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• 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?

• July 07, 2009 07 Jul'09

  BlueArc challenges NetApp in the enterprise with Mercury 50, Mercury 100 network-attached storage (N

  With NetApp distracted by Data Domain and late delivering Ontap with clustered NAS capabilities, BlueArc targets the enterprise NAS market with Mercury 50, Mercury 100 NAS systems.

• June 16, 2009 16 Jun'09

  Air France Airbus pitot sensor linked to two fatal crashes

  Faults similar to those on an Air France Airbus that crashed into the sea on 1 June were major factors in two little-noticed fatal losses of passenger...

• June 15, 2009 15 Jun'09

  Final cockpit moments with blocked pitot sensors

  Two fatal crashes of passenger aircraft show that it is dangerous for pilots to have conflicting information and warnings in the cockpit.

  The recovered...

• June 14, 2009 14 Jun'09

  Solution: 34 is the key to the magic square

  Since the square is known to be magic, we can assume from basic "magic theory" that the missing numbers are those absent at the moment from the series 1 to 16. The main insight then required is to spot that the third column from the left must ...

• June 12, 2009 12 Jun'09

  Crash One: Birgenair Flight 301

  This is the extraordinary story of an aircraft which was in good flying order except for a blocked pitot tube which caused multiple problems.

• June 04, 2009 04 Jun'09

  Chinook crash: critical internal memo on software flaws

  Computer Weekly is publishing, in full for the first time, an MoD memo that is the clearest evidence yet that software problems made the helicopter unsafe to fly at the time of the accident.

• May 10, 2009 10 May'09

  Bankruptcy, prosecution and disrupted livelihoods - Postmasters tell their story

  Rebecca Thomson reports on claims that the Post Office has failed to recognise a potential IT problem.

• April 15, 2009 15 Apr'09

  UBS to cut thousands of jobs

  Swiss bank UBS will cut about 10,000 jobs to save up to £2.3bn by the end of next year with more highly skilled IT workers to flood onto a finance sector...

• April 09, 2009 09 Apr'09

  PtW server test

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• April 07, 2009 07 Apr'09

  Spend on NHS NPfIT of £5.1bn exceeds initial budget

  Taxpayer spending so far on the NHS’s National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has risen to £5.1bn, which is more than the scheme’s original total lifecycle cost.

• March 24, 2009 24 Mar'09

  Get cracking crushing Conficker

  Conficker will activate its botnet on April 1st. Sophos, Symantec, Webroot, BitDefender and other vendors say you should remove it ASAP before the real trouble starts.

• March 04, 2009 04 Mar'09

  LUN storage and its role in SAN management

  Explore logical unit number (LUN) storage and its role in SAN management. Learn how to create a LUN, how to share a LUN, and find out about LUN provisioning and LUN masking.

• March 03, 2009 03 Mar'09

  Make IT change management part of your disaster recovery plan

  All the disaster recovery technology in the world won't help without the right culture and process, writes Burton analyst Richard Jones.

• February 23, 2009 23 Feb'09

  Exclusive: Computer Weekly publishes 'secret' gateway review

  This is the first publication of an entire gateway review by an online news service.

• February 13, 2009 13 Feb'09

  Free mobile computing connectivity with broadband subscription

  In a move that is designed to extend the flexibility and adaptability of firms, especially small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs), BT has launched a broadband package that also provides a free public Wi-Fi hotspot.

• February 12, 2009 12 Feb'09

  TPC-E: New IT benchmarks for OLTP database servers

  The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has released new benchmarks for online transaction processing (OLTP) database servers and hopes CIOs will use the new measures to inform their purchasing decisions.

• February 12, 2009 12 Feb'09

  Incremental vs. differential backup: A comparison

  In this Storage Basics on incremental vs differential backup, we explore the benefits and drawbacks of each of these backup strategies

• February 10, 2009 10 Feb'09

  Added critical data protection for SMBs

  New technology aiming to solve small and medium size businesses’ perennial problems with protecting business critical data

• February 10, 2009 10 Feb'09

  Sectors - NetApp says EMC Centera loses data, gets slapped by blogosphere

  NetApp has tried to smear EMC, starting a blogosphere brawl which embroiled Symantec but may have left egg on its face.

• December 24, 2008 24 Dec'08

  Technology of the year award

  TechTarget ANZ Editor Simon Sharwood names his Technology of the Year. Do you agree with the choice?

• December 24, 2008 24 Dec'08

  Predictions for 2009

  Wondering what will be important in 2009? We've rounded up eight predictions for the year ahead for your reading pleasure.

