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• IT integration essential for Santander's M&A strategy

  Banco Santander, the euro zone's biggest bank, has been on an acquisition spree over the past five years, helped by a powerful and flexible core banking system.  Continue Reading

• Integration: Choosing a systems integrator

  The systems integrator market has evolved, developing its specialist know-how to meet the changing needs of IT departments and organisations as they operate with tighter IT budgets.  Continue Reading

• Never the twain sums’ digits’ values shall meet

  Tom Marlow will receive £20 for this highly original contribution. Try more puzzlers >>  Continue Reading

• Conundrums pay tribute to a singular digit – number 7

  The required series of six primes in arithmetical progression is 7, 37, 67, 97, 127 and 157. In the second problem, the skeletal sum reconstructs to...  Continue Reading

• Leave the calculator alone to deduce the missing digit

  The key to a speedy solution is to realise that all factorials greater than 5! must be divisible by 9 (because 3 and 6 are factors of 6! and 3x6=18, which...

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• 3 Peaks Challenge: IT teams make a difference

  The CARE International 3 Peaks Challenge is not far off now, but there's still enough time to get involved and help raise money for an excellent cause.  Continue Reading

• IT salary survey: hard first quarter for 2009

  Nick Enticknap There's no getting away from the fact that times have been tough in the first quarter. The computerweekly.co.uk survey of appointments,...  Continue Reading

• HDS, HP ease storage virtualisation

  HP offers to turn DAS into a SAN, thanks to virtualisation, while HDS makes it easier to adopt the practice.  Continue Reading

• Score a century with an improper fraction

  There are ten other mixed fractions of this type equal to 100, but this is the only one which has a single digit as its whole number. Try...  Continue Reading

• ComputerWeekly Quotes - IT Buyers Guides

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• Case study: NYSE readies 800Gbps super fast network

  Stock exchange NYSE Euronext is deploying a 100Gbps network from Ciena as part of its plans to improve bandwidth tenfold and reduce latency in financial...

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• Is the Microsoft public sector deal good value for Britain?

  As the Office of Government Commerce updates its software purchasing deal with Microsoft, we look at the implications and the measures of success  Continue Reading

• Comparison of free anti-virus software with paid-for products

  Now, more than ever, computer users have to be extra vigilant to avoid picking up a dose of something nasty online. In the early 90s, viruses were fairly abundant, but since the commercialisation of malware in the early part of this decade, the ...  Continue Reading

• Securing e-business with web application firewalls

  You have had your network firewall in place for years, and it makes you feel safe. Your ports are all locked down, so that no-one can hack your e-mail or FTP servers. So how is it that the database serving content to your website just got hacked, ...  Continue Reading

• Three vital e-discovery security issues

  It is time the UK's information security professionals got to grips with the role they play in e-discovery projects, the process of locating and providing current and stored electronic records for regulatory compliance and civil or criminal ...  Continue Reading

• Put digits on the heptagon and keep all sides constant

  The constant of 26 is the highest that can be achieved.  Continue Reading

• Case study: Virtualisation at the London Borough of Hillingdon

  Our municipal buildings date back to the 1970s, and use power supplies from the same period. Since moving in there we had simply gone out and bought the...

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• SOA rises through the cloud

  Service oriented architecture (SOA) has reached a reasonable level of maturity, and users are seeing greater returns as their IT systems become more cloud-centric.  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Content Management System (CMS) Sourcing Guide

  A CMS enables a website to control and create their content effectively and efficiently. To help you make the right decision, download our free guide to CMS software.  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Find the best Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Agency

  SEO will help you to maximise your website exposure. Finding a good SEO agency can be difficult, to help you make the right decision, download our free guide to sourcing SEO agencies.  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Corporate Event management Companies

  When it comes to choosing a event management company for your corporate event, the options are vast. To help you make the right decision, download our free guide to sourcing an event management companies.  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Outbound Telemarketing Services

  If you consider undergoing a telemarketing campaign, choosing the right company for your telemarketing will be the crucial part. To help you make the right decision, download our free guide to sourcing a telemarketing service.  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Find the best photocopier for your business needs

  When it comes to choosing an office photocopier, the options are vast. To help you make your decision, download our free guide to buying a photocopier.  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Find the best Document Scanning Service

  Document Scanning is an important part of streamlining and modernising business activities. Download our free sourcing guide to document scanning services  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Find the best online marketing company for your business needs

  A good online marketing project will help you to effectively promote your products and services to the online community. When it comes to choosing an online marketing company, the options are vast so to help you make the right decision, download our...  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Find the best Flash Designer for your business needs

