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HP close to buying EDS for $12bn

News An agreement between the world's largest computer maker and the IT services provider could come as early as Tuesday, according to the Journal. It's perfectly consistent with what HP has been trying to do to become more of a solutions provider...

Tags: hurd, compaq, eds, hp

[13 May 2008]

Cheques go up in smoke but plastic is fantastic

News It found plastic cards accounted for 65 per cent of all UK spending last year, rising by 11 per cent in value in 2007. Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008…   Video: CIO Agenda 2008   Naked CIO: The...

Tags: debit cards, cheques, apacs

[12 May 2008]

Shipping Firm Centralizes IT With Data Center Network and WAN

whitepaper The Panalpina Group wanted to shift IT spending from systems maintenance to delivery of innovation and avoid US$500,000 in capital cost for Toronto data center upgrade. Every day, over 14,000 employees at The Panalpina Group, in 500 offices around...

Tags: switching

[11 May 2008]

Municipality Reduces Backup Time by 96 Percent, Gives Users File Restore Capabilities

whitepaper From its data center in Woodside, the IT department for BME delivers services to the bureau's four borough repair shops and the Central Repair Shop. Data backup and recovery tasks were becoming increasingly challenging, with backup jobs running too...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

University Simplifies IT Management, Speeds Up File Search Time With Desktop Tool

whitepaper However, they had been spending many hours each week searching through the hundreds of e-mail messages and other files on their computers. The school's IT staff members now have a search tool that is easy to install and simple to manage.

Tags: desktop systems - pcs

[11 May 2008]

Unified Communications and Collaboration in Insurance: Pervasive Capabilities for Where and How People Work

whitepaper IT departments are constantly being asked to deliver more services to increase business efficiency - while at the same time, spending less money and using fewer resources to do it. In Insurance environment, business needs drive IT requirements.

Tags: voice - data integration

[11 May 2008]

Getting to the Next Generation Data Center - A 4-Stage Approach

whitepaper But spending reductions associated with these solutions have often been accompanied by increased operating and management costs, as well as pressure for even higher levels of service. With the advent of new technologies around virtualization and...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Students Use Online Collaboration to Improve Study Habits and Learning Outcomes

whitepaper To reduce spending, the IT department decided to replace its aging, expensive, in-house student e-mail solution with a hosted solution. In Joplin, Missouri Southern State University (MSSU) offers students a high-quality education while striving to...

Tags: collaborative web

[10 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08

Round-Up Of course, this is exactly what it was doing for a number of years before it considered spending $45bn on Yahoo! He added: "We need to continue to do more to make sure that taxpayers' money always goes to those who need it the most.

Tags: yahoo, microsoft, governement

[09 May 2008]

IT spend in retail slowing down?

News IT spending growth in the retail sector appears to have faltered, with many retailers trying to do more with the same money, according to the latest IT in Retail report. It reflects the views of 100 top UK retailers with the combined annual sales...

Tags: online retail, torex

[07 May 2008]

Whitbread serves up £1m saving on card payments

News Hospitality group Whitbread has deployed an end-to-end card payment system that is expected to save it £1m per year in payments processing costs. Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008…   Video: CIO Agenda 2008...

Tags: pos, chip and pin, pci

[07 May 2008]

Photos: Tech ensures a smoother course

Photo It's easy to send pictures to the outside world to explain what it is like to sail single-handed around the world. However, Josse will doubtless be spending most of his time in the cockpit manning the tiller, looking out for 'growlers' (small...

Tags: yacht, ellen mcarthur, bt

[02 May 2008]

IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?

News IBM is expanding in so-called green data centres as it looks for new growth areas in developed regions such as Western Europe, as well as in developing countries that are spending heavily on new technology infrastructure.

Tags: data centres, ibm, green

[01 May 2008]

RFID Basics for Retailers

whitepaper With global RFID standards coming into place, the key technology providers are now spending the millions and millions of dollars necessary to gain the system performance increases, reliability and cost reductions that the market needs.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, standards, rfid, date

[01 May 2008]

An Introduction to Windows Server 2008 Server Manager

whitepaper Spending time studying and learning the Server Manager console may be the quickest way to become familiar with Windows Server 2008. This white paper will introduce the Server Manager console and will help you find your way around it, so that you...

Tags: systems integration, manager, console, server manager

[30 Apr 2008]

House of Lords backs data loss law change

News Peers supported an amendment to the criminal justice and immigration bill which would make it a criminal offence to carelessly release or lose personal data. The amendment, proposed by Liberal Democrat Lady Miller, would make it an offence for...

Tags: data breach, full disclosure, data loss

[28 Apr 2008]

Global security spend to hit $10.5bn

News The need for businesses to be compliant with government regulations, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, remains a significant factor driving security-spending decisions, where investments are justified simply because the damage from breaches is...

Tags: smes, security

[28 Apr 2008]

Protecting Your SQL Database

whitepaper Do you want to protect your SQL database rapidly without spending thousands of dollars on enterprise versions? You will learn how easy it is to install and configure ExpressCluster to protect your SQL investment!

Tags: network disaster recovery, recovery, protect, virtualization

[24 Apr 2008]

Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum

Comment The Naked CIO: The true cost of IT The Naked CIO: IT staff disloyalty In fact, even now I can remember the hot flush of rage I felt when I couldn't get a game to work after spending hours every night for a week inputting a program.

Tags: sinclair, commodore, spectrum

[22 Apr 2008]

UK online spend up 50 per cent this year

News Green IT from A-Z… She said people may be spending more time at home instead of going out as they watch the pennies and the unseasonably cold weather also contributed to this. UK consumers spent £13bn online in the first three months of this year...

Tags: consumer electronics, alcohol, online retail

[22 Apr 2008]

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