October 2006

• October 23, 2006 23 Oct'06

  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

• October 23, 2006 23 Oct'06

  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

• October 23, 2006 23 Oct'06

  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

• October 23, 2006 23 Oct'06

  Framlington ups bandwidth with Gigabit Ethernet

  Framlingham Technology Centre is upgrading its fibre network to support Gigabit Ethernet.  Continue Reading

• October 23, 2006 23 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

• October 23, 2006 23 Oct'06

  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

• October 23, 2006 23 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

• October 23, 2006 23 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

• October 23, 2006 23 Oct'06

  EMC revamps hardware line

  Tired of being asked about its software strategies, the storage giant fires back with a massive refresh of its hardware lines.  Continue Reading

• October 23, 2006 23 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

• October 23, 2006 23 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

• October 23, 2006 23 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

• October 23, 2006 23 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

• October 23, 2006 23 Oct'06

  North East councils show shared IT services don't have to be monolithic

  Joint financial project demonstrates alternative to mega integration deals  Continue Reading

• October 23, 2006 23 Oct'06

  SDL expected to help fulfil Vista security promises

  Windows Vista is expected to be the most secure Microsoft product released thanks to the company's implementation of the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL).  Continue Reading

• October 23, 2006 23 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

• October 23, 2006 23 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

• October 23, 2006 23 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

• October 23, 2006 23 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

• October 23, 2006 23 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