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• SNW Europe 2010: Busy exhibition hall

  Delegates, vendors, speakers, press and analysts flooded the exhibition hall.  Continue Reading

• SNW Europe 2010: Toys for the boys

  F5's helicopters proved popular with attendees at SNW Europe 2010.  Continue Reading

• SNW Europe 2010: Welcome packs

  Fujitsu helped contribute exciting welcome packs for attendees.  Continue Reading

• SNW Europe 2010: The keynotes

  SNW Europe featured several insightful keynotes over the three days.  Continue Reading

• SNW Europe 2010: HP had the biggest racks

  Data centre demos had attendees flocking to HP's booth.  Continue Reading

• SNW Europe 2010: Detailed floor plan

  The show spanned three floors of the Congress Centre, as seen in this floor plan.  Continue Reading

• SNW Europe 2010: Symantec's data loss protesters

  Symantec's marketers weathered the data loss storm.  Continue Reading

• SNW Europe 2010: Quantum mugs

  Quantum's personalised mugs were a hit during the show.  Continue Reading

• SNW Europe 2010: Bustling press room

  The "speed dating"-style press room got people in touch with the right journalists.  Continue Reading

• SNW Europe 2010: The Power of 3

  At SNW Europe 2010, three shows -- Datacentre Technologies, SNW Europe and Virtualisation World -- came together to form 'The Power of 3.'  Continue Reading

• Buyer’s guide to smartphone management

  Today's IT managers support an increasingly decentralised and mobile workforce - one with multiple segments of workers, each with their own unique set of needs.  Continue Reading

• Yahoo preassembles New York data centre

  Scott Noteboom compares the developments in the discipline of datacentre design in recent years to the manufacturing revolution that Henry Ford sparked in...  Continue Reading

• Buyer's guide to OpenOffice 3.3: what can it offer to small businesses?

  Released this summer with the final product expected soon, the Openoffice 3.3 beta is giving Microsoft's proprietary suite of 'productivity applications' a good run for its money.  Continue Reading

• Sungard Financial cuts backup costs by 10x with Data Domain dedupe during disaster recovery upgrade

  Sungard Financial cuts backup costs with Data Domain DD690 deduplication appliances and Symantec NetBackup consolidation as part of a disaster recovery upgrade.  Continue Reading

• Open source backup software gives mainstream backup a run for its money

  Open source backup software offers most features found in mainstream backup products and is an option for any size of business that's happy to do some tweaking and maintenance.  Continue Reading

• RBI Achievement Awards entry for Faisal Alani

  I am industrious, innovative and creative, often coming up with new ways to engage our audiences and provide them with new resources.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: IT loves circuses

  IT attendees at VMworld Europe showed some love for CA's circus show.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: CommVault t-shirt

  Attendees got a good laugh from CommVault's witty t-shirts.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: VMware genius bar

  Experts were available at VMware's stand to answer attendees' questions at VMworld Europe.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: CA's stand and circus sign

  CA promotes its circus show to VMworld Europe 2010 attendees.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: VMware's End User Computing strategy

  VMware ensured that experts were connecting with users at VMworld Europe.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: Paul Maritz

  VMworld Europe kicks off with a keynote address from VMware's president and CEO, Paul Maritz.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: CA's circus evening show

  CA Technologies livened up the night at VMworld Europe 2010 by hiring circus performers to entertain attendees.  Continue Reading

• Cloud computing questions for enterprises to consider

  The IT director at a sports marketing agency discusses what businesses must ask themselves when preparing for cloud computing, along with why the cloud failed to meet his expectations in terms of disaster recovery.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: CloudPoint's cupcakes

  VMworld Europe attendees munched on specially-ordered cloud cupcakes from CloudPoint.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: Goodbye

  An attendee leaves VMworld Europe as the show comes to a close.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: Cloud signs

  Clouds are fun decorations at VMware's booth at VMworld Europe 2010.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: Crowds gather for lunch

  Guests were treated to a delicious lunch before the Best of VMworld User Awards.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: Thirsty work being a geek

  VMworld Europe attendees were treated to thousands of free soft drinks during the show.  Continue Reading

• MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World - how the internet is helping to regulate society

