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July 28, 2010 28 Jul'10
Pacnet, Pacific Fibre, to light up cable competition

Pacnet and Pacfic Fibre will team to construct a new trans-pacific cable, which will operate at 5.1 terabits per second.
July 21, 2010 21 Jul'10
Why the ACCC thinks carrier Ethernet is important

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has indicated it may include Ethernet services in its list of Domestic Transmission Capacity Services. Richard Chirgwin analyses the implications of the move.
July 21, 2010 21 Jul'10
Using 3G as a backup WAN

3G data services are often advanced as a cheap way to provide a disaster recovery service for your WAN. But experts say you need to do more than just cut from one link to another to create a functional connection.
July 14, 2010 14 Jul'10
Government scraps £80m Microsoft licensing deal with NHS

The government has scrapped the long-running NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) enterprise agreement (EA) software licensing deal with Microsoft after deciding there was no business case or budget to renew it.
July 12, 2010 12 Jul'10
NHS National Programme for IT set for major changes

The controversial £12bn NHS IT project looks set for an overhaul as a result of a major reorganisation of the health service
June 21, 2010 21 Jun'10
Telstra/NBN FAQ

Richard Chirgwin analyses the proposed deal between the federal government and Telstra, explaining how it will work, what it will mean for your broadband connection and the impact on competition.
June 18, 2010 18 Jun'10
PRIMER: WiFi sniffers

Learn about WiFi sniffers, how they operate, how they can help to manage your WLANs and why Google is far from alone in its use of the technology.
June 16, 2010 16 Jun'10
Google Maps allows users to see which homes are for sale

Google Maps users will be able to search for listings from estate agents and property websites directly on the maps from today.

June 08, 2010 08 Jun'10
BSkyB and HP/EDS settle on £318m in damages

HP has agreed to pay BSkyB £318m in damages six months after a UK court ruled that HP-owned EDS had misrepresented its capabilities in delivering a CRM system.
May 26, 2010 26 May'10
Royal Mail postpones Horizon roll-out after outages

A pilot of the new Horizon Online system at Royal Mail has been scaled back after connectivity problems and outages.
May 20, 2010 20 May'10
Hacker McKinnon to stay in UK, for now

Self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon will stay in the UK for the foreseeable future following home secretary Theresa May's decision to adjourn a judicial review of his case due next week.
May 11, 2010 11 May'10
Challenges of SIP trunking for telecom managers and network admins

The challenges of SIP trunking for network administrators include interoperability and compression issues, service availability, security, SIP trunking architectures, lack of fax services, E-911 support and SIP trunk monitoring tools.
April 23, 2010 23 Apr'10
Small storage devices a hit at big hotel

Riverbed working to optimise iSCSI performance over wide area networks, to boost storage systems’ performance in cloud computing rigs.
April 22, 2010 22 Apr'10
HDS and EMC's unified plans ridiculed by 3Par, Pillar, NetApp labelled "NotApp"

The storage blogosphere has adopted some wonderfully plain speech to describe the current mania for "unified storage" as EMC, HDS, NetApp, Pillar and 3Par sound off.

April 19, 2010 19 Apr'10
Tier Wars: Hardware, storage management software and document management software stake a claim for

Storage tiering is a hot meme, and rightly so because it can lower costs and is an important way to use the speed of solid state disks to your advantage. But with three tiering choices in the market – hardware, storage software and document ...
April 05, 2010 05 Apr'10
Geoscience Australia selects IBM 3592 cartridges as its tape migration extends beyond ten years

Geoscience Australia selects IBM 3592 cartridges as its tape migration extends beyond ten years
April 02, 2010 02 Apr'10
Federal Government cancels OPEL contract

The Federal Government has cancelled the OPEL contract for delivery of wireless broadband to regional areas
March 11, 2010 11 Mar'10
Microsoft loses appeal on Office XML patent dispute with i4i

Microsoft has lost an appeal in its dispute with i4i over XML support in Office 2003/2007, following a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
February 24, 2010 24 Feb'10
Chinook Mk2's safety-critical backup system was faulty

Software supplier EDS found so many anomalies in fuel-control software on the Chinook Mk2 helicopter that it became concerned that the Ministry of Defence and RAF would ignore the potential importance of each flaw because of the high volume of ...
February 22, 2010 22 Feb'10
What was the 'dangerous' flaw in safety-critical Chinook system?

Defence contractor EDS - now part of HP - warned the Ministry of Defence that flaws in a Fadec safety-critical system fitted to the Chinook Mk2 helicopter could cause it to malfunction, months before a fatal crash on the Mull of Kintyre.
January 29, 2010 29 Jan'10
Aura will power Avaya-Nortel unified communications integration

Avaya has staked its future of retaining Nortel customers on its flagship SIP-based communications platform, Aura, as the heart of the Avaya-Nortel UC portfolio.
January 12, 2010 12 Jan'10
Senior airmen question safety of Chinook software

Three fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society have questioned whether the Chinook Mk2, of the type which crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994, was airworthy.
January 07, 2010 07 Jan'10
MoD renews attack on dead Chinook pilots despite software flaw disclosures

The Ministry of Defence has renewed its attack on the dead pilots of Chinook ZD576, after the publication of documents that revealed a "dangerous" flaw in software installed on the type of helicopter that crashed.
January 05, 2010 05 Jan'10
Chinook computer flaws - ex-ministers speak out

Former Defence ministers are calling for a new inquiry into the crash of Chinook 576, after new disclosures of a "positively dangerous" flaw in software...
January 05, 2010 05 Jan'10
Evolving cloud storage market has users weighing their enterprise data storage options

