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• BCS: Cost of support outweighs the benefits

  Why is corporate adoption of the trusted computing standard still very low when over 70% of new computing devices have built-in trusted platform modules (TPMs)?  Continue Reading

• ISSA UK: ‘Treacherous Computing’ can constrain legitimate software

  Why is corporate adoption of the trusted computing standard still very low when over 70% of new computing devices have built-in trusted platform modules (TPMs)?  Continue Reading

• (ISC)2: Users resist limits imposed on their freedom

  Why is corporate adoption of the trusted computing standard still very low when over 70% of new computing devices have built-in trusted platform modules (TPMs)?  Continue Reading

• Unified communications: Pushing your organisation to even greater heights

  IT and communications systems are evolving rapidly in order to offer users the fastest and most efficient tools to do their jobs. Yet these jobs themselves are just as challenging as ever, if not more so. Today’s increasing business pressures and ...  Continue Reading

• Constructing an IT policy for Generation Y

  As technology providers and enterprises study Generation Y and its appetite for advanced technology, CIOs would be well advised to evaluate technologies on their merits, rather than trying to second guess what this future generation of employees ...  Continue Reading

• Three technologies that will reshape desktop computing

  With the Intel Developer Forum behind it, Intel reported third-quarter revenue of $9.4bn, beating analysts' expectations. The company reported operating...

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• Examining new features in storage-area network (SAN) technology

  Ian Lock of GlassHouse Technologies discusses the newest features in storage-area network (SAN) technologies, including data deduplication, thin provisioning and storage tiering.  Continue Reading

• CIO Profile: Joe Harley, Department of Work and Pensions

  Few IT professionals will have been tested as much during the recession as Joe Harley, IT director general and CIO at the Department for Work and Pensions.  Continue Reading

• Case Study: How the Met Office supercomputer offsets its carbon footprint

  When the Met Office's latest £30m supercomputer was switched on in May it drew a fair amount of criticism, and a cloud of suspicion has hung over the organisation's Exeter-based headquarters ever since. Isn't it odd, critics asked, that an ...  Continue Reading

• The EU Telecoms Package explained: Europe stumbles on net neutrality

  Should an internet service provider (ISP) be allowed to block, prioritise or degrade network traffic?

  This issue, otherwise known as...

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• Top five issues in managing unpopular change

  The insidious phrase "headcount reduction" hangs over many business transformation projects like an executioner with a fake tan. Management-speak can't hide the fact that "seeking efficiency improvements through new technology" often translates into...  Continue Reading

• MS Office 2010: what are your options?

  Microsoft Office 2010 is due out in the first half of next year, leading organisations to ask, once again, whether they should stay with the familiar Office suite or opt for an alternative.  Continue Reading

• Structures are a diamond's (and other crystal's) best friend!

  CRYSTALS are objects of profound mystery. That's not because they channel occult energies, or hold misty hints of the future in their limpid depths. Their puzzle is much more prosaic: why are they as they are?  Continue Reading

• The future of digital cameras - memory is the new iris?

  How can image sensors - the most complicated and expensive part of a digital camera - be made cheaper and less complex? Easy: take the lid off a memory chip and use that instead.  Continue Reading

• Shy moon gives up its secrets in a plume

  The first image of lunar material raised by the impact of NASA's LCROSS mission has been released, a week after the impact occurred. It was taken by a spacecraft trailing behind the impactor, whose bird's-eye view allowed it to see what has so far ...  Continue Reading

• E-paper - soon to be of many colours - and video!

