February 2006

• February 08, 2006 08 Feb'06

  Finding the right disaster recovery balance

  Find teh answer to a pressing question for SMBs  Continue Reading

• February 08, 2006 08 Feb'06

  SMEs receive IP communications boost

  Avaya and Juniper Networks have unveiled joint standards-based products to deliver IP-based communication for SMBs.  Continue Reading

• February 08, 2006 08 Feb'06

  Case study: Abbey Insurance Brokers

  Limited in-house IT skills led Abbey Insurance Brokers to use managed services for its call centre monitoring and recording systems  Continue Reading

• February 08, 2006 08 Feb'06

  IBM launches SMB solutions platform

  New addition to all-in-one IT platform for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs)  Continue Reading

• February 08, 2006 08 Feb'06

  Linksys launches switches for SMB networks

  Linksys unveils new range of web and SNMP Switches designed especially for SMBs  Continue Reading

• February 08, 2006 08 Feb'06

  Western European SMB IT market tops £90bn

  2005 SMB IT spending passes £90bn mark  Continue Reading

• February 08, 2006 08 Feb'06

  SMB community targeted by spam

  Spammers are hitting SMBs harder than larger companies  Continue Reading

• February 08, 2006 08 Feb'06

  Borland to sell Delphi and Jbuilder

  Borland is planning to sell its flagship Delphi and JBuilder development tools as it refocuses on Application Lifecycle Management.  Continue Reading

• February 08, 2006 08 Feb'06

  HP boosts database management offering with new acquisition

  Hewlett-Packard is to buy OuterBay, a supplier of archiving software for enterprise applications and databases.  Continue Reading

• February 08, 2006 08 Feb'06

  Fifteen new members sign up for Liberty Alliance

  Liberty Alliance, the organisation developing open standards for federated identity and strong authentication has been joined by 15 new members.  Continue Reading

• February 08, 2006 08 Feb'06

  Revenue makes 500,000 mistakes in tax codes

  Her Majesty’s Customs and Revenue is making errors in calculating at least a quarter of taxpayers’ PAYE codes so employers then deduct the wrong amount of tax, according to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee.  Continue Reading

• February 08, 2006 08 Feb'06

  MEF drives up quality standards in carrier Ethernet

  The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) has expanded its certification program to include quality of service parameters in network kit, to ensure service providers can give their customers the service they demand.  Continue Reading

• February 08, 2006 08 Feb'06

  Gartner forecasts steady growth in BI software sales

  The market for business intelligence software will grow consistently over the next three years to reach £3bn in 2009, rising from £2.35bn last year, according to Gartner.  Continue Reading

• February 08, 2006 08 Feb'06

  Microsoft warns of new .wmf flaw

  Microsoft is warning users of a newly-discovered hole in Internet Explorer affecting the .wmf image file format.  Continue Reading

• February 08, 2006 08 Feb'06

  HP water-cooled rack system aims to boost efficiency of blade farms

  Hewlett-Packard has launched a water cooling system that could address the problem of overheating blade servers and cut datacentre running costs.  Continue Reading

• February 07, 2006 07 Feb'06

  Ofcom promises enterprise users greater protection

  Telecoms regulator Ofcom is to give greater protection to enterprise users and spend less time on regulating the basic telecoms services market.  Continue Reading

• February 07, 2006 07 Feb'06

  BT offers firms cheaper mobile calls with Fusion

  BT has made its BT Fusion fixed mobile convergence (FMC) platform available to businesses, with the promise of cheaper mobile phone costs.  Continue Reading

• February 07, 2006 07 Feb'06

  Intel continues reduced power consumption drive

  Intel is working on two new manufacturing and design processes to improve transistor power efficiency and reduce motherboard power consumption.  Continue Reading

• February 07, 2006 07 Feb'06

  Intel and AMD unveil faster server chips

  Both Intel and AMD have unveiled their latest server chip designs at this week’s International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco.  Continue Reading

• February 07, 2006 07 Feb'06

  Novell gives Linux a graphics boost

  Novell is introducing software that can boost the graphics capabilities of the Linux operating system.  Continue Reading