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  • July 31, 2008 31 Jul'08

    Minister hails Fujitsu’s leaving NPfIT as sign of strength

    The termination of Fujitsu's...

  • June 16, 2008 16 Jun'08

    Gary McKinnon broke into 73,000 US government computers, Lords told

    Self confessed British hacker Gary McKinnon, who is fighting extradition to the US, broke into more than 73,000 US government computers, including those of the US Army, Navy and Nasa, and deleted critical data, the House of Lords heard today.

  • May 27, 2008 27 May'08

    New doubts raised on Chinook crash ruling

    A former senior officer who helped write rules for RAF accident inquiries has spoken publicly for the first time about his concerns over the cause of a controversial Chinook helicopter crash 14 years ago.

  • January 23, 2008 23 Jan'08

    Network managers: master project management to get better salaries

    Network technicians will need to learn project manager skills if corporate rollouts of wider and more advanced networks are to be successful, according to attendees at the Cisco Networkers 2008 this week.

  • January 22, 2008 22 Jan'08

    Fujitsu may quit NHS National Programme for IT

    The board of an NHS trust has learned of a "significant" risk of ­Fujitsu ending its £900m contract to supply and implement hospital systems across southern England as part of the National Programme for IT.

  • December 11, 2007 11 Dec'07

    San adoption cuts costs and power

    Advanced storage driving datacentre area and energy consumption reduction

  • November 26, 2007 26 Nov'07

    Ofcom fines broadband provider

    Ofcom has fined broadband provider Prodigy £30,000 for failing to comply with requirements to provide information on how it allows customers to switch broadband provider.

  • November 16, 2007 16 Nov'07

    Redundancy tracker

  • November 14, 2007 14 Nov'07

    Home Office awards £650m e-Borders contract

    The Home Office has awarded its £650m eBorders contract to a consortium led by Raytheon Systems.

  • November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07

    Non-unified communications can cost millions

    Fragmented communications are costing companies millions of dollars by disrupting workflow and business processes, a new study has revealed.

  • November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07

    Adaptec reports losses

    Adaptec's revenue was down year over year, as well as sequentially; DataDirect says the InfiniBand business is booming.

  • November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07

    CommVault revenues spike after update of Simpana backup app

    CommVault attributes a spike in sales to the integration of features such as archiving, replication and search into its backup products.

  • November 01, 2007 01 Nov'07

    ISCSI storage gets performance makeover

    Suppliers, including Ibrix, Mellanox, Alacritech and EqualLogic, are offering juiced-up new iSCSI configurations, while 3PAR, CipherMax and NeoScale boost data security products.

  • October 30, 2007 30 Oct'07

    EMC's Tucci vows to keep up with new features

    EMC CEO says storage giant is widening its technology net to match innovations of smaller competitors.

  • October 29, 2007 29 Oct'07

    Unified communications platform gets SMB twist

    While unified communications has eluded the SMB market, Siemens has released an all-in-one UC appliance specifically for the SMB.

  • October 28, 2007 28 Oct'07

    Advanced data storage final exam

    Are you up to date on advanced data storage technologies? Take our final exam and evaluate your knowledge of advanced data storage. This final exam isn't for the weak.

  • October 28, 2007 28 Oct'07

    NetApp releases $3K iSCSI SAN

    NetApp pushes further down-market with the release of the S300, the latest SMB iSCSI SAN in its StoreVault line.

  • October 23, 2007 23 Oct'07

    Product Roundup: ISCSI

    Here's a look at some of the vendors and products that make up the iSCSI market.

  • October 21, 2007 21 Oct'07

    Tackling the backup and recovery challenges of tomorrow

    Your data backup and data recovery challenges never stop changing. In this videocast, an EMC executive and a storage analyst discuss the new approaches you'll need to solve tomorrow's backup and recovery challenges.

  • October 21, 2007 21 Oct'07

    VoIP certification credentials

    Many certifications touch on voice over IP topics tangentially, but numerous credentials now focus a fairly substantial portion of their coverage on this subject matter. In this certification survey, we take a look at available certifications, ...

  • October 21, 2007 21 Oct'07

    Intellectual property lawsuits dog storage industry

    The proliferation of patent litigation among data storage companies could stifle technological innovation and drive up costs to the user.