  WITH the international launch of Amazon's Kindle reader this week, perhaps electronic books will become the must-have present this year. But even as we unwrap our shiny new e-readers, we may be forgiven for wondering how long it will be before the ...  Continue Reading

• The mediscanner age is upon us

  INTEL's latest microchip technology has created transistors 22 nanometres wide - a mere 200 times the width of a hydrogen molecule. Carving such tiny features is devilishly difficult and expensive, but in another realm of microchips altogether, ...  Continue Reading

• All crash and no plume: Moon crash debris mystery

  In the final minutes of its plunge toward the moon, NASA's LCROSS spacecraft spotted the brief infrared flash of a rocket booster hitting the lunar surface just ahead of it – and it even saw heat from the crater formed by the impact. But scientists ...  Continue Reading

• Windows 7 - A comprehensive guide

  Windows 7 is the latest operating system from Microsoft. Windows 7 follows Vista and Microsoft’s new OS could well be its best yet.  Continue Reading

• Black hole created on Earth

  An electromagnetic "black hole" that sucks in surrounding light has been built for the first time.  Continue Reading

• Forensic mobile phone work reveals threat to all of us

  There are certain things you do not want to share with strangers. In my case it was a stream of highly personal text messages from my husband, sent during the early days of our relationship. Etched on my phone's SIM card - but invisible on my ...  Continue Reading

• How to write an online code of conduct for employees

  When you give your employees internet access, you give them a resource that has the potential to deliver enormous business benefits. But it also has enormous potential to be misused and, in some instances, that misuse can be damaging for the business  Continue Reading

• Strategy clinic: How do I overcome resistance to change?

  Industry experts answer a reader's question about implementing change despite resistance from staff.  Continue Reading

• Video: US demonstrates guided laser

  Defence giant Boeing has released video of its Advanced Tactical Laser being fired from an aircraft at a (stationary) vehicle. You can download three videos of the event or watch two of them on YouTube.  Continue Reading

• VMware: five biggest challenges of server virtualisation

  Although the benefits of virtualising x86 servers have been pushed relentlessly for the past five years or so, much less discussed have been the challenges involved in moving to a world where resources are pooled and everything is linked.  Continue Reading

• A guide to Fibre Channel over Ethernet

  Can Fibre Channel over Ethernet offer the reliability and resilience of storage area networks at a fraction of the cost?  Continue Reading

• How to resell old storage when you upgrade

  Reselling old storage devices when upgrading to newer platforms can be a complex issue, particularly when it comes to the content stored on it.  Continue Reading

• Features: Desktop Computing (November 2009)

  Content synopses and information about the storage features that will run through November 2009 at Computer Weekly.  Continue Reading

• Top five data security travel issues: Protect sensitive information on business trips

  Overseas travel is part and parcel of modern business life, but with data security hazards including the loss or theft of equipment, spyware on PCs in hotels and airports, data theft through WiFi and border or customs officials, (particularly in ...  Continue Reading

• Interview: Accenture boss David Thomlinson puts one foot in tomorrow

  From civil engineering through social engineering, Accenture's UK managing director David Thomlinson has been part of some major projects in his time.  Continue Reading

• Indian Enterprise IT Strategy Advice

  Welcome to SearchCIO.in's strategic advice -- a collection of insights from the brightest minds in the Indian IT market.  Continue Reading

• Reliance Capital's DRM and DLP team up for data protection

  Skillfully sculpted document rights management (DRM) and data loss prevention (DLP) implementations help Reliance Capital battle growing data loss risks.  Continue Reading

• Defining and delivering green IT: a manager's guide

  You cannot measure energy consumption unless one is clear about precisely what one is measuring. On one level all IT is "green" because, it saves energy...

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• What is Google Wave? - Essential Guide

  Google Wave promises to revolutionise how we communicate and work together by incorporporating email, instant messaging (IM), wiki, online documents, file sharing, chat rooms, networking and gadgets. But what is it and what does it mean for you?  Continue Reading

• Mahindra & Mahindra's server virtualization success story

  M&M overcame many deployment challenges to harness VMware server virtualization technology for maximal server utilization and cost reduction.  Continue Reading

• Cosmic rays teem in as solar shields falter

  Our solar system's natural shields are faltering, letting in a flood of cosmic rays. The sun's recent listlessness is resulting in record-high radiation levels hazardous to human and robotic space missions.  Continue Reading

