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Security & Continuity

Inside the swarm

How the deadly combination of SQL injections and botnets is fuelling an industrial revolution in cybercrime

Business Applications

Software is not enough

Oracle’s move into hardware rewrites the rulebook for enterprise systems vendors

Information Management

From data to insight

Turning oceans of data into meaningful information is a persistent challenge. But as delegates at the Information, Communication and Collaboration event heard, technology continues to produce revolutionary new techniques that make the conversion possible

Information Management

Intelligent moves

Two organisations shared very different experiences of business intelligence deployments at the Information, Communication and Collaboration event

Development & Integration

Q&A – British Airways

Chief technology officer Gordon Penfold explains how the airline carrier’s move to a service-oriented architecture will help it improve customer interactions

Business Applications

Applications on ice

Economic uncertainty is forcing many businesses to put enterprise software projects on hold, new research has found

The Cloud & Virtualization

Bringing backup back in-house

After a routine power-down caused a week of disruption, the MS Society took control of its own backup facilities

The Cloud & Virtualization

Queries at the speed of light

With tens of thousands of gamers playing simultaneously, CCP Games, creator of the popular online role-playing game Eve Online, was forced to become one of the earliest enterprise-scale adopters of solid-state storage

IT Services

A slight return for outsourcing

The recession triggered a “hiatus on decision making” but leading indicators point to a pick-up in outsourcing activity

IT Services

Questionable profits

Many tech giants have managed to grow profits of late, even as revenues have continued to fall. However, this is not necessarily good news in the long term 

Comms & Networking

Return to normality

After a brace of mega-deals in September 2009, the following month saw a return to pre-credit crunch normality in the IT mergers market

Information Management

Information Age Index: A return to growth?

For the first time in a year, the rate of revenue decline among the IT industry's key suppliers slowed in October 2009

The Cloud & Virtualization

Data Domain after the bidding war

Now part of the EMC stable, deduplication vendor sets sights on higher tiers of storage 

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

BMC Software attempts ‘Dynamic’ new vision

As it slips into negative revenue growth, business service management tools vendor launches a new vision: Dynamic BSM. But what does it mean?

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

NEON breathes fresh air into the mainframe

By allowing mainframe software to run on so-called 'specialty processors', mainframe systems management company threatens to shake up IBM's hold on the market

Information Management

Aster Data pushes the application into the database

Database systems vendor promises to inject analytical applications with the power of massively parallel processing 

The power of cybercrime 

Comms & Networking

A question of characters

Relaxing the rules that govern the allocation of domain names may endanger information security and intellectual property, critics fear

Nanocables in development

Information Management

Generation Y 'more competitive than collaborative'

The arguments that graduates now entering the workforce will demand Web 2.0-like tools may be overstated, Forrester Research study finds

Business intelligence too expensive, say business users

PC shipments better than expected

Three quarters of enterprise workers will be mobile by 2012

Threat of litigation leads to Web 2.0 ban

Virtualisation may not aid utilisation

IT staff prone to emigrate

Information Management

Book review – Enterprise 2.0

MIT academic Andrew McAfee combines theory with practice in making the case for business use of Web 2.0 technologies