March 2011

• March 21, 2011 21 Mar'11

  Open sesame. Government to simplify ICT procurement

  The Government is to ensure that small firms and organisations are no longer shut out of its procurement processes because of "excessive bureaucracy and petty regulation". Further, procurement opportunities will be available for everyone to see, ...  Continue Reading

• March 20, 2011 20 Mar'11

  Traditional tokens handed death sentence

  Few technologies have stood the test of time as well as physical tokens, but they're not perfect. The fact is there's a number of issues with their utilisation, some of which have been around since their introduction 30 years ago.  Continue Reading

• March 18, 2011 18 Mar'11

  Apple faces exodus of customers over 'gay conversion' app

  Apple's app store has been very successful - the recently launched Mac app store has also been doing very nicely thank you - but the company has found itself in a number of compromising positions over how it decides which apps can go into the store ...  Continue Reading

• March 18, 2011 18 Mar'11

  Recycling company fined for illegal exportation of e-waste

  An electrical recycling company faces prosecution costs of £8,200 for illegally shipping old computers and electrical waste to Afghanistan, writes Jenny Williams.  Continue Reading

• March 18, 2011 18 Mar'11

  Cisco should buy EMC if only to save it from Oracle

  As vendors such as Cisco, Dell, HP and IBM plough headlong into the data centre like runaway trains, the industry is seeing a growing number of bidding wars for storage networking companies.  Continue Reading

• March 18, 2011 18 Mar'11

  Banks need to simplify lending process to ease credit flow

  With the budget just five days away the Chancellor has been called on to do more to ease small business lending to free up credit and access to funds for struggling SMEs.  Continue Reading

• March 18, 2011 18 Mar'11

  Computacenter underwrites IT cost savings in VDC sales push

  Computacenter (CC) is trying to convince hard pressed CIOs to deploy its Virtual Data Centre by underwriting the IT cost savings.  Continue Reading

• March 18, 2011 18 Mar'11

  RSA reveals its servers have been hacked

  Security companies are constantly the focus of attacks but rarely do they suffer a breach as embarrassing as the one RSA has had to admit to.  Continue Reading

• March 18, 2011 18 Mar'11

  Corero sales down at end of tumultuous year

  Network security and BPM outfit Corero has turned in full-year sales of £4m, down 18% on 2009, and reversed a full-year loss of £176,000 to post total comprehensive income of £404,000.  Continue Reading

• March 18, 2011 18 Mar'11

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 18 March 2011

  Japanese earthquake to disrupt IT component supply In the wake of the 11 March earthquake that struck the north-east coast of Japan, analysts were quick to warn of potentially major disruption to the IT component supply chain.  Continue Reading

• March 18, 2011 18 Mar'11

  On yer bike

  The Office of Tax Simplification, a Quango created by the Coalition Government last year to look into simplifying the tax regimes that business and citizens endure, has now presented its findings to the Chancellor. A formal response is expected in ...  Continue Reading

• March 17, 2011 17 Mar'11

  Microsoft admits LAR fee cuts may lead to consolidation

  Microsoft has defended the fundamental changes to LARs fees being implemented in the autumn but admitted that the overhaul may result in partner consolidation.  Continue Reading

• March 17, 2011 17 Mar'11

  Despite spam dip security channel has to continue education

  The dip in spam activity over the last few months might have given customers the idea that the fight against the malicious inbox blocking emails has been won.  Continue Reading

• March 17, 2011 17 Mar'11

  Is predictive analytics for the future of BI?

  Information Builders Business intelligence (BI) projects remain a priority for many organisations.  Continue Reading

• March 17, 2011 17 Mar'11

  Hosted comms market lacks coherent distribution model

  The revenue share of hosted communications services will soon be nipping at the heels of the on-premise model when it comes to enterprise comms deployments, according to new research from analysts at Frost and Sullivan, but lacks a coherent channel ...  Continue Reading

• March 17, 2011 17 Mar'11

  ScanSource is on the road to Hull

  Avaya, Panasonic and ShoreTel distie ScanSource is expanding its UK footprint into the north of England with the addition of a demo and training centre at its branch office in Hull, which 'til now had dealt with the firm's barcode contracts.  Continue Reading

• March 17, 2011 17 Mar'11

  Resellers get on Dell's KACE

  A number of resellers have signed up as Dell KACE Certified partners in the UK to expand their formal relationship with the Texan tech titan's systems management business.  Continue Reading

• March 17, 2011 17 Mar'11

  Websense shares rise after sale talk

  Websense could be getting closer to selling itself after it emerged the vendor had turned to acquisition advisors to steer it through a sale process.  Continue Reading

• March 17, 2011 17 Mar'11

  Logicalis acquires Inca Software for £8.65m

  Logical is forking out £8.65m to acquire the UK's largest IBM Cognos reseller Inca Software as it makes a play for the business analytics market.  Continue Reading

• March 17, 2011 17 Mar'11

  VAT changes in the Channel

  The VAT rules that allow firms in the Channel Islands to undercut UK mainland rivals are looking like they're about to end.  Continue Reading