July 2006

July 31, 2006 31 Jul'06
Real life experiences: Lessons learned in disaster recovery planning

Debbie Schwartz shares the lessons she has learned in keeping disaster recovery implementations up-to-date with new and changing business needs. Continue Reading
July 31, 2006 31 Jul'06
Disaster recovery, security drive financial firm to Private IP

A Florida financial firm picked a Private IP line to connect its 43 branch offices, build a disaster recovery site, and secure customer information. Also, the company will now have fewer management headaches. Continue Reading
July 30, 2006 30 Jul'06
Data management overview: Chapter 4 - Compliance

Regulations and other legislation now mandate the integrity, accessibility and long-term retention of data in any publicly held company -- even across specific industries like banking and healthcare. Continue Reading

July 30, 2006 30 Jul'06
Mozilla releases critical security updates

The open source group has issued new versions of Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey to fix 13 software security flaws, eight of which have been deemed critical. Continue Reading
July 30, 2006 30 Jul'06
EqualLogic updates storage provisioning software

Users have more options when it comes to pooling storage with version 3.0 of EqualLogic's array software, but some are wondering whatever happened to the SAS disks. Continue Reading
July 28, 2006 28 Jul'06
IT firms blacked out in Soho

Hundreds of new media and IT companies are being affected by continuing power interruptions in the Soho area of central London. Continue Reading
July 28, 2006 28 Jul'06
Birmingham council cuts costs using on-line reverse auctions

Birmingham City Council has more than halved it expenditure on office supplies using a pilot online auctions scheme to award supplier contracts. Continue Reading
July 28, 2006 28 Jul'06
Government creates Delivery Council

The government's Service Transformation Board has been transformed into the Delivery Council. Continue Reading
July 28, 2006 28 Jul'06
Mobile operators promise to block stolen mobiles

The five main UK mobile operators have pledged to block around 80% of stolen or lost mobile phones within 48 hours of them being reported missing. Continue Reading
July 28, 2006 28 Jul'06
Microsoft buys patient record system supplier

Microsoft has expanded its healthcare software offering with the purchase of the Azyxxi database system for patient records. Continue Reading

July 28, 2006 28 Jul'06
Microsoft changes Office 2007 user interface

Microsoft is changing the user interface in its forthcoming Office 2007 productivity suite. Continue Reading
July 28, 2006 28 Jul'06
IT and telecoms is 'boring job' for graduates

IT and telecoms is the fifth most boring jobs category, according to research conducted by a government teacher training organisation. Continue Reading
July 28, 2006 28 Jul'06
Intel slashes high performance chip prices

Intel has slashed the prices of some of its high performance chips as part of an ongoing price war with AMD Continue Reading
July 28, 2006 28 Jul'06
Microsoft boss vows to end OS delays

Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer has told financial analysts that the company will never again allow new versions of the Windows operating system to be severely delayed. Continue Reading
July 27, 2006 27 Jul'06
Majority of phishing attacks target PayPal and eBay users

Internet security software firm Sophos said it has analysed all the phishing e-mails received by its threat analysis centres around the world, and discovered that 54.3% of the messages were aiming to steal log-in and other details from PayPal users. Continue Reading
July 27, 2006 27 Jul'06
SOA providers team up to develop standards

Leading providers of service orientated architecture (SOA) software have joined forces to further develop standards for users. Continue Reading
July 27, 2006 27 Jul'06
Unilever announces trial of new RFID standard

Unilever is to be the first company to use a new RFID (radio frequency identification) standard developed by IBM and T3Ci. Continue Reading
July 27, 2006 27 Jul'06
Government saves £412m on procurement

A total of £412m was saved by Treasury buying agency OGCbuying.solutions last year, through a variety of new procurement methods. Continue Reading
July 27, 2006 27 Jul'06
Flaw in Cisco VPN 3000 kit cannot be patched

A flaw in a protocol used by Cisco Systems' VPN 3000 Series virtual private networking kit can open up firms to a denial of service attack, but it cannot be patched. Continue Reading
July 27, 2006 27 Jul'06
Missing files on US employees are found

A laptop computer containing personal information on 540,000 New York state employees has been found, after going missing in May. Continue Reading