This series takes an in-depth look at the evolving concepts of cloud storage and all of its subtypes, such as internal, external, private and public clouds.
January 04, 2010 04 Jan'10
Chinook computer was 'positively dangerous' say newly-disclosed MoD documents

A computer flaw in the type of Chinook helicopter that crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, killing all 29 on board, was known to be "positively dangerous", according to military documents that have not been published until today.
December 07, 2009 07 Dec'09
NHS IT scheme to be scaled back

The Chancellor Alistair Darling and the Treasury are to scale back spending on the NHS's National Programme for IT.
December 01, 2009 01 Dec'09
Gary McKinnon must face US trial, home secretary tells parliament

Home secretary Alan Johnson has said the US is the proper place for self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon to be tried, scotching any further hopes that the...
November 26, 2009 26 Nov'09
Microsoft emphasises content management, security at launch of Vista, Office'07 and Exchange

Microsoft has declared that the combination of Windows Vista, Office System 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 have the potential to help businesses improve their productivity by making it easier to manage unstructured data.
November 23, 2009 23 Nov'09
CBI: Eight things you didn’t know about digital communications

Interesting facts from the CBI report, The shape of business – the next 10 years
November 23, 2009 23 Nov'09
Post Office theft case deferred over IT questions

A sub-postmistress accused of theft from the Post Office has had her case postponed until next year to allow experts time to investigate the accounting system at her branch.
November 11, 2009 11 Nov'09
Copy of IT Blog Awards 2009: last call for nominations

You have until 27 October to vote for your favourite UK IT blogs.
November 11, 2009 11 Nov'09
Data asset inventory key to disaster recovery planning and design

A disaster recovery plan should include a data asset inventory and business impact analysis, define the company's DR levels and explore DR site options (hot, warm or cold site).
October 21, 2009 21 Oct'09
Israel carves a niche in IT security

IT security, risk, governance, continuity and compliance technologies are fast becoming some of Israel's top exports.

Analysing and...
October 21, 2009 21 Oct'09
Apple enters SMB NAS market with new server

Our regular roundup of storage news includes a new cloud backup service from Brennan IT, Quantum finding demand for LTO-5 before its launch, a new SMB server from Apple and SNIA ANZ’s last course for the year
September 28, 2009 28 Sep'09
Post-masters form action group after accounts shortfall

Sub-postmasters have formed an action group following disclosures in Computer Weekly of unexplained deficits in the Post Office accounting system.
September 10, 2009 10 Sep'09
MP seeks answers over Post Office IT system

Welsh MP for Clwyd West David Jones is seeking a Commons debate after post masters raised questions over the Post Office's Horizon accounting system.

He...
September 08, 2009 08 Sep'09
EDS v Sky: the most significant judgement in an IT case ever?

It is now about a year since the trial in the dispute between BSkyB and EDS drew to a close. At the time, judgment was expected within a couple of months. The absence of a judgment becomes more conspicuous by the day. We can surely expect a verdict ...
September 03, 2009 03 Sep'09
The first ever 20 domain names registered

As news breaks that the oldest domain name is sold, here is a list of the first 20 names to be registered, according to the forrester.
September 03, 2009 03 Sep'09
Labour rejects review of Chinook crash

Defence Secretary, Bob Ainsworth, has ruled out ordering a new inquiry into the controversial Chinook crash, which left all 29 people on board dead, including...
September 02, 2009 02 Sep'09
Tories commit to Chinook crash review

The Tories have made it party policy to appoint a senior judge to review a finding of gross negligence against the two deceased pilots of a Chinook Mk2 helicopter which crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994.
September 01, 2009 01 Sep'09
Communications Alliance: Recruitment and training integral to NBN’s success

The CEO of the Communications Alliance, Anne Hurley, argues that the National Broadband Network cannot succeed without skilled people to build and operate the new infrastructure.
August 19, 2009 19 Aug'09
Gartner dispels concerns surrounding cloud computing services in India

Diptarup Chakraborti, a principal research analyst at Gartner Inc., says fears related to cloud computing are overblown in India and shares his advice for IT departments that want to adopt cloud-based services.
August 17, 2009 17 Aug'09
Hard disk drive specifications guide: What to look for when buying disk storage

Seek times, latency, data transfer rates, error correction codes and cache are important hard disk drive specifications. Learn the key features of hard disks drives so you can specify the right one for your data centre.
July 31, 2009 31 Jul'09
Gary McKinnon loses case to avoid extradition, could face 60 years in jail

Hacker Gary McKinnon has failed in his last attempt to avoid extradition to the United States where he could face 60 years in prison.
July 27, 2009 27 Jul'09
Managing enterprise data storage more efficiently: Part 1

Storage managers must learn to improve storage efficiency though smarter spending, while taking steps to reduce operating expenditures during budget crunches.
July 24, 2009 24 Jul'09
IBM sells Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) gear from Brocade, Cisco

IBM steps up its Fibre Channel over Ethernet strategy by selling Brocade 8000 FCoE switches and 1010/1020 converged network adapters, and Cisco Systems' Nexus 5000 FCoE switches.
July 17, 2009 17 Jul'09
Apollo 11: 40 years on, where is software engineering today?

The Apollo 11 lunar landing would have been impossible had it not been for software engineering.
July 17, 2009 17 Jul'09
Apollo 11: The story of the moon landing in video

Television was limited at the time of the launch but these original videos show J F Kennedy announcing his intentions through to the successful press conference.
July 13, 2009 13 Jul'09
Which RAID level has the best price-to-performance comparison?

Configuring disk in RAID arrays brings a variety of benefits, most notably data protection and I/O performance. But which RAID level wins in terms of price vs. performance?