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Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News Forrester database analyst Noel Yuhanna said open-source databases can now meet about 80 per cent of existing business application needs. He wrote: "Some customers are running mission-critical transactional deployments with over 3TB of data on open... [24 Jul 2008]
Online retail takes 20p of the shopper's pound
News Online shopping is poised to take 20p out of every UK consumer pound by the end of the year, a landmark milestone that analysts believe will make the channel a critical business for many high-street retailers. [18 Jul 2008]
Jonathan Zittrain on why the internet is on a knife edge
News They're more appealing now because today's average user is far less technically sophisticated than the online users of the early 1980s - the first adopters - and because the work we do with our IT is much more mission critical to us than in the... [30 Jun 2008]
Warning: ID cards face fingerprint errors
News Exception handling has a large impact not