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The Weekly Round-Up: 16.10.09
Round-Up Perhaps Mr Tiddles will have to be persuaded to have his photo taken again, this time wearing a top hat and a bow tie… Plenty of times, the Round-Up is sure. You've probably got your own horror tale of relationships... [16 Oct 2009]
Virtualization and Disk Performance
White Paper This white paper analyzes the virtual machine, performance-threatening dangers, and their real-time solutions. Virtualization marks the next evolution in data storage technology. Virtual disks are uniquely susceptible to... [16 Oct 2009]
How File Fragmentation Occurs on Windows XP / Windows Server 2003
White Paper This, in conjunction with the algorithms used to allocate the free space, defeat the very best efforts of any defragmenter the very next time a person goes off and surfs the web. A while ago there was a little research... [16 Oct 2009]
Tax-refund phishing scams hit an all-time high
News The number of scam emails offering fake tax refunds hit an all-time high last month. At the time HMRC said it had received reports of 11,000 scam emails in the previous nine months. According to HM... [16 Oct 2009]
Data to Intelligence: The BI Advantage for Financial Services
White Paper Find out how leading financial enterprises are turning to sophisticated data warehousing techniques, real-time analytics, improved data quality, and intelligent metrics to find competitive advantage. [15 Oct 2009]
CA Standardizes Business Intelligence and Reporting Infrastructure with BusinessObjects Enterprise XI
White Paper Find out how CA used the same SAP BusinessObjects tool across multiple products to reduce their customers' costs and reduce the time it takes them to create their own customized reports. [15 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: The five things you need to be thinking about now
News There are a lot of organisations that have a really hard time building a business case to replace client operating systems, so for a lot of organisations, while Windows 7 has lots of interesting features, a lot of... [15 Oct 2009]
Mainframe Rehosting With Oracle Tuxedo: Accelerating Cost Reduction and Application Modernization
White Paper Find out how mainframe rehosting lets IT professionals spend more time and money on development rather than on maintaining aging systems. This free whitepaper explains how you can unlock the value of key... [15 Oct 2009]
Could hackspaces hold the key to business innovation?
Comment Where to look for the next wave of corporate innovation? It might just come from renegade geeks, says Richard Leyland. There's a new type of tech geek emerging. They have proved their mettle in collaborative 'hackspaces', display a... [14 Oct 2009]
'A full-scale switch to Macs is laughable'
Comment Another reader, an iPhone and Mac app developer from San Francisco, added: "Years and years ago it was demonstrated that it costs no more to support a heterogeneous environment of Macs and PCs than it does to support a PC-only... [13 Oct 2009]
Cash won't cut it: Time to get creative in attracting skilled workers
Comment They don't have to be in the office at a certain time, or any time. But you will have to think unconventionally to attract them. If you thought the credit crunch was bad for business, wait until you hit... [13 Oct 2009]
Photos: 10 of the best open source mobiles
Photo However, Android wasn't the first mobile Linux effort by any means: work on open source mobiles by the LiMo Foundation, as well as the Openmoko project was already underway by the time the Google OS was announced. [12 Oct 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News Of its list of trends, regarding real-time BI, the researchers said: "A few years ago, business intelligence was about improved efficiency of back-office reporting; today, firms compete based on insights from analytics. [12 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.10.09
Round-Up Nearly half of Brits spend more time chatting to friends online than on the phone or face-to-face, according to the Yahoo! There's just enough time to tell you about the rest of the news… I've just been... [09 Oct 2009]
Sainsbury's tech shopping spree revealed
News One of the ways the retailer has helped bolster its bottom line is by implementing a new system called real time supply, which ensures its stores are stocked with products. Information on store sales is fed straight from... [09 Oct 2009]
