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RSS natureWhy the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News According to the TechMarketView report, there are around 40,000 UK nationals now working in the US software industry, and Alastair Behenna, CIO at Harvey Nash, suggested that given the global nature of big business, UK... [03 Nov 2009]
Taxman to save £110m by taking an axe to its IT estate
News Last June the former chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers Kieran Poynter criticised HMRC for the fragmented nature of its then 650 computer systems in his report into the department's loss of 25 million child benefit... [30 Oct 2009]
Barclays CIO finds a new home with SAP
News The nature of the role has changed," he told silicon.com. Don Trotta has left his role as CIO with Barclays and taken a new position with SAP. Trotta has been appointed the ERP company's SVP and global head of financial... [22 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News But for some CIOs on older OSes, the cost impetus to adopt Windows 7 is already stacking up, thanks to the aging nature of Windows XP. With software spending down 16.5 per cent year-on-year, Windows 7's launch tomorrow... [21 Oct 2009]
Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Mission Critical Applications
White Paper As companies seek to lower their total cost of ownership, adopt more standards oriented platforms, and leverage existing IT assets while not compromising on the mission critical nature of their business applications,... [15 Oct 2009]
Cost Effective Security and Compliance with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
White Paper The increasingly sophisticated nature of information theft, and the continued emergence of new data privacy protection regulations worldwide, requires strong data security. Effective information security starts by... [15 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: What is intelligence?
Comment There are many examples in nature - slime mould and jelly fish, for example. Dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi node. For more than 20 years now I have worked on artificial life and intelligence systems. [08 Oct 2009]
Cyber Liability & Higher Education Aon Professional Risk Solutions
White Paper Due to the nature and complexity of operations and the academic culture of open access, educational institutions, and in particular, large research-oriented universities, face unique exposures related to the internet and... [05 Oct 2009]
Optimizing Infrastructure Control
White Paper This paper outlines the nature of infrastructure integrity, change auditing, and compliance solutions. It describes how an investment in configuration assessment and change auditing solutions can stabilize IT operations,... [05 Oct 2009]
The Coming Storm of Regulation
White Paper The nature of this failure dictates a new approach to regulations that will drive transparency requirements and risk management adoption. The continuing financial crisis that has gripped the world since mid-2008 is... [05 Oct 2009]
Dynamic Data Center Compliance With Tripwire and Microsoft
White Paper In fact, most regulations and security standards just ensure that businesses and other types of organizations are doing what they should be doing anyway - protecting cardholder data from exposure or theft, ensuring the confidentiality of... [05 Oct 2009]
Group-Based Security in a Federated File System
White Paper The distributed file system with its dynamic nature does not require any configuration by the end users and system administrators. The SILENUS federated file system was developed by the SORCER research group at Texas... [04 Oct 2009]
Protecting PII: How to Work With IT to Manage Risk
White Paper Understand the critical nature of the test data privacy problem and tips on how to work with IT to implement a test data privacy program. Privacy professionals must make sure their IT organization is employing... [02 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo This Asus Eee PC 1008HA, known as the Seashell, takes inspiration from Mother Nature for its looks and weighs in at 1.1kg. Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer prepared to put a... [02 Oct 2009]
Montana Tests Unified Communications to Boost Responsiveness to Citizens, Cut Costs
White Paper The highly dispersed nature of state government offices and other facilities throughout Montana makes communication there a challenge. So, the state is responding by adopting communications of all types - and unifying... [02 Oct 2009]
