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Outsourced VoIP helps devastated company recover

Outsourced VoIP helped a Berkeley company keep up business as usual after a fire destroyed its offices. Continue Reading

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• Andrew R. Hickey, Senior News Writer

Colonial Williamsburg virtualizes with Acopia

The living history museum is designed to show customers the 18th century, but behind the scenes, the business is implementing tiered storage using 21st-century file virtualization. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

Video conferencing brings desktop VoIP, app sharing

Voice, video and Web conferencing vendor Genesys adds desktop VoIP and enhanced application sharing to its collaboration lineup. Continue Reading

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• Andrew R. Hickey

The big security/storage crossover: Is your job safe? [Part Four: The new age of abstraction]

The collision of storage and security will mean chances for professionals in both disciplines to accelerate their careers into areas where strategic and business skills become more important than technical sills alone, according to David Webster, Managing Director of EMC Australia and New Zealand. Continue Reading

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• Simon Sharwood

The big security/storage crossover: Is your job safe? [Part Three: Why consumers count]

Is the cutting edge of security and storage in business, or in your lounge room? In this third installment in our four part series, Symantec's David Sykes explains why consumer behavior is the key to understanding what lies ahead. Continue Reading

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• Simon Sharwood

The big security/storage crossover: Is your job safe? [Part Two: The analyst]

Storage and security staff sometimes possess the same skills. What does that mean for your job prospects in the field? In this second part of a four part series, TechTarget ANZ asks Gartner's Phil Sergeant what lies ahead for professionals in these disciplines. Continue Reading

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• Simon Sharwood

Big pay for storage jobs, page 6

Find out what other storage professionals are being paid in this year's salary survey. Continue Reading

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Find out what other storage professionals are being paid in this year's salary survey. Continue Reading

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Big pay for storage jobs

Find out what other storage professionals are being paid in this year's salary survey. Continue Reading

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Find out what other storage professionals are being paid in this year's salary survey. Continue Reading

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Find out what other storage professionals are being paid in this year's salary survey. Continue Reading

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The big security/storage crossover: Is your job safe? [Part One: The recruiter]

Since EMC acquired RSA and Symantec enveloped Veritas, both have started discussing 'protection' of data as the sensible sequel to both storage and security. In the first of a four part series series, TechTarget ANZ asks several industry experts what they think this means for professionals in these disciplines. First up: The Recruiter. Continue Reading

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• Simon Sharwood

VoIP convergence: Managing staffing issues

Companies making the transition to IP telephony must find a way to converge their voice and data networks -- and the employees who work on them. Continue Reading

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• Amy Kucharik, TechTarget

EMC shuffles channel deck

EMC announced on its earnings call earlier this month that it would be cutting management jobs as part of a round of 1,250 layoffs, and it looks like at least a couple of those positions have already gone from the channel group. Continue Reading

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• Jo Maitland, TechTarget

Alliance and Leicester to overhaul core systems

Alliance & Leicester has announced plans replace many of its core banking systems with Accenture’s Alnova Financial Solutions banking platform under a three-year IT-led business transformation programme. Continue Reading

Convincing management to approve your networking project

Network pros must have great technology know-how, coupled with major league pitching abilities. This list of project dos and don'ts can help you over your managers. Continue Reading

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• Doug Paddock

Alliance and Leicester to overhaul core systems

Alliance & Leicester has announced plans replace many of its core banking systems with Accenture’s Alnova Financial Solutions banking platform under a three-year IT-led business transformation programme. Continue Reading

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• Christian Annesley

Does having a CCNA and MCSE equal a higher-paying job?

David Minutella answers the question, "How helpful will it be if I get a CCNA certificate or MCSE certificate to fetch a high-paying job?" Read on to see our expert's response. Continue Reading

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• David Minutella, Training Camp

Find the right work path in the field of IT

Our expert, David Minutella, answers the question of what path in IT is the right one. Continue Reading

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• David Minutella, Training Camp

What to certify in when new certification tracks are pending

In this response, our expert, Ed Tittel, answers the question, "Will it be wise to invest in MCSE security certification or to wait for Microsoft to launch new certification tracks before starting my training?" Continue Reading

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• Ed Tittel

Making the career change -- work corporate mid-level in security

In this Q&A, Ed Tittel advises on the right certifications for a person at the end of their military career. Continue Reading

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• Ed Tittel

VoIP outsourcing: Save money and gain flexibility

VoIP outsourcing is the way to go for organisations looking to deploy voice services quickly and flexibly without a major investment in skills and upkeep. Continue Reading

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• Amanda Mitchell, News Editor

Validity of certification

In this response, David Minutella talks about the validation of certification and what IT managers should be aware of. Continue Reading

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• David Minutella, Training Camp

VoIP outsourcing: Save money while gaining flexibility

VoIP outsourcing is the way to go for firms looking to deploy voice services quickly and flexibly without a major investment in skills and upkeep. Continue Reading

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• Amanda Mitchell, News Editor