• December 24, 2008 24 Dec'08

  Ian Yates' quite literal year in review

  Ian Yates product reviews are unique and make ideal holiday reading.

• December 24, 2008 24 Dec'08

  EDITORIAL: Lessons from 2008

  TechTarget ANZ's Editorial team looks back on 2008 and suggests new directions for the new year.

• December 24, 2008 24 Dec'08

  TechTarget ANZ's greatest hits

  Here's the end-of-year roundup you wrote - the most popular stories across the TechTarget ANZ network for 2008.

• December 24, 2008 24 Dec'08

  Ian Yates' quite literal year in review

  Ian Yates product reviews are unique and make ideal holiday reading.

• December 23, 2008 23 Dec'08

  Richard Chirgwin's Holiday Favourite

  There's no better way to prepare for 2009 than reading Richard Chirgwin's networking primers!

• December 19, 2008 19 Dec'08

  Mobile broadband demand props up crunched WiMAX

  Research predicts global recession to cause enterprises to postpone WiMAX adoption but mobile will lead recovery

• December 10, 2008 10 Dec'08

  MoD was warned not to fly Chinook on day of crash

  A senior defence official warned the Ministry of Defence to suspend flights of a Chinook helicopter because of safety concerns on the day the aircraft crashed...

• December 08, 2008 08 Dec'08

  Chronology: The Chinook

  1985 : Almost at the start of development of the Chinook's Full Authority Digital Engine Control ( Fadec ) computer system there...

• December 08, 2008 08 Dec'08

  Chinook ZD576: How the Fadec engine control software worked and what could have gone wrong

  What follows is some of the evidence ...

• December 08, 2008 08 Dec'08

  Victory over Chinook crash after 14 years

  A brave, independent stand by the Defence Secretary John Hutton and his predecessor Des Browne, against 14 years of obfuscation and immovable arrogance by the Ministry of Defence, has led finally to justice over the notorious crash of a Chinook ...

• December 08, 2008 08 Dec'08

  Tens of thousands of IT jobs at risk in global finance sector

  The investment banking industry will see thousands of job cuts as mergers are completed and companies prepare for a slowdown in business.

• December 04, 2008 04 Dec'08

  How the Mytob virus caused havoc in the NHS

  The Mytob virus has been removed from 5,000 PCs at

• November 28, 2008 28 Nov'08

  Three Peaks Challenge 2009

• November 19, 2008 19 Nov'08

  How to evaluate and purchase a SAN

  The Royal Horticultural Society's network manager Martin Taylor guides users through the process of evaluating and purchasing a SAN.

• November 18, 2008 18 Nov'08

  Union calls for return of 4,000 offshored jobs

  Lloyds TSB Group Union will use the bank's extraordinary general meeting today to encourage shareholders to support the return of 4,000 jobs...

• October 14, 2008 14 Oct'08

  Using Wireshark to monitor and secure your network

  Learn how to use packet analyser, Wireshark, in this illustrated tutorial.

• October 07, 2008 07 Oct'08

  Don't jump to Hyper-V unless you have to

  Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 R2 (MSVS) remains a powerful tool for managing virtual infrastructure and there's no need to rush to Hyper-V.

• October 01, 2008 01 Oct'08

  Using iPerf to measure WLAN performance

  Learn how to measure TCP/UDP, throughput, loss and delay with iPerf, an open source network testing tool.

• September 30, 2008 30 Sep'08

  What is the ISAKMP policy and how does it impact IPsec VPN router configuration?

  Learn how to implement ISAKMP policies using IKE to ensure secure VPN configuration, in part three of our VPN guide.

• September 05, 2008 05 Sep'08

  Repco CIO adds presence to BlackBerry to boost mobility

  Auto parts company Repco is bringing presence and unified voicemail to its fleet of BlackBerry devices.

• September 01, 2008 01 Sep'08

  Fujitsu seeking £700m over NHS IT contract termination

  Fujitsu is reported to be seeking £700m from the Department of Health after its £1bn contract as a local service provider

• August 28, 2008 28 Aug'08

  Managing Windows networks using scripts part 10: Some neat WMI tricks

  The 10th instalment of our tutorial series on managing Windows networks with scripts offers a pair of cool WMI tricks.

• August 21, 2008 21 Aug'08

  Microsoft and Novell expand Windows/Linux integration deal

  Microsoft and Novell are extending their interoperability agreement to tie Windows closer to Novell's SUSE Linux in the enterprise.

• August 15, 2008 15 Aug'08

  What is Unified Communications?

  Confused by Unified Communications? This article and accompanying e-book download explains what is UC, what is not UC, and how to put it to work.