• Never know your opponent: Gamers more aggressive to strangers

  Victorious gamers enjoy a surge of testosterone – but only if their vanquished foe is a stranger. When male gamers beat friends in a shoot-em-up video game, levels of the potent sex hormone plummeted.  Continue Reading

• How to recycle your IT responsibly

  Businesses can either recycle or refurbish old IT. Refurbishing allows organisations to sell their IT on to a third party, which can often cover the refurbishment costs.  Continue Reading

• The security implications of green IT

  Green IT has gone mainstream. The past year has seen corporations such as Citigroup establishing their environmental credentials by opening green datacentres. But how do the separate disciplines of green IT and information security come together?  Continue Reading

• Benefits and limitations of MAID storage: A step toward a green data centre

  MAID storage technology significantly reduces power consumption and prolongs the lives of disk drives. Find out the benefits and limitations of MAID technology.  Continue Reading

• Content monitoring breaks 10gpbs barrier

  Researchers at Queens University in Belfast are working on a content filtering system capable of scanning internet traffic at more than 10 gigabits per...

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• Managing a service business in a down economy

  In the current climate, service organizations need to have ultimate customer satisfaction and retention. From your customers perspective this means the right person turning up, with the right tools and at the right time.  Continue Reading

• Explaining RAID levels and RAID data protection

  We've compiled our RAID content to help storage pros determine where to implement RAID, decide which levels address their particular needs and how to increase RAID data protection.  Continue Reading

• US infrastructure reveals more than Route 66

  The US road network of the is one of the largest human-made constructions on Earth. The 4 million mapped roads take up about 1 per cent of the nation's land area – about the size of South Carolina. So what would a country look like if the only ...  Continue Reading

• Our Moon: not the holiday hotspot we were hoping for

  Poor Pluto. First it gets kicked out of the planet club, now it can no longer claim to be the coldest place in the solar system. Dark craters near the moon's south pole have snatched that title – which is good news for the prospects of finding water...  Continue Reading

• Top four government data collection issues

  Since September 11 2001, the volumes of information collected by counter terrorism and law enforcement agencies, and countless organisations on their behalf, has grown by several orders of magnitude.  Continue Reading

• Five approaches to cloud storage

  Cloud computing may be the hot topic of the moment, but what about the services that are available today? Steve Gold did his homework and discovered a world of options that are available...  Continue Reading

• Case study: Businesses benefit from consolidation

  Consolidation helps businesses lower the cost of IT management by reducing the number of physical servers, desktop PCs and network infrastructures that must be supported.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2009: Project Management

  IT Blog Awards 2009: Project Management - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2009: Open Source

  IT Blog Awards 2009: Open Source - category information.  Continue Reading

• Smart implants could ease Parkinson's disease

  Implants in the brains of people with neurological disorders could help in developing treatments for people with Parkinson's disease, obsessive compulsive disorder and depression.  Continue Reading

• Shockingly easy to take down the US power grid

  Predicting how rumours and epidemics percolate through populations, or how traffic jams spread through city streets, are network analyst Jian-Wei Wang's bread and butter. But his latest findings are likely to spark worries in the US: he's worked out...  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2009: Individual IT Professional Female

  IT Blog Awards 2009: Individual IT Professional Female - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2009: CIO / IT Director

  IT Blog Awards 2009: CIO / IT Director - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2009: IT Twitter User of the Year

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

• IT Blog Awards 2009: IT Security

  IT Blog Awards 2009: IT Security - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2009: IT Consultant and Analyst

  IT Blog Awards 2009: IT Consultant and Analyst - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2009: Individual IT Professional Male

  IT Blog Awards 2009: Individual IT Professional Male - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2009: Company / Corporate - Large Enterprise

  IT Blog Awards 2009: Company / Corporate - Large Enterprise - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2009: Company / Corporate - SME

  IT Blog Awards 2009: Company / Corporate - SME - category information.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2009: Sustainable IT

