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IT Services

Cultural dimensions in offshore outsourcing

Understanding cultural differences is vital for successful offshore outsourcing

Comms & Networking

The growing pains of unified comms

The vision of a unified communications infrastructure, centred on IP, has been an alluring prospect for over half a decade. So what is holding back broad adoption?

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Virtualising the desktop

The delivery of desktop services from a virtual PC estate within the data centre is a core ambition of many IT organisations

Development & Integration

The difficulties of Agile development

The fluid nature of Agile projects can make them difficult to manage, says Dr Peter Merrick

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

A problem shared

Data centre managers in all industries are facing the same issues of heat, power and cost

Comms & Networking

Law in the home

NetworkLaw uses remote desktop technology to cut the cost of doing business

The Cloud & Virtualization

The ultimate archive

The British Library’s information environment presents a storage management challenge like no other

Management & Skills

Reel-time analytics

LoveFilm has seen improved conversions since it started gauging how changes to its website influence users

Security & Continuity

Malware in the safezone

Illegitimate code embedded in seemingly safe websites is replacing email as the main method of delivering malware

Information Management

Corporate game theory

Advanced military simulation techniques could be the key to better business outcomes

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Information Index August 2008

Industry nosedive halts

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Decapitation spree hits IT sector

AMD and Alcatel-Lucent wave farewell to top brass after disastrous results, while VMware's new CEO rings that changes

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Brocade and Foundry Networks bid to build a giant

A merger by two medium-sized players forms a network equipment company that hopes to challenge the mighty Cisco

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Businesses sharpen hunger for Skype

Cash-strapped UK companies are flocking to the low-cost Internet telephony service

Development & Integration

Oracle lays out middleware roadmap

Customer concerns over the software giant's priorities remain

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Dell blazes an iSCSI trail

Dell's acquisition of iSCSI specialist EqualLogic is just step one of their plan to shake up the storage industry

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Month in review

All the top stories from July 2008

Business Applications

"The cost of business software and support is set to skyrocket"

As two software giants prepare to increase their fees, are IT organisations about to be hit by a steep rise in the cost of buying and maintaining business software?

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Laptop boom drives PC sales

PC shipments increased a quarter on last year, pushed by rising laptop demand

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Profit warnings down among IT companies

Tech sector performance is up with IT companies issuing less profit warnings in the second quarter of '08.

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France leads open source adoption

European countries are leading the surge in popularity of open source adoption in the enterprise - with the exception of the UK.

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IT leaders not too concerned about green IT

IT leaders in the UK take a dim view of their company's green credentials, according to a pan-European survey by data centre networking firm Brocade.

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Email impatience on the rise

Businesses are becoming increasingly impatient with email and demanding quicker response times

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Decline in senior IT roles

The number of IT support jobs being advertised has risen while senior roles have markedly fallen, according to a new survey.

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BPO workers of the world unite

India's business process outsourcing industry at last gets its own - technology-driven - trade union

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Groundswell

This book is a must-read for anyone getting to grips with the impact of Web 2.0 on business

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Time for a mid-life crisis

It appears that 43 is the most likely age for IT workers to have a breakdown – with potentially disastrous results

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PCs will evaporate into ‘the cloud’

Larry Ellison predicted desktop virtualisation more than a decade ago, recalls Information Age editor Kenny MacIver