  It seemed like a typical morning commute for most New Yorkers on 8 January 2007, until a strong, gas-like odour permeated parts of New York City and nearby areas of New Jersey, forcing several schools and companies to evacuate, and interrupting ...  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: VCE demo

  VMworld Europe attendees were greeted with a private cloud demo from the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010

  This slideshow captures all the different aspects of VMworld Europe 2010, from CA's circus show to Paul Maritz's keynote.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: CA's flying monkey

  The exotic animals CA brought in to add to its circus-themed night excited and entertained VMworld attendees.  Continue Reading

• Scenes from VMworld Europe 2010: User Awards sign

  SearchVirtualDataCentre.co.UK's award presentation sign enticed and excited attendees throughout the show.  Continue Reading

• Spending Review 2010

  The UK government aims to slash IT expenditure by reducing the amount it spends on maintenance, promoting the use of open systems and working with smaller IT suppliers. Many of the major IT suppliers have signed a memorandum of understanding, to ...  Continue Reading

• Will 2.5-inch drives supplant 3.5-inch drives in storage arrays?

  2.5-inch drives occupy less space and use less energy than 3.5-inch drives. Is the day of the 3.5-inch drive in enterprise storage arrays drawing to a close?  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2010: Project Management

  IT Blog Awards 2010: Project Management - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2010: Company / Corporate - Large Enterprise

  IT Blog Awards 2010: Company / Corporate - Large Enterprise - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2010: Individual IT Professional Female

  IT Blog Awards 2010: Individual IT Professional Female - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2010: Gadgets

  IT Blog Awards 2010: Gadgets - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2010: Software Development

  IT Blog Awards 2010: Software Development - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2010: IT Twitter User of the Year

  IT Blog Awards 2009: IT Twitter User of the Year - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2010: IT Security

  IT Blog Awards 2010: IT Security - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2010: Best International

  IT Blog Awards 2010: Best International - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2010: CIO / IT Director

  IT Blog Awards 2010: CIO / IT Director - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2010: Company / Corporate - SME

  IT Blog Awards 2010: Company / Corporate - SME - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2010: Individual IT Professional Male

  IT Blog Awards 2010: Individual IT Professional Male - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2010: IT Consultant and Analyst

  IT Blog Awards 2010: IT Consultant and Analyst - category information.  Continue Reading

• VoIP in an IPv6 world: vendors and customers probably aren’t ready

  TechTarget ANZ speaks to James Spenceley, CEO of Vocus, and Geoff Johnson, research VP for enterprise communications at Gartner, about the impact of the coming IPv6 migration on VoIP environments.  Continue Reading

• Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards: Best of show

  The best of show at VMworld Europe 2010 is also the best office virtualisation project, a lab that runs eight virtual ESX hosts and nearly 60 virtual machines on just one physical server.  Continue Reading

• Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards: Private cloud computing

  The top user project in the private cloud computing category used VMware vCloud Director to enable the creation of cloud infrastructure, the first step in a move to a hybrid cloud architecture.  Continue Reading

• Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards: Winners slideshow

  Find out what user projects were voted to be the best in numerous cloud computing and virtualisation categories at VMworld Europe 2010.  Continue Reading

• Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards: Virtualisation and server consolidation

  The best user project in the virtualisation and server consolidation category improved application performance and simplified management.  Continue Reading

• Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards: Remote-office/home-office virtualisation

  The best office virtualisation user project, home or remote, used solid-state drives and nested VMware ESX instances to push beyond VMware technology's official capabilities.  Continue Reading

• Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards: Desktop virtualisation

  The top user project in the desktop virtualisation category utilised a variety of technologies to deliver the virtual desktop stack through various methods, including an array of device access types.  Continue Reading

• Best of VMworld Europe 2010 User Awards: Virtualisation for disaster recovery

  The best virtualisation for disaster recovery user project improved availability and enabled semiannual failover and failback tests.  Continue Reading

• iSCSI SAN: Reliable shared storage without Fibre Channel's costs

  The iSCSI SAN is a block-level shared-storage alternative to Fibre Channel that is becoming increasingly popular among SME organisations.  Continue Reading

• iSCSI implementation: How to design, deploy an iSCSI SAN

  When approaching an iSCSI implementation, you'll need to carefully consider product selection, network design, TCP/IP offload, security/encryption and management.  Continue Reading