  IT Blog Awards 2009: Sustainable IT - category information.  Continue Reading

• New improved Hubble spies a whole new celestial treasure trove

  The new and improved Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a dragon-shaped cosmic mirage and other celestial wonders, showing it is working better than ever following its latest repairs in May.  Continue Reading

• Black holes outperform earth-bound particle colliders

  One day our descendants will reach the limit of particle accelerator technology. We'll surely run out of space and money long before the smallest building blocks of the universe can be probed with machines, because of the massive energies required.  Continue Reading

• Moon sings to a different tune with meteor impacts

  A steady barrage of small meteorite impacts on the moon should cause it to "ring", but no seismometers sent there have been sensitive enough to hear it. So Philippe Lognonné at the Institute of Earth Physics of Paris and colleagues decided to work ...  Continue Reading

• Plugging the mainframe skills gap

  Mainframe blogger Trevor Eddolls, managing director of iTech-Ed, started working on mainframes in 1979, and now runs the Virtual IMS Connection mainframe user group. He says, "In the 60s, 70s and 80s, the mainframe was the place to be. Previously ...  Continue Reading

• IBM lowers mainframe costs with specialty processors

  Since mainframe software is charged based on the usage of the core mainframe processor, IBM has developed "specialty" processors, which provide a way for...  Continue Reading

• Is the time right for a mainframe renaissance?

  Every few years, industry pundits predict the death of the mainframe. But these big iron systems, represent the IT lifeblood of major enterprises. Far from being killed off, the mainframe is being re-incarnated as a modern system for internet ...  Continue Reading

• Data center infrastructure: In-house hosting versus outsourcing

  Selection between in-house hosting and data center colocation is a complex decision for Indian organizations. What is the right infrastructure call?  Continue Reading

• Slimebot: programming the single-cell organism

  A team at the University of the West of England (UWE) has secured £228,000 in funding to turn single-cell organisms into engineering robots.  Continue Reading

• SearchCIO.in Advisory Board

  Meet the IT leaders who are helping to guide our website and its content.  Continue Reading

• Video: Pneumatic chip runs on thin air

  The latest in a long line of weird computers runs calculations on nothing more than air.  Continue Reading

• How tech staff helped saved lives in Iraq

  Nearly six-and-a-half years ago, IT engineers were among the first of the armed forces to arrive in Iraq when the war started. They were also among the...  Continue Reading

• Quantum maths on a silicon chip

  A quantum calculation able to crack one of the most common forms of data encryption has been performed on a silicon chip for the first time.  Continue Reading

• Wi-Fi weighs in as cost cutter for airlines

  Shedding pounds isn't just a preoccupation of dieters, it is a prime concern for aircraft builders too. In a bid to reduce weight to the minimum they are considering the controversial move of getting rid of the huge quantity of copper wiring used in...  Continue Reading

• Keep the coins in the matrix out of line with their opposites

  This the only possible layout, not counting reflections and rotations. Try more Puzzlers >>  Continue Reading

• Green IT: Software for counting carbon and controlling costs

  Reports early in 2009 about the ICT sector's carbon dioxide emissions must have caused embarrassment to senior board members. In one case, it was suggested that a North American datacentre belonging to a major search engine might need as much power ...  Continue Reading

• Top interviewing tips: Part 6 - how to handle aggressive interviewers

  When the going gets tough in an interview you need to have your wits about you and deal calmly and confidently with negative issues and sensitive subjects such as gaps on your CV or salary expectations.  Continue Reading

• Lionbridge's IP SAN-powered storage strategy for content services

  Content services provider Lionbridge opted for an IP storage area network (SAN) in its Mumbai data center to overcome file server management complexity.  Continue Reading

• The DAS-to-SAN business-growth formula at Cafe Coffee Day

  A look at how data growth and business needs led the direct-attached storage (DAS)-to-storage area network (SAN) migration project at Cafe Coffee Day.  Continue Reading

• Features: Storage (October 2009)

  Content synopses and information about the storage features that will run through October 2009 at Computer Weekly.  Continue Reading