The best book for CCDA certification

In this Ask the Expert, David Minutella recommends the best book resource for CCDA certification. Continue Reading

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• David Minutella, Training Camp

Skills fears as number of IT students plummets

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Outsourced way to hire contract staff

IT services company FDM has launched a "straight through" recruitment service to help IT departments in the finance sector recruit contract staff. Continue Reading

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• Tash Shifrin

Demand for development skills soars as firms seek business edge

Computer Weekly salary survey shows IT departments eager to secure skills for the future. Continue Reading

HP sales boost as restructuring costs

HP reported a 10% increase in sales for the third quarter, and said it would spend $900m (£530m) on redundancy costs in the final quarter. Continue Reading

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• Antony Savvas

Combining technology and social engineering: Hacking behind bars

In this excerpt from Chapter 11 of "The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security," authors Kevin Mitnick and William L. Simon begin a story that shows how social engineering can be used with technology. Continue Reading

HP attempts to reassures anxious customers on impact of job losses

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Riding the wave of change

CIOs can thrive as pace of change quickens, argues Des Lee Continue Reading

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• Des Lee

How to win the jobs game

Many readers have been disappointed by recruitment agents. All the more reason to develop the relationship Continue Reading

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• Colin Christie

Seven steps to ensure project success

The Value Manager recently had a project fall well below expectations. He reviewed what happened and came up with seven key steps for managing technical risk and one golden rule. Continue Reading

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• The Value Manager

Atos wins DWP deal extension

The Department for Work and Pensions has renewed a contract with IT services company Atos Origin to deliver medical advice and... Continue Reading

Demand more from agencies: fine tune the recruitment process and reap the rewards

Users must be proactive in ensuring that recommended candidates are suitable Continue Reading

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• Jerry Cave, director of PLan-Net

First integrated children's system goes live

The first web-based system to help councils meet new legal requirements for information sharing among teachers, social workers... Continue Reading

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• Lindsay Clark

Ex-helicopter chief says pilot verdict is 'ridiculous'

A former director of helicopter procurement at the Ministry of Defence has described the blaming of the pilots for the crash on... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Achieving the goal of CIO

What exactly does a chief information officer do?Paul Burfitt, global CIO at AstraZeneca, analysed the various aspects of his job... Continue Reading

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• Julia Vowler

IT staff predict e-government success despite councillors’ doubts

Tony Blair has failed to convince councillors in almost half of the UK’s local authorities of the value of e-government. Continue Reading

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• James Rogers

What's in an IT name?

What exactly does a chief information officer do?Paul Burfitt, global CIO at AstraZeneca, analysed the various aspects of his job... Continue Reading

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• Nick Huber

Industry recruits wrong people

UK industry could be recruiting candidates with the wrong personality type to be a success in IT. Continue Reading

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• Nathalie Towner & John Riley

Scale 21 conference will reveal key to IT success

The results of the largest ever survey of IT professionals and entrepreneurs are to be announced at the Building Britain's... Continue Reading

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• Nathalie Towner

Infineon claims cost-cutting success

Semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies is claiming progress in its plan to cut costs by £630m over the next year, but... Continue Reading

Mitsubishi Electric looks to earnings revision

Mitsubishi Electric has described as "speculative" reports in a Japanese newspaper that the company is intending to reduce its... Continue Reading

IT spending will rise faster than inflation

Although suppliers may be shedding IT jobs, corporate users still plan to spend an extra 11% on permanent staff this year - five... Continue Reading

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• John Riley

Government to train unemployed in IT

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• Arlene Martin

Firms warned to monitor service as Cisco cuts staff

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• Antony Adshead, Computer Weekly

Feeling the pinch

The Internet age is not over just because a few dotcoms have run into difficulty, says Martin Butler, who believes that the... Continue Reading

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• Martin Butler

Window of the world

Going online means going global. So why do so many companies give their website less consideration than other areas of the... Continue Reading

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• Rod Tyler

Silicon Valley looks East

"Cross border sourcing" is gaining in popularity in the US where an expanding skills vacuum has led Silicon Valley businesses to... Continue Reading

The world is enough

As a global business, IT offers managers and directors many opportunities to work abroad and, as Julia Vowler finds out, these... Continue Reading

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• Julia Vowler

Delivering digital streaming in the Real world

While the fortunes of streaming media firm Real Networks have been in decline, the company is not taking it lying down, writes... Continue Reading

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• Danny Bradbury

Armed forces morale hit by Chinook say MPs

MPs said yesterday that the Government's refusal to move on the Public Accounts Committee report on the 1994 Chinook crash was hitting armed forces morale.... Continue Reading

A thoroughly modern e-apprenticeship

Jane Dudman explains how young people in Newham have the chance to be apprentices in a scheme to lessen the blow of the IT skills... Continue Reading

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• Jane Dudman

IT man on the 5am ferry as Horizon reaches Orkney

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Post Offices in two of the most isolated parts of the UK are the latest to go live as part of the Horizon counter...

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• James Rogers

Report reveals trend to more women in IT

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