• VMworld Europe 2010 conference coverage

  Check out all the latest news, award recaps and other resources from VMworld Europe 2010 at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark.  Continue Reading

• The Daily Data Centre repository for October

  October 2010's highlights include the announcement of a new version of Citrix XenServer and the trends in managed hosting and server virtualisation from analysts at Ovum.  Continue Reading

• Tape encryption lightens backup loads

  Tape encryption leaves processing-heavy encryption tasks until the backup processed has finished and can be the best choice when system scalability is required.  Continue Reading

• Security zone: opinions and insights from experienced professionals

  Information security has become a mainstream concern with well-established governance and compliance, increasing public awareness and more business processes going online. Security is an integral part of every business process. It must be built into...  Continue Reading

• Buyer’s guide to mobile computing: Microsoft Windows Phone 7

  Part two of four As Microsoft prepares to launch Windows Phone 7, Jenny Williams asks if Microsoft's new mobile operating system will be good for business  Continue Reading

• Buyer's Guide to Mobile computing

  Part one of four  Continue Reading

• UK CIOs take on cloud computing

  This four-part series reveals how CIOs in the UK are handling the emerging world of cloud computing.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: What are the risks associated with social-media use, and who owns these risks?

  Is social media a security problem? What are the security risks associated with social-media use, and who owns these risks?  Continue Reading

• The Social Media Awards 2011 in association with IBM - Nominate now!

  Computer Weekly's search for the best voices in IT is back for its fourth year, brought to you in association with IBM, and the 2011 competition promises to be bigger and better than ever. Nominations are now open.  Continue Reading

• Fluid data management cure for storage headache at Galway University Hospitals

  Galway University Hospitals was suffering through serious storage issues, but implementing a virtualised storage solution from Compellent changed everything.  Continue Reading

• Bird & Bird keeps IT flying high with Neverfail

  The infrastructure manager at international law firm Bird & Bird shares how he avoids downtime with Neverfail.  Continue Reading

• The 360IT show 2010 - News, analysis, opinion and videos

  Computer Weekly is offering its readers live coverage from the biggest IT event of the year, the 360IT show at London’s Earl’s Court.  Continue Reading

• How IT departments can manage DIY technology

  Staff in companies are using low-cost accessible technology to connect their customers and innovate. One in three company employees are doing this already, under the radar.  Continue Reading

• How to measure the value of a green IT infrastructure

  Although 'green' slid down the list of priorities during the recession, it has not disappeared completely thanks to the advent of government-driven green initiatives  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2010 - Vote for your favourite blogger

  Computer Weekly’s search for the best blogs in IT is back for its third year, and the 2010 competition, brought to you in association with IBM, promises to be bigger and better than ever.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2010: Charity challenge

  We’re adding a special category for the IT Blog Awards 2010 to raise funds for a fantastic cause. The ultimate measure of the success of a blog is engagement with its audience – so we want to challenge bloggers and Twitter users to show us how they ...  Continue Reading

• Thin provisioning: How it works and its benefits for storage capacity management

  Thin provisioning: In this podcast we hear how thin provisioning works, its key storage capacity management benefits and pitfalls, and how various vendors' thin provisioning offerings can differ from one another.  Continue Reading

• The Daily Data Centre repository for September

  September's editions include IBM abandoning Verne Holding's Icelandic data centre and Novell unveiling SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware.  Continue Reading

• All the news from VMworld 2010

  If you were stuck in the UK, here's everything you missed in San Francisco at VMware's VMworld 2010.  Continue Reading

• Own nothing – control everything: five patterns for securing data on devices you don’t own

  The enterprise security perimeter is quickly dissolving. Everything from company financials and source-code e-mails to unstructured documents and other forms of knowledge are circling outside the enterprise firewall on non-IT-controlled devices.  Continue Reading

• Data storage security: What it is and the key components of a storage security strategy

  Data storage security covers everything from legal compliance through preparation for e-discovery requests to access control and physical security of storage. Find out the key elements of a storage security strategy.  Continue Reading

• Safety first: How to monitor staff legally

  The subject of monitoring employees goes to the heart of the human rights question – the balancing of one person's rights against another's  Continue Reading

