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Tom in a previous life was once a technical author for a company selling a legacy operating system (anyone remember Pick?). From there Tom moved to Bloor Research working as a technical editor on Bloor's "Evaluation and Comparison" reports. He then joined ComputerWire, where he wrote for the daily news service Computergram, as well as Computer Business Review (CBR) magazine, before joining Techworld in 2007.
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Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are risking the loss of valuable corporate data because they are failing to take enough steps to secure their data and are not backing it up.
read more...IT managers are increasingly at risk of been caught out for failing to comply with a EU directive on refrigerant gases used in cooling systems for server rooms and data centres.
read more...IT bosses are not yet convinced over the green benefits from cloud computing, after Rackspace Hosting's third annual 'Green Survey' found that cost savings and consolidation are driving the green IT agenda at the moment.
read more...Connectivity designer Pericom Semiconductor has announced a new USB switch that will allow USB devices such as an iPhone to charge, while the operating system remains in sleep mode.
read more...Despite the economic downturn, IT departments are still struggling with a "significant" skills gap, according to new research from accounting and consulting firm Deloitte.
read more...A new study has revealed the hidden costs of technology failures with 25 percent of contact centre projects suffering cost overruns and delays, not helped by the chronic lack of testing.
read more...Acronis has this week launched True Image Home 2010, the latest version of its consumer backup and recovery software. But the storage vendor is also concerned that some organisations may be getting complacent about their disaster recovery (DR) procedures by not testing them enough.
read more...Motorola has unveiled a new rugged enterprise digital assistant designed to capitalise on its success in the handheld computer sector, at a time when the future of its consumer handset division remains uncertain.
read more...Blue Coat has added support for virtual desktops, as well as improving the user interface and allowing for greater visibility into the applications using the corporate network, with a major new version of PacketShaper appliance, due out later this month.
read more...Dell has announced it has begun selling Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) as it launched a range of new servers and storage equipment tailored towards the needs of the small to medium sized businesses.
read more...FrontRange aims to make licence tracking easier
read more...Virtualisation specialist Veeam has launched a new major version of its disaster recovery and business continuity tool, just months after its previous version, in order to include support for vSphere 4 vStorage technology.
read more...Savvis has previewed what it claims will be the first fully virtualised private data centre service that is designed to give enterprises an on-demand data centre resource, as and when they require it.
read more...Four out of five enterprises are now giving cloud computing a try. New research has confirmed that at least 80 percent of IT managers are looking at the technology.
read more...Mimecast has launched what its CEO described as one of the most significant upgrades in recent years to its email flagship Unified Email Management platform.
read more...A virtualised server that experiences a catostrophic failure has the potential to knock offline up to 20 virtual machines, and hence is driving the need for ultra reliable servers. So says Stratus Technologies, which has just doubled the performance of its new ftServer line thanks to the use of Intel's high-performance Nehalem microarchitecture.
read more...Fujitsu has begun shipping what it is touting as its most energy efficient thin client yet, the Futro S100.
read more...Businesses in the UK will increasingly turn to virtualisation technologies in order to help them overcome their operational and capital expenditure challenges in the next 12 months.
read more...Compuware has continued to rollout graphical front-ends to its mainframe product portfolio after it announced the release of its analysis and debugging tool Xpediter, with Eclipse 2.0.
read more...Security and virtualisation specialist Nebulas Solutions has launched a product designed to help IT managers implement a fully functioning virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) within days, instead of months.
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Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture stole the limelight this year, summarily trouncing its predecessors, and the best that AMD had to offer, with considerable performance boosts and power savings. Today, Intel is announcing the Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition, an £800 CPU that distills the lessons the company has learned over the past year into a single piece of premium silicon. read more...
Fusion 4 is the newest version of VMware's virtualisation solution for the Mac, which allows you to run multiple operating systems within Mac OS X. Since we reviewed Fusion 3, VMWare has added support for Lion and the ability to create OS X Lion virtual machines, reduced the consumption of system resources to zero when you aren't running a virtual machine, redesigned the settings window, and much more. read more...
New 16-core AMD Opteron 6200-series CPUs in the Dell R715 bring huge bang for the buck to wide virtualization workloads, but not until your OS supports it read more...
The first thing you'll notice about the HP Photosmart 6510 e-All-in-One colour inkjet multifunction printer is that it looks better than the competition. But it's also a good printer, with first-rate output quality and better-than-average print speeds, though ink costs are just average. read more...
Demos, like appearances, can be deceiving. At the recent Consumer Electronics Show, one of the media hits was OnLive Desktop, a service that provisions a Windows 7 desktop environment that includes Microsoft Office 2010 to the iPad over an Internet connection. For many, the idea of being able to run the full Office suite is very appealing, given some of the limitations of the iPad's native office productivity tools such as Apple iWork suite (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers), Quickoffice, and Documents to Go. read more...
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