  When it comes to choosing a Flash designer, the options are vast. To help you make the right decision, download our free guide to sourcing Flash design companies.  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Find the best software development company for your business needs

  When it comes to choosing a software development company, the options are vast. To help you make the right decision, download our free guide to sourcing a software development company.  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Find Ecommerce Website Design Companies

  Ecommerce – buying and selling goods and services online – is one of the biggest uses of the internet. Download our free guide to sourcing Ecommerce website suppliers.  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Sourcing graphic designers for your business needs

  When it comes to choosing a graphic designer, the options are vast. To help you make the right decision, download our free guide to sourcing a graphic designer.  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Find the best Web Developer for your business needs

  When it comes to choosing a web developer, the options are vast. To help you make the right decision, download our free guide to sourcing web developers.  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Source the best database development company for your business

  When it comes to choosing a database development company, the options are vast. To help you make the right decision, download our free guide to sourcing a database developer. Or if you already know what your database requirements are, get free no ...  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Find the best IT System Support for your business needs

  Choosing the right IT system support, is difficult. Download our free guide to sourcing an IT support service.  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software

  With the right CRM software managing customer relations doesn’t have to be a minefield. To help you make the right decision, download our free guide to CRM software. Or if you already know what your CRM software requirements are, get free no ...  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Find the best Web Designer for your business needs

  When it comes to choosing a web designer, the options are vast. To help you make the right decision, download our free guide to sourcing web developers.  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Find video production services for your business needs

  When it comes to choosing a video production company, the options are vast. To help you make the right decision, download our free guide to sourcing corporate video production services.  Continue Reading

• Get Quotes: Find the best Business Telephone System

  When it comes to choosing a business telephone system, the options are vast. To help you make your decision, download our free guide to buying a phone system.  Continue Reading

• Find the value of the letters to solve the double sum

  Surely A can not be more than 2, because H must inevitably be as high as 8 or 9. So a good starting point for our analysis would be A=1 and H=9. This...  Continue Reading

• Infosecurity Europe 2009: News, interviews and updates

  Infosecurity Europe 2009 has begun. SearchSecurity.co.uk is on the conference floor, providing the latest news and updates from London.  Continue Reading

• Features list: June 2009 - IT Integration

  Mobile integration; The Abbey story; Case study; Business Process Management; Where is SOA going?; System Integrators.  Continue Reading

• Mitigate against inevitable smartphone losses

  Whatever else you do, "Assume your smartphone will be lost or stolen and plan accordingly," says David Porter, head of security and risk at Detica consultancy.  Continue Reading

• Stamp out data loss

  Data loss prevention (DLP) technology has plenty of hype blowing its sails, but it is also being carried along by a serious undercurrent. Organisations have no choice but to follow its drift - they have to take it seriously. UK watchdogs the ...  Continue Reading

• How to handle IT security as XP goes into Extended Support

  Microsoft has ended mainstream support for all flavours of Windows XP, including Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.  Continue Reading

• Video: What is the next stage of development for the IT industry

  What is the next stage of development for the IT industry?  Continue Reading

• Reconfigure the digits to find another progression

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• Case study: SABMiller revamps supply chain management

  SABMilller, the $24bn global brewing giant, is revamping its supply chain management system to reduce stock-outs caused by an increasingly complex and hard to predict market.  Continue Reading

• Driving innovation with joined up thinking

  The hint of a better economic outlook may generate more business cases for collaboration to harness global business intellect and spur innovation.  Continue Reading

• IT at biology’s frontiers

  In less than 10 years IT has gone from being a valuable tool for life sciences to being at the heart of some of the most important research projects ever undertaken.  Continue Reading

• How IT staff can help victims of war-time violence

  The CARE International Three Peaks Challenge, in association with Computer Weekly, is quickly approaching and the charity is urging teams to sign up while they still have plenty of time for fundraising and training.  Continue Reading

• Businesses wary of social media adoption

  Businesses are wary of social networks, with security issues and lack of control over content causing managers the most concern.  Continue Reading

• Infosec 2009 - Essential Guide

  Infosec 2009 - or Infosecurity Europe 2009 as it is officially known - is being held at its new venue at Earl's Court in London from 28 April - 30 April 2009.  Continue Reading

• Cloud computing: The answer to supply chain woes

  The adoption of cloud computing services in a supply chain context will mirror the former uptake patterns of on-premise enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. This means that such offerings are unlikely to be used to support non-commodity, ...  Continue Reading

• Cloud Computing: cloud is good news for small companies

  The grand vision of cloud computing, which promises an end to the stress and cost of supporting internal applications, took a dent in February. The leading proponent of cloud computing, and standard-bearer for the post-dot.com internet, suffered an ...  Continue Reading

• Infosec 2009: the human side of security

  Cybercrime and data breaches have grabbed the headlines in the past year, but it is people and their role in preventing these that will dominate Infosecurity Europe 2009.  Continue Reading

• Separate the triplet digits by their numerical value

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  When setting this problem, it was necessary to highlight the three positions of one of the nine digits, because otherwise...

