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Comms & Networking

Twisted pairing

Fixed-mobile convergence may confound the sceptics.

Management & Skills

Printing by proxy

Outsourcing print management can bring control over a major business cost.

Security & Continuity

Cyber assault

The threat to the UK’s critical IT infrastructure from cyber terrorists and activists is growing.

Development & Integration

Cultivating CRM

The customer relationship management market is the testbed for new application paradigms.

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Alpha mail

Tech giants open up enterprise email battlefront.

Management & Skills

Travelex exchanges its CRM

The world’s largest currency exchange brings order to its CRM systems.

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Inbox surveillance

Dorset Police home in on email security and archiving.

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

The AA

The director of information systems at The AA explains how he built a new IT infrastructure.

Development & Integration

Making the SOA connection

Carphone Warehouse ensures rapid responses to changes in the telecoms market.

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SOX investment levels out

IT directors who maintain that the expense of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance leaves less in the pot for IT innovation will be pleased to learn that previously rapidly escalating levels of SOX investment are finally flattening out.

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People power

IT departments are struggling to deliver the kind of IT agility required to support the quickening pace of business change.

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Growth in server market cools

The prolonged life span of modern servers – particularly x86 machines – and the application of server virtualisation techniques have resulted in slower sales and lower revenue growth in the server market.

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Integration hits the top spot

SOA and SaaS are hot on the heels of inter-application integration as top priorities for IT decision-makers in 2007.

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Confidence in security wanes

Despite a plethora of products to combat the proliferation of security threats faced by IT organisations, confidence in the ability to avoid a security breach is still low.

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Network effects

Cisco takes WebEx, and Microsoft buys into speech recognition with TellMe.

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European unison

Europe’s largest IT services companies last month confirmed a return to robust health.

Information Management

Open Text seeks solace in specialism

Open Text touts its 'pure play' enterprise content management credentials.

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Can Progress Software predict the ‘event’ horizon?

Progress readies CEP for take off.

Information Management

HP joins BI frenzy

Computer maker Hewlett-Packard is to beef up its BI portfolio.

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Sun shines again as Niagara rises

The research and development-led turnaround at Sun Microsystems.

Information Management

Beware Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is unproven and confused, and looks suspiciously like dot-com 1.0.

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Green fever

Vendors hope to reap a Green computing sales bonanza. They may be disappointed.

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The end of an empire?

US loses technology leadership. To Denmark.

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Sky-high supply

Lunar logistics.

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Smoking emails

Tracking down emails within government.

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Data centre building blocks

Modular data centres inside shipping containers offer a glimpse of next-generation infrastructure.

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A very real threat

The convergence of networks has exposed many more weak-points.