• Data centre strategies: Optimising IT infrastructures

  When optimising performance across application and service delivery platforms, especially with virtualisation involved, make sure you have the best data centre strategies in place.  Continue Reading

• Stereoscopic 3D animation: Shrek and How to train your dragon

  Already cutting a fiery swath through the box office, DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon provides an object lesson in just how far stereoscopic 3D animated films have progressed.  Continue Reading

• Buyer's Guide to infrastructure: Three steps to IT reorganisation

  After a year of seeing deep cuts to infrastructure and operations (I&O) budgets, businesses are returning to a growth agenda. Most I&O executives say this is routine. As the vice-president of infrastructure at a large manufacturer summed it up: "I&O...  Continue Reading

• Buyers guide to IT infrastructure

  Best practice in datacentre design dictates that as much IT infrastructure as possible should be virtualised. Doing so improves agility, allowing the IT department to flex resources up and down to meet the demands of the business.  Continue Reading

• Handle conflict situations effectively with pointers from CIOs

  Conflict is essential for growth, so it’s said. We caught with many a leading CIO to learn how you can handle conflict at the workplace.  Continue Reading

• New Royal District Nursing Service CIO considers iPad, Android tablet

  Jodie Rugless, newly-appointed CIO of Melbourne-based Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS), is considering a move away from Windows Mobile and into Android-powered or iPad tablet computers as part of her plans to tele-health, e-health and mobile ...  Continue Reading

• Special report: IT education at GCSE and A-level

  Today's GCSE results confirmed the education system is failing to train young people for a future career in IT.  Continue Reading

• Parade College adpots UTM for network security

  Parade College has replaced a Blue Reef security solution wiht Watchguard's unified threat management products.  Continue Reading

• Adobe Creative Suite 5: an overview

  Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 is vast: 15 core applications covering web design, Flash design and development, print design and publishing, and video production. The previous release was Creative Suite 4 in September 2008. Has Adobe done enough to ...  Continue Reading

• The data centre boom: Finding the right site just got serious

  Our expert poses some basic, but important, tests of potential data centre sites, including location, connectivity and power, that companies should be aware of.  Continue Reading

• Video: What's new in Adobe Creative Suite 5

  Creative Suite 5 comes with a new application called Flash Catalyst, 64-bit versions of Premiere Pro, After Effects and Photoshop, and hundreds of new or improved features in each application. Acrobat 9.0 is the same version as in CS4.  Continue Reading

• Video: Designing and developing with Flash in CS5

  Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 is vast: 15 core applications covering web design, Flash design and development, print design and publishing, and video production. The previous release was Creative Suite 4 in September 2008. Tim Anderson takes a look at ...  Continue Reading

• Interview: David Thomlinson, UK managing director at Accenture

  David Thomlinson, Accenture's UK managing director is in a confident mood. With the recession over, he is seeing business spending money on IT again, and Accenture reporting encouraging financial results.  Continue Reading

• VDI: Venturing toward a virtual world

  A virtualised desktop infrastructure requires solid management capabilities, including understanding capacity planning, and choosing the correct platform, host hardware, and shared storage for your business needs.  Continue Reading

• Case Study: Globe Telecom - Gaining marketing agility with smart promotions

  Globe Telecom needed to reach a new level of agility in the creation and management of promotional service offerings.  Continue Reading

• Virtualised infrastructures in the data centre

  An industry expert discusses the key to a successful management strategy within a virtual infrastructure, including automation and holistic adoption.  Continue Reading

• Storage solution providers: Their pros and cons, and how to manage them

  Storage solution providers can be vital in implementing and supporting storage systems through sickness and health. But be careful how you choose a potential storage reseller partner.  Continue Reading

• Storage resellers: Trust is the key

  Storage resellers must be trustworthy, knowledgeable, well connected to vendors and possess accreditation. Analyst Andrew Buss addresses the key questions to consider when working with a storage reseller.  Continue Reading

• Dealing with data storage resellers: Top 10 tips

  Data storage resellers can range from box shifters to vendor-specific accredited partners. These top 10 tips will help you get what you need from the storage reseller relationship.  Continue Reading

• Plan ahead and sweat your virtual assets

  Firms looking to decrease hardware demands by virtualising should keep a close eye on server growth, costs and workload flows across virtual machines, according to our expert.  Continue Reading