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HP Partner Cnetics Helps Fast-Growing Georgia Government Agency Save Time and Money Using HP Bladesystem

whitepaper Cnetics Technologies wanted to provide server consolidation and security management services at an affordable price and build a scalable easy-to-manage IT infrastructure. As a result it reduced total cost of ownership and enhanced ability to handle...

Tags: blades

[16 May 2008]

Gov't department readies for Vista rollout

News Although it's unclear if Defra is the first central government department to commit to a Vista deployment, it is among the early adopters. Speaking to silicon.com, Mike Haigh, government marketing manager for Microsoft in the UK, said: "We've...

Tags: upgrade, encryption, carbon, defra

[15 May 2008]

Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes

News E-crime is not explicitly identified as one of Soca's priority areas - drug trafficking, organised immigration crime and fraud - as set by the government. But whereas the report details scores of successful operations to stop drug trafficking there...

Tags: nhtcu, soca, cyber crime

[15 May 2008]

Open source: UK dragging its heels

News Three years ago, Taylor said, an Office of Government Commerce study reached the same conclusion: a lot of government departments had signed up for an open-source project, only to leave when they found they were locked in.

Tags: europe, uk, open source

[15 May 2008]

Secondary Market Research: Getting the Most for the Least

whitepaper Some examples of this type of data include government statistics, reports by industry associations, and analyses prepared by professional market research firms. The trick, however, is finding that data and then using it effectively.

Tags: business management

[15 May 2008]

Understanding Advanced Backup Reporting

whitepaper At the same time, government regulations and corporate governance are becoming a reality, and IT departments are being pressured to "Prove" backup and recovery service-level compliance. Veritas Backup Reporter provides advanced backup reporting to...

Tags: back-up

[15 May 2008]

Go Green With Home Agents: How a Virtual Contact Center Can Be Good for Profitability, Competitiveness, and the Environment

whitepaper Government directives in Europe and Asia likely affect the operations there. It's too small to be visible to the naked eye, but it's causing a shift in global business that's hard to ignore. Or it might be the employees who are asking the company...

Tags: call center - contact

[15 May 2008]

IT education org takes Microsoft grumbles to EC

News Becta, the organisation that advises the UK government on educational IT, has escalated its complaint over the interoperability of Microsoft's products to the European Commission. Green IT from A-Z… Lucey said: "It is not just the interests of...

Tags: becta, ec, eu, microsoft

[14 May 2008]

Next Generation Federal Data Center Architectures

whitepaper The United States Government's E-Gov initiative established the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Program to build a business-driven Information Technology (IT) blueprint for the federal government.

Tags: data center

[14 May 2008]

Data Center Consolidation

whitepaper Looking at the major trends in the Federal agency IT environment, it is clear that DCC is at a tipping point, with widespread action imminent in all sectors of government. As both technology and government agency management systems improve, so too...

Tags: data center

[14 May 2008]

A Layered Approach to Laptop Security for Education

whitepaper These incidents may also have serious legal consequences, potentially violating government regulations. Learn how Internet-based IT asset tracking simplifies the management of school laptops and reduces the cost of 1:1 programs.

Tags: asset management, laptops, tracking, school

[14 May 2008]

Arms Manufacturer Centralizes Server and Monitoring Software for Increased Efficiencies

whitepaper Remington Arms Company, one of the world's largest arms manufacturers, designs, produces, and sells sporting goods products as well as products tailored to military, government, and law enforcement uses.

Tags: monitoring systems

[14 May 2008]

The PCI Data Security Standard: It's Everywhere Your Credit Card Data Wants to Be

whitepaper Unfortunately, these events are usually followed by calls in the press and government for additional data protection legislation. Unfortunately (and through no fault of Visa), a great deal of credit card data and other sensitive information has...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

UK companies: Leaking like a sieve?

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. The majority of UK businesses, 79 per cent, are losing data at least once per month, according to the survey of 250 senior IT...

Tags: data breach, security, data loss

[12 May 2008]

Video app the highway to healthy roads

News It can identify road furniture, such as signage, street lighting, road markings bus lanes and speed cameras and can be integrated with existing asset management systems to provide performance benchmarks on road maintenance to the statutory...

Tags: video, road, hampshire

[12 May 2008]

Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action

Photo The British government initially funded the project but withdrew funding when they saw very little progress made. It can actually print numerals on paper or make an impression onto plaster, therefore creating a cast to be used over and over again.

Tags: history museum, babbage

[12 May 2008]

Outlawed: Reckless loss of data

News It marks a major milestone in silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign calling for legislation to make companies or authorities that lose personal data accountable.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the...

Tags: data breach, full disclosure, data loss

[12 May 2008]

Convert Legal Documents to Different Word Processing Formats

whitepaper Government and court system Web sites also make electronic documents available on the Internet, and frequently an attorney must use these documents when dealing with those agencies. A file format is the way a program stores information in a file so...

Tags: business management

[12 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08

Round-Up Call it a miserable old cynic but The Round-Up's guessing the government won't lose too much sleep over unclaimed benefits. Now the horse has long since bolted, the government decides to shut the stable door and secure its data.

Tags: yahoo, microsoft, governement

[09 May 2008]

Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT

News These computational workhorses and their predecessors at the Met Office Hadley Centre crunched through global data to produce evidence for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, whose predictions of a 0.2C temperature rise per...

Tags: met office, energy, green it

[09 May 2008]

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