• Radiation-based medical testing gives huge dose

  X-rays and CT scans expose a minority of Americans to radiation levels comparable to working in a nuclear power plant. Are such scans worth it?  Continue Reading

• Neon makes IBM z-series glow

  Neon Enterprise Software has been providing software to the mainframe markets to optimise systems management, application and database performance since 1995.  Continue Reading

• SMI-S storage standard breaks supplier lock-in

  There is work to be done, but the Storage Management Initiative - Specification (SMI-S) standard promises best-of-breed storage systems, easily provisioned by informed users.  Continue Reading

• Indian lunar probe: broken in under a year

  India's first lunar probe has lost contact with Earth, and the mission has been declared over more than a year earlier than intended. It is not yet clear what caused the communications failure, but mission members suspect it was exacerbated by the ...  Continue Reading

• Little brother of the LHC could come up with the answers first

  With the Large Hadron Collider still in the repair shop, the race to find the Higgs boson particle has become a lot tighter, thanks to the older and less powerful - but nonetheless working - Tevatron collider near Chicago.  Continue Reading

• AI is a dream we shouldn't be having

  Robotics expert Noel Sharkey used to be a believer in artificial intelligence, but now thinks AI is a dangerous myth that could lead to a dystopian future of unintelligent, unfeeling robot carers and soldiers.  Continue Reading

• Empower the business with Unified Communications

  Today’s increasing business pressures are obliging organisations to deal with changes in economic circumstances, changes in business methodologies and changes in the places in which they do business.  Continue Reading

• Guess that kit competition: Terms and conditions

  Terms and conditions for our Guess that kit competition, closing date 30th September 2009.  Continue Reading

• Puzzles from Computer Weekly's Puzzler

  Maths puzzles from Computer Weekly's maths puzzle column.  Continue Reading

• Overcoming succession planning challenges

  India's explosive growth has created a lot of opportunity for rising IT managers to find new jobs elsewhere. Three CIOs offer advice for creating a succession planning strategy that paves a path for top internal talent.  Continue Reading

• Beagle 2 did not crash and burn

  What happened to the UK's Beagle 2 Mars probe on Christmas Day 2003 is once more unclear.  Continue Reading

• Help find a planet: Adopt a star

  Hard-up astronomers are raising funds for research by selling the only wares they have: the stars.  Continue Reading

• Download free text to PDF converter: Zilla TXT To PDF Converter

  The Zilla TXT To PDF Converter converts PDFs to Word, RTF, Text, HTML, BMP, JPG, TIF, GIF, PNG and SWF.  Continue Reading

• Oldest computer predates Christ

  From Swiss Army knives to iPhones, it seems we just love fancy gadgets with as many different functions as possible. And judging from the ancient Greek Antikythera...

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• Public service IT faces budget challenges

  It is going to be a very difficult time for local government in the years ahead, writes Simon Moores, Conservative district councillor for Westgate-on Sea.

  I...

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• Download free doubleTwist media converter

  doubleTwist is a new social networking multi-platform media management tool where you can share music and video between your Nintendo DS/DSi, PSP, Blackberry, Palm, iPhone and over 100 other devices.You can even publish a video to YouTube, upload ...  Continue Reading

• Expert advice on top interviewing tips

  Lisa Jobson, director of talent at Harvey Nash, gives top tips for landing a job.  Continue Reading

• Linux server migration next on Usha Martin's open-source roadmap

  With desktop migration from Windows to Linux complete, the manufacturer has now set its sights on switching server platforms.  Continue Reading

• A trawl through the archive reveals a minimum trio of squares

  The minimum Barnetson triad is: 17, 32 and 32, producing the respective squares of 49, 49 and 64.

  Paul, who died last year, was a well-known computer...

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• Can the IT department survive Web 2.0?

  Risk-averse IT departments that are too cautious in their approach to Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking, online applications and cloud computing could be signing their own death warrants.  Continue Reading