July 2010

• July 14, 2010 14 Jul'10

  Oracle announces BI 11g

  Last week, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Business Intelligence 11g. This is a major release for Oracle and comes at a time when Microsoft and SAP have both made major announcements of ...  Continue Reading

• July 14, 2010 14 Jul'10

  When business trumps privacy

  The BBC reports that the financial failure of gay teenager magazine XY, and its associated database, has given rise to a painful privacy conundrum: what happens to the database of registered site ...  Continue Reading

• July 14, 2010 14 Jul'10

  Welcome to GreenTech

  Introducing GreenTech, the Green IT and sustainability and lean thinking blog  Continue Reading

• July 14, 2010 14 Jul'10

  Email archive services explained

  In this email archive services podcast, Ian Lock of GlassHouse Technologies looks at the pros and cons of outsourcing email archiving.  Continue Reading

• July 14, 2010 14 Jul'10

  Email archiving services: How they work and how to select a service

  Email archiving services offload key chores for storage admins; but before you go that route, find out about the types of services available, costs and other factors to consider in the selection process.  Continue Reading

• July 14, 2010 14 Jul'10

  Automation of data centers: 10 ways to start off your automation initiatives

  What are the key areas to focus on while contemplating data center automation (DCA)? A look at how you can go about automating your data center.  Continue Reading

• July 14, 2010 14 Jul'10

  NetApp wins 200 petabyte deal with CenITex, establishes virtualisation centre of excellence

  NetApp and Dimension Data have teamed to win storage, backup and recovery services for Victoria's shared services agency CenITex. NetApp will also create a new "Global Centre for Virtualization Excellence" in Australia.  Continue Reading

• July 14, 2010 14 Jul'10

  IBM joins forces with European Union on e-services research

  IBM has announced that it is collaborating with the European Union, industry and academia, to launch an e-services research consortium; plus more daily news.  Continue Reading

• July 14, 2010 14 Jul'10

  ISO 27001 SoA: Creating an information security policy document

  To achieve and fulfill UK government contracts, companies must be able to prove that they meet data handling security guidelines, which many organisations are doing under the auspices of ISO 27001. In this expert tip, learn the importance of ...  Continue Reading

• July 13, 2010 13 Jul'10

  Suppliers could lose £3.7bn in schools IT cutbacks

  The government's decision to cut the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme could cost IT suppliers about £3.7bn in lost business, according to research.  Continue Reading

• July 13, 2010 13 Jul'10

  Get your motormouse running

  Downtime has often wondered what is the best seller out of all the apparently pointless items in the executive toys section of in-flight duty-free shopping brochures. (Yes, we know, this makes us ...  Continue Reading

• July 13, 2010 13 Jul'10

  Economic incentives for cyber security

  I read that US Cyber Czar Howard Schmidt is scheduled to hold a meeting on Wednesday with Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, where he ...  Continue Reading

• July 13, 2010 13 Jul'10

  When IT meets ideology - what next for NHS IT?

  Not unlike politics, IT management has long been an ideological affair. There are those who believe firmly in the mantra of outsourcing, for example, and equally those who just as strongly oppose ...  Continue Reading

• July 13, 2010 13 Jul'10

  e-Crime Wales Summit 2010

  If you're interested in tracking the proceedings at Thursday's e-Crime conference in Wales, there's a live blog with session highlights and a Twitter feed (use the hashtag #ecrimewales). You can ...  Continue Reading

• July 13, 2010 13 Jul'10

  Cambridge village gets fibre to the home

  Villagers in Broughton, a Cambridgeshire hamlet near Huntingdon, will have access to superfast broadband through a fibre to the home (FTTH) network supplied by Vtesse Broadband, the new broadband arm of Vtesse Networks.  Continue Reading

• July 13, 2010 13 Jul'10

  Microsoft shares source code with Russian government

  Microsoft has signed an agreement with Russia to share the source code of multiple products, according to US reports.  Continue Reading

• July 13, 2010 13 Jul'10

  Infosys reports solid growth as customers move to fixed-priced contracts

  Infosys has reported a boost in profits in its Q1 2010 results, with revenue for the quarter up 4.3% to $6.2bn. Net income after tax was $326m.  Continue Reading

• July 13, 2010 13 Jul'10

  Facebook appeals Ceglia claim asset freeze at Federal court

  Facebook is trying to overturn an order temporarily blocking any transfer of the company's assets as the social networking firm responds to a website developer's...

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• July 13, 2010 13 Jul'10

  Northern Foods boosts IT investment

  Northern Foods is pressing ahead with technology-driven automation, despite falling sales and predictions of challenging trading ahead.  Continue Reading

• July 13, 2010 13 Jul'10

  Google tool lets anyone develop apps for Android

  Google has announced a web-based visual software development tool to make it easy to create applications for mobile devices running the Android operating...

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