  • October 14, 2007 14 Oct'07

    VMware takes on data migration

    VMware supports migrating data between disc arrays with Storage VMotion, changing the equation between server and storage virtualisation devices.

  • October 09, 2007 09 Oct'07

    Switch upgrades and replacements

    In this chapter of our guide to SAN expansion best practices, you'll learn about the physical limitations of switches, how to architect the switching infrastructure and how to find opportunities to deploy ISCSI.

  • October 05, 2007 05 Oct'07

    Podcast: the true cost of IT security

    In this interview, Cliff Saran speaks to Martin Sadler, director of HP's Trusted Systems Lab, about how much should we be expected to spend and how much security is enough. Hackers are getting smarter and Martin believes newly trained IT ...

  • October 04, 2007 04 Oct'07

    Pillar announces support for 1 TB SATA drives

    Pillar is one of the earliest to announce 1 TB SATA drives in an enterprise array. IBM's SVC becomes the first storage virtualization product certified with VMware.

  • October 02, 2007 02 Oct'07

    Web 2.0 strategies for SMBs

    Web 2.0 technologies are catching on at companies of all sizes. Find out how to make them work for your SMB with SearchSMB.com's top five Web 2.0 tips.

  • October 01, 2007 01 Oct'07

    UK will lead £13m study on electronic ID

    The UK is to spearhead a £13m pilot project covering 13 European countries to test the interoperability of several electronic identity verification systems. This may eventually give citizens and businesses access to e-government services across the ...

  • September 26, 2007 26 Sep'07

    Microsoft releases Windows Server 2008 RC0

    Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) is now available for customer review.

  • September 24, 2007 24 Sep'07

    PCI council adds Pin security to remit

    The PCI Security Standards Council has added Pin Entry Device (PED) security technology to its payments industry testing portfolio to streamline standardisation.

  • September 16, 2007 16 Sep'07

    3PAR adds tiered storage management tool

    The new version of the System Reporter management tool for 3PAR's high-end arrays now includes monitoring for tiered storage environments.

  • September 16, 2007 16 Sep'07

    Storage Decisions Session Downloads: Data Protection and Backup Track (NYC 2007)

    Making the backup process seamless and reliable is critical. This track covers the staple backup technologies such as disk and tape, but also has an eye on the litany of new technologies set to drastically alter the data protection landscape. ...

  • September 16, 2007 16 Sep'07

    Communications-as-a-service taking hold

    Communications-as-a-service is taking hold worldwide as a viable hosted IP telephony system.

  • September 10, 2007 10 Sep'07

    Product Roundup: E-discovery

    A look at some of the suppliers and products that make up the e-discovery market.

  • September 09, 2007 09 Sep'07

    Virtual appliance lets users convert DAS to iSCSI San

    LeftHand Networks has released an edition of its SaniQ iSCSI San software that will convert locally attached disc to networked storage.

  • September 07, 2007 07 Sep'07

    Microsoft update to patch critical Windows flaw

    Microsoft plans to patch a critical flaw in Windows and plug holes in MSN Messenger, Visual Studio, and Windows services for Unix.

  • September 07, 2007 07 Sep'07

    Government warns of dangerous QuickBooks Online flaw

    Attackers could exploit two flaws in the popular Intuit QuickBooks Online Edition to cause buffer overflows and download or upload files in arbitrary locations, US-CERT warned.

  • September 07, 2007 07 Sep'07

    Cybercriminals employ toolkits in rising numbers to steal data

    The market is increasing for crimeware toolkits that help cybercriminals avoid detection and exploit flaws, according to new research from security vendor, Finjan.

  • September 06, 2007 06 Sep'07

    Data security breach at Pfizer affects thousands

    A Pfizer employee removed files exposing 34,000 people to potential identity fraud, according to the company. It was the third data breach at the company in three months.

  • September 05, 2007 05 Sep'07

    NAC switches, appliances help track users, malware

    Some vendors are offering switches and appliances to monitor traffic for malware and unauthorized access, as the NAC market including Cisco NAC and Microsoft NAP sorts itself out.

  • September 05, 2007 05 Sep'07

    Firefox security issues persist despite update

    Despite Mozilla's recent Firefox security update, researchers say there's another way attackers could exploit the browser for malicious purposes.