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• Job losses need not lead to data loss

  Although your own staff have always posed the greatest danger to your organisation's IT security, the downturn is raising the threat to new levels.  Continue Reading

• Features list: May 2009 - Infosec

  Strategies that lock-down IT do not the way users want to work. How is the role of IT security changing? What is the future threat landscape and how can IT security be made more agile?  Continue Reading

• Hotskills: ASP.Net Ajax for developers

  ASP.Net Ajax skills, training and salary information details for developers.  Continue Reading

• Hotskills: ASP.Net developer skills

  ASP.Net skills, training and salary information details for developers.  Continue Reading

• CIO Profile: Sharon Bevis-Hoover, Coca Cola

  Sharon Bevis-Hoover is not fazed by the fact that she is starting her new job as director of IT transformation at Coca-Cola on 1 April. As London-based Europe Group CIO for the world's most famous drinks maker since 2007, she has already proved she ...  Continue Reading

• How mobile phones support healthcare in the developing world

  Healthcare is set to be revolutionised in developing countries by mobile technology, with mobile phones being generally affordable and more accessible to the population at large  Continue Reading

• Hardware Hoarders photo competition: terms and conditions

  Mobile working photo competition terms and conditions  Continue Reading

• Renault F1: supercomputer simulation prepares team for Australian GP

  Murray Walker, the veteran Formula One (F1) commentator once said, "There are a lot of ifs in Formula One. In fact, if is F1 backwards." And the key if is "if only the car could go faster".  Continue Reading

• The technical challenges holding back cloud computing

  While companies try to solve cloud computing issues the market remains some way off maturity, writes Danny Bradbury  Continue Reading

• Renault F1: Supercomputer Part 3

  Murray Walker, the veteran Formula One (F1) commentator once said, "There are a lot of ifs in Formula One. In fact, if is F1 backwards." And the key if is "if only the car could go faster".  Continue Reading

• Renault F1: Supercomputer Part 2

  Murray Walker, the veteran Formula One (F1) commentator once said, "There are a lot of ifs in Formula One. In fact, if is F1 backwards." And the key if is "if only the car could go faster".  Continue Reading

• Hardware as a Service

  Putting your trust in another company to supply your computing needs remotely over the internet sounds daunting but managed well it can show benefits.  Continue Reading

• Competition: Play our F1 racing game and win a Silverstone driving experience!

  To celebrate the 2009 F1 season ComputerWeekly.com ran a competition to win the chance to drive an F1 car around Silverstone. The competition's now closed but you can still play our F1 racing game for fun.  Continue Reading

• Driving blind? IT dashboards, instruments and controls

  For a technically astute department, IT can sometimes struggle with metrics, performance indicators, management dashboards or balanced scorecards. They are known by many different names and the business of managing IT becomes so much more difficult ...  Continue Reading

• Building the London Olympics

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  by Peter Bartram

  The voice on the phone was both vague and insistent. Headhunters work that way. "Our client is looking...

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• Tackling IT security during the recession

  Staying true to the real risks facing organisations is not easy for infosecurity managers, especially with a mountain of diversions competing for their hearts. Even covering the basics is not as straightforward as it should be.  Continue Reading

• Tackle internal fraud

  Although hackers and phishing attacks make the headlines, almost 78% of fraud by individuals against UK organisations is committed by employees.  Continue Reading

• Deduce the location of the remaining domino tiles

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• Plan B Disaster Recovery lowers the cost of business continuity

  Most users must have had one of those bad PC days, when you arrive at work enthused to complete a task, only to end up spending the day waiting for IT to fix your newly broken PC, or in a small business often doing it yourself.  Continue Reading

• Ada Lovelace Day - raising awareness of women's achievements in IT

  Not many people will have heard of Ada Lovelace , and perhaps even fewer would associate her with...  Continue Reading

• Podcast: Impact of virtualized servers on storage

  Andrew McCreath, virtualisation practice lead at GlassHouse Technologies in the U.K., examines the impact of virtualised server environments on storage and backup.  Continue Reading

• Service-oriented architecture in and beyond the credit crunch

  There has been much debate recently over the fate of "service-oriented architecture" (SOA).  Continue Reading

