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RSS europeClouds clear as Microsoft gives Azure a January launch date
News Azure's storage service will also be updated, with data geo-replicated across pairs of datacentres - for example, in Europe, datacentres in Amsterdam and Dublin - from January. Microsoft's cloud-based computing platform... [18 Nov 2009]
How CIOs can achieve post-recession success
Comment It turns out that fewer CIOs report to the CEOs in Europe than in other regions of the world. How will the 'new normal' impact CIOs in Europe? Michael Chui is a senior fellow of the McKinsey Global... [18 Nov 2009]
Trojan bank fraud gang sentenced
News The Trojan then used the information to create new transactions that sent money from the victim's account through a web of middlemen, known as money mules, to other members of the international criminal network in Eastern... [17 Nov 2009]
Ingersoll Rand Increases Business Agility With Microsoft Online Services
White Paper The company conducts manufacturing and assembly operations in 29 plants in the United States; 31 plants in Europe; 14 plants in Asia; 6 plants in Latin America and 1 plant in Canada. Ingersoll-Rand Company Limited is a... [16 Nov 2009]
Spamware - Email Address Harvesting Tools and Anonymous Bulk Emailing Software
White Paper In fact, software writers in Eastern Europe, Russia, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere have developed tools that enable spammers to spam more effectively. Spam works because it is such a low-cost, high-reach endeavor. [13 Nov 2009]
Photos: The latest Windows Phones from HTC, Sony Ericsson
Photo The HD2 is available now in Europe from operators including Vodafone. While Microsoft's share of the mobile OS market may have waned of late, Windows Mobile continues to find its way onto shiny new hardware. [13 Nov 2009]
Using NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager for Unix Assessments
White Paper There are several information security control frameworks available to help one get started in creating IT controls for assessment and reporting to meet compliance requirements: ISO17799 from the International Standards Organization in... [12 Nov 2009]
£500,000 fine coming for businesses that lose data?
News Stored or processed personal data in a country outside of Europe that does not have adequate data protection legislation Organisations that lose individuals' data could face a fine of up to £500,000 under proposals being... [12 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News In 1943 Rosenberg was stationed with the 21st Army Group, which was sweeping across Northern Europe towards Germany after routing the Nazi army during the Normandy beach landings. But for three decades, those who worked... [05 Nov 2009]
Europe: Brace yourself for a telecoms overhaul
News The European Parliament and Council of Telecoms Ministers have reached a compromise over the rights of internet users continent-wide, setting Europe on course for a major overhaul of telecoms regulations. [05 Nov 2009]
Outsourcing the data centre to a carrier neutral data centre operator in Europe
White Paper Should you outsource your data centre? You should if your organization has mission critical IT services, latency dependent Web services, business critical applications, or Internet centric services that need to be constantly available. [30 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Adam Gerrard, CIO, Avis Europe Despite tough economic conditions, CIOs have not turned to open source software as a way of making their IT budgets go further, according to silicon.com's latest exclusive CIO Jury. [23 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News In the wake of energy prices that hit 12.5 euro cents per kWh, the cost to power datacentres in Western Europe increased 13 per cent year on year in 2008, to reach €4.9bn. IDC said if the overall datacentre power bills... [19 Oct 2009]
Next-gen IP kicks off in Europe
News Enisa, The European Network and Information Security Agency, announced this week it's the first EU agency to offer services using version 6 of the Internet Protocol. It's now offering website content over IPv6, following an internal... [15 Oct 2009]
Telecoms worker? You're in demand. Techie? Not so much
News Telecoms vacancies increased by 10 per cent month-on-month in September - the highest growth rate across the industry sectors monitored by the Monster Employment Index Europe. ICT workers looking for a new job should... [14 Oct 2009]
