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Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News The codebreaking veterans gather outside the Bletchley Park manor house to show off their medals The work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers is credited with shortening the Second World War by two years. [05 Nov 2009]
Whose IT budget has been hit the hardest?
News Financial services is not making the steepest cuts, however: that honour goes to the agriculture mining and construction industry with a 9.2 per cent year-on-year fall, followed by the discrete manufacturing industry with an 8.5 per cent... [04 Nov 2009]
Photos: Inside a Microsoft datacentre
Photo Containers will eventually house two-thirds of the servers in the datacentre, with the more traditional server rooms upstairs accounting for the remainder. Microsoft recently opened its Chicago datacentre. [04 Nov 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News Nicholas Bellenberg, IT director at Hachette Filipacchi, said all of the publishing house's web development is based on open source technology: "I can't imagine why anyone would use anything different! [28 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet While analyst house ABI Research notes that AR technology has been with us for more than 15 years, the company is predicting dramatic growth in the take-up of the tech over the next five years - driven by mobile... [27 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News JLR's move to Google Apps is the company's first step towards simplifying the IT infrastructure it runs in-house and farming out more of its IT services to outsourcers and cloud providers. Jaguar Land Rover already works... [26 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.10.09
Round-Up Yet more serendipity: the Round-Up moved house recently and while it did in fact check out how close the nearest BT exchange was, more time was definitely spent checking out the local boozers. We British love our broadband. [23 Oct 2009]
Will 'citizen developers' shake up IT development?
News Now step forward the 'citizen developer' - an individual set to play an increasingly important role in creating business apps, according to analyst house Gartner. The analyst reckons the rise of citizen developers is... [23 Oct 2009]
Mind the details with Windows 7
Comment That was the day I decided it was time to upgrade one particularly critical machine we use around the house. Gartner's Stephen Kleynhans has been happy with his initial installs of Windows 7 - but it isn't perfect. [23 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News Mark Blowers, principal analyst at research house Ovum, explained: "If you have to make a large investment, I don't think you could swing it just on sustainability benefits in the current climate, whereas perhaps 18... [22 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News The signs are that the shift to Windows 7 will begin in earnest next year, with Quocirca analyst Clive Longbottom predicting large deployments by business will begin in March 2010 and a survey by analyst house Forrester... [21 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: The five things you need to be thinking about now
News According to analyst house Gartner, there are a number of issues companies should already be considering ahead of any planned switch - including the need to put an end to Windows XP. With the launch of Windows 7 just a... [15 Oct 2009]
Rid your business of weak passwords and get collaborating
Comment Such services are provided on a subscription basis in the cloud without the overheads associated with managing systems and services in house. A leading user-facing analyst house known for its focus on... [15 Oct 2009]
Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Database Machine
White Paper Whether supporting OLTP, DW or mixed workloads, a common infrastructure delivers the efficiencies and reusability the data center needs and provides the reality of cloud computing in-house. Businesses today... [15 Oct 2009]
It's down to you to save the world, IT industry
News With high-resolution video becoming increasingly affordable, we do now have an increasing number of viable options for replacing physical business travel with other alternatives," service director of analyst house... [13 Oct 2009]