• Break the product down into factors summing to 100

  Obviously none of the smaller integers will be unity. Then if we compare a series of 2s and 3s, it will soon be clear that 3s would be better: For example,...  Continue Reading

• Robin Laidlaw: CIO lessons from the CW500 Club

  As he steps down as president of the exclusive CW 500 Club for senior IT directors, former British Gas CIO Robin Laidlaw shares his insights on the challenges and opportunities facing the IT industry  Continue Reading

• Virtualisation: security benefits

  Securing virtual environments may be challenging, but...  Continue Reading

• Security zone: untangle complexity

  Since early viruses were created (often transmitted by floppy disk) there has been an ever escalating challenge for those working in security to keep data and resources safe. This "war" is characterised by increasing technology on both sides of the ...  Continue Reading

• Fashion a square to house all nine prime numbers

  We know of course that the perimeter digits must always be chosen from the set 1,3,7 and 9, since all primes end this way. Here is Tom's solution: The...  Continue Reading

• Web celebrates its 20th birthday

  It was 13 March 1989 when Tim Berners-Lee, working at Cern in Geneva, came up with the concept that became the worldwide web. On that day, Berners-Lee presented his visionary paper on a simple mechanism for allowing the particle physics research ...  Continue Reading

• Northern Ireland Civil Service pilots virtualisation

  Before embarking on a full-blown virtualisation roll-out, many organisations try a small pilot first.  Continue Reading

• How to do a BPM initiative

  Business process management can offer organisations the opportunity to stimulate, design and deliver business transformation on an ongoing, repeatable basis. Since business process management (BPM) typically makes an impact on the whole organisation...  Continue Reading

• Special Report: Digital Britain

  The British government is wrestling with the practical implications of the switch of many technologies from analogue to digital operation and distribution.  Continue Reading

• Technology enables mobile typing pool

  There is an advert currently running on TV from a well-known computer company showing people in various jobs saying 'I am a PC'.  Continue Reading

• Number 4 leads the way in decyphering cryptarithm

  Digit C cannot be greater than 2, because then a minimum sum - such as 31 x 425 - would produce a five-digit answer. This knowledge, combined with the known...  Continue Reading

• Why Digital Britain needs a boost

  When communications minister Stephen Carter published his Digital Britain interim report in late January, the UK joined a process that has been going on in Europe for at least five years, and one of which most Britons are unaware.  Continue Reading

• Features list: April 2009 - Cloud computing

  Cloud computing changes the economics of piloting and running new IT projects, given that 80% of IT budgets are spent on maintaining existing IT systems. How can you best make use of cloud services in 2009?  Continue Reading

• The virtualisation threat

  Virtualisation may have proved its mettle in terms of lowering costs and improving efficiency, but fail to consider the security implications and you could...  Continue Reading

• CeBIT 2009 - Latest News

  CeBIT 2009 in Hannover Germany opens on March 3-8. Find the latest news, developments and pictures. You will also find directions, exhibitor list and an agenda. The featured themes this year are Webciety and green IT.  Continue Reading

• Securing the mobile enterprise Executive Overview

  How to reduce the security risk to business assets when deploying mobile technologies  Continue Reading

• Charities need donations of IT skills

  The number of opportunities for IT workers to donate their skills to a good cause is growing  Continue Reading

• Outsourcing can offer good returns

  IT outsourcing has proved disappointing for many companies, but good management can turn it into a success  Continue Reading

• Case study: Jaeger uses data mining to reduce losses from crime and waste

  Leg of lamb is the most stolen item at Iceland. Thieves also like cheese, bacon and coffee. With the UK in recession, shoplifters appear to be switching...  Continue Reading

• Unified Storage FAQ

  Unified storage is a storage system that's defined as being able to provide storage access at block level and file level. Check out this FAQ interview to find out more. Our UK Bureau Chief Antony Adshead talks with Andrew White, senior consultant ...  Continue Reading

• A succesful virtualisation strategy needs strong discipline

  Companies are buying virtualisation in a bid to make their operation more efficient.  Continue Reading

• Virtualisation: cost and licensing issues

  Virtualisation brings the promise of cost reductions though IT consolidation and the efficient use of resources.  Continue Reading

• Square consecutive primes to sum line-total primes

  The key move is to realise that 59 will have to go into the central cell. Go to the homepage...  Continue Reading

• Security zone: prepare for quantum computing

  Two developments with the potential to affect current uses of cryptography have emerged from study of the quantum behaviour of materials in the past 30 years.  Continue Reading