Recently added articles from Software World:
UK competitiveness: the role of IT services.(A CONFEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRY REPORT-JULY 2008)(Company overview)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Since 2001, the CBI has regularly surveyed UK companies' use of information technology (IT). Increasingly it has found that, in addition to automating business processes with suppliers and business partners, companies have been integrating IT and communications in order to better ...
Five reasons to review data protection and business continuity implementations.(Storage Expo 2008)
Sep 01, 2008; ... A selection of papers from exhibitors at Storage Expo 2008 the UK's definitive event for data storage, information and content management. Now in its 8th year, the show features a comprehensive FREE education programme and over 100 exhibitors at the National Hall, Olympia, London from ...
10 criteria to selecting the right enterprise business continuity software.(Storage Expo 2008)
Sep 01, 2008; ... The pressures to implement business continuity software that can span the enterprise and recover application servers grow with each passing day. Disasters come in every form and shape from regional disasters (earthquakes, floods, lightning strikes) to terrorist attacks to brown-outs to ...
The evolution of the archive.(Storage Expo 2008)(Plasmon Inc.)
Sep 01, 2008; ... While archive storage products deployed 10 years ago share some basic attributes with contemporary solutions, radical changes in business needs during the period have lead to rapid development in the issues they address and a huge expansion of their technical ability. By taking a closer ...
Is London on the brink of a data crunch?(Storage Expo 2008)
Sep 01, 2008; ... It's London's turn next and as preparations for the 2012 Olympics get into full swing the city finds itself on the verge of a data storage crisis as Canary Wharf's ability to accommodate new data centres reaches capacity. In an effort to ensure our second chance at hosting the ...
Top tips for email management and archiving.(Storage Expo 2008)
Sep 01, 2008; ... With only 20% of companies demonstrating good control on email management, Dave comments on the state of email management and archiving and notes what resellers can do to position themselves as protectors of companies' most used and valuable communication method. Just how bad ...
The great green collision.(Storage Expo 2008)(Brocade Communications Systems Inc.)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Simon Pamplin, SE Manger UK & Ireland, Brocade Among all the challenges CIOs and IT administrators currently face, two historical trends are on a collision course. Firstly, the growth in data processing is generating ever-in creasing demand for servers, storage arrays and the ...
Storage is dead: long live storage.(Storage Expo 2008)
Sep 01, 2008; ... In an age where we have more information than we can cope with and where data is growing at an exponential rate, how can storage be dead? Well, it's not, of course it isn't, however it is changing and in a few years time we'll look back and ask how we coped with it all. The reason ... ...
A sticky storage situation.(Storage Expo 2008)(Mimecast)
Sep 01, 2008 ... In light of today's strict regulatory environment, James Blake, Chief Strategist of unified email management company Mimecast discusses the need for enterprises of all sizes to adopt an email management strategy which enables companies to store and search through their emails. ...
Data protection services vs DIY protection products.(Storage Expo 2008)
Sep 01, 2008; ... There is no doubt businesses are facing a confluence of challenges in relation to secure and robust data security processes as news hits us on a daily basis of varying organisations adopting new methods or breaches in security. Online Data Protection, like many IT products and services, ...
Decision Tools 5.0.(IT News and Products)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Palisade Corporation has launched Decision-Tools Suite 5.0. The new offering is an integrated set of tools that enable users to perform a wide range of sophisticated risk analysis and decision support tasks in order to reduce uncertainty. It also incorporates Palisade's product, ...
Embarcadero[R] Performance Center[TM] 2.5.(IT News and Products)(Embarcadero Technologies Inc.)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Embarcadero Technologies has released Performance Center version 2.5. The upgraded monitoring tool incorporates features that help database administrators (DBAs) resolve performance issues and improve end-user service satisfaction levels. With this product Embarcadero focused on features ...
DataDirect Connect[R] for JDBC[TM].(IT News and Products)
Sep 01, 2008 ... DataDirect Technologies, have announced the availability of its DataDirect Connect[R] for JDBC[TM] database drivers version 4.0. The latest release of the JDBC[TM] drivers includes important new features and developer productivity capabilities with full support for the JDBC 4.0 ...
Compliance management solution.(IT News and Products)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Novell have launched a new platform designed to help customers with the critical business challenges of meeting compliance mandates and securing their IT infrastructure. Enterprises today are faced with the complexity of meeting stringent compliance requirements and protecting their ...
Fujitsu selects Apptitude.(IT News and Products)
Sep 01, 2008 ... AppDNA has announced that Fujitsu Services is using its AppTitude solution to assist in a major UK Government agency's application migration programme, as it moves its core applications from Windows 2000 to Windows Vista with Microsoft Application Virtualisation (formerly SoftGrid) ....
Free version of MDaemon Email Server for Windows.(IT News and Products)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Zen Software have announced the release of Alt-N Technologies' FREE email software version of MDaemon Email Server for Windows. MDaemon FREE supports SMTP and POP3 protocols for Windows Vista/XP/2008/2003/2000 systems. The proven performance and user-friendly design of MDaemon FREE is easy ...
eduPERT launched.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Users of the pan-European GEANT2 research network are set to benefit from faster troubleshooting of performance issues through the creation of eduPERT. A federated Performance Enhancement and Response Team (PERT), eduPERT will combine a collaborative European community of knowledge that ...
Response: Forrester reports increase in corporate Vista deployments.(IT News and Products)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Following reports from Forrester Research that large numbers of companies are deploying Microsoft Vista, Larry Nuttall, Director of file migration experts, Converter Technology, argues that the credit crunch has little impact on enterprise technology refresh cycles. Nuttall ...
Sybase and Logica partner.(IT News and Products)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Sybase, Inc. and Logica have announced an agreement to deliver integrated mobility solutions to the UK and Australian logistics and transport industries. Under the agreement, Logica will offer Sybase's mobility applications as part of its intelligent transport systems (ITS) and supply ...
Green Grid membership.(IT News and Products)(CommVault Systems Inc.)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... CommVault recently announced its membership in The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centres and business computing ecosystems. The Green Grid is chartered to develop industry-wide standards, measuring methods, processes and new technologies ...