid increase in wireless hotspot growth
Deployment of wireless hotspots in Europe has jumped by 28% between May 2005 and September 2006, according to research by BroadGroup Tariff Services. Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Oct'06
SATA boosts RAID 6 use
High-capacity SATA disks are driving up the use of RAID 6, which has prompted vendors to create new ways of overcoming the performance hit incurred with dual-parity protection. Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Oct'06
UK firms must wake up to security
With recent headlines focusing on overseas data security breaches, it is all too easy for UK firms to be complacent. But the threat at home is every bit as real Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Oct'06
Virtual Iron 3.0 is launched
In a bid to wrest the virtualisation initiative from VMware by setting a new price point for virtualisation, Virtual Iron has launched version 3.0 of its virtualisation system. Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Oct'06
Security researcher, professor influences students for life
Dorothy Denning, a professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School, has contributed to the field of data security. Her work earned her a Security 7 award. Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Oct'06
Sun sets out virtualisation strategy
Sun has announced its three-pronged virtualisation strategy. Continue Reading
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October 23, 2006
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Oct'06
QLogic dives into directors
QLogic will announce its new SanBox 9000 director this week, but it's missing true director-class features and is encroaching on a market already dominated by Brocade and Cisco. Continue Reading