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How to reuse your old virtual hosts

An upgrade from VMware ESX to vSphere doesn't have to mean throwing your old hosts away


5 Strategies to Back Up Your Data, Now

Every year you say you'll be better at keeping your data backed up, but then life happens.


How to solve the data challenge, with environmental efficiency

Manage the growth of data in a green way.


Case Study: Water-cooled servers gaining steam

The secret lies in its efficiency.


Case Study: On the ball

Rugby football club picks Asigra


Case Study: Protecting sensitive information in transit

Encrypted USB devices from MXI Security


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Sirius Engineering Team

Karmic Koala polish fixes EPS support issues in Inkscape

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The requirement for a new brochure last week got me tackling one of those periodic (and in my case instantly forgettable) gotchas - how to do I import EPS images into Inkscape? I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for years but...read more.

David Cartwright

Sungard's John and Bob: the guys who get it to work

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Last night I spent a delightful two-and-a-half hours on the phone. And this despite the fact that: (a) it was Saturday night; and (b) the call started at 10pm which meant I was sitting at my desk instead of down...read more.

Maxwell Cooter

Counting the (real) cost

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Energy efficiency - that's the name of the game.Every company I meet these days drops energy efficiency (or power efficiency - the terms seem to be interchangeable, suggesting that rather a large number of people in the IT business skipped...read more.

John E. Dunn

Windows 7 - a computing tax people are willing to pay

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In the Internet age, operating systems are made little by little, update by update. So why the fuss about Windows 7 upgrade which comes on a DVD inside a cardboard box?Every other bit of software feels like a choice, but...read more.

Featured White Papers

Understanding ITIL service portfolio management

Examining the various components of the service portfolio, and exploring technologies available to develop and manage the service portfolio and to leverage the information contained in the catalogue.
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Data-Deduplication – Reducing Data to the Minimum

There’s a new technology in the storage world that everyone is talking about: data deduplication. Many suppliers are currently offering a wide range of different deduplication solutions designed to help IT operators to drastically reduce the volume of data they are backing up.
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Enterprise Gateway Security: A necessity for any company on the Internet

As enterprises invest ever-increasing time and resources into ensuring network availability and performance, the opportunity for catastrophic failures due to security holes becomes more and more prevalent. Traditional network defense approaches have not kept pace with the sophistication of applications on the Internet, which use email and the Web as primary communications methods. As applications have become more dynamic and sophisticated, so too have the malicious attacks that take advantage of the access granted by these applications.
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Techworld White Papers

Database security: Preventing enterprise data leaks at the source

IDC discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data, and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices...

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Service-oriented security

SOA has become an integral part of enterprise software by providing a framework to efficiently develop software as services that is easily sharable, reusable, and integrated. No where is the need more apparent than in the Identity Management space. Welcome to the age of Service-Oriented Security (SOS).

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Data protection prospective vendor checklist

Organisations need a way to map business needs against all these challenges in procuring a technical solution. To help, SANS has developed the following Prospective Vendor Checklist.

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Best practices for optimising performance and availability in virtual infrastructures

Many IT administrators have already learned the hard way that managing the performance and availability of services built on virtualisation technologies can be difficult, if not impossible at times. All too often, early adopters of virtualisation have struggled with limited technology features and stability constraints, while learning new ways to effectively manage capacity requirements.

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COLT White Paper

Are all VoIP services the same?

Questions to ask your service provider to ensure you get the VoIP service you need
With careful choice of partner, your business can have all the advantages of VoIP access - reduced costs, flexibility and simplicity - without the drawbacks.
This white paper is your guide to ensure you get right the VoIP service and details the pitfalls which businesses would do well to avoid.

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Unlock the hidden IT opportunities in troubled economic times

How to take advantage of the growth potential that will occur when the economy rebounds
With the right approach, processes, and technology, it’s possible for IT to provide higher-quality services for a lower cost, while also empowering the business to position itself to take advantage of the growth potential that will occur when the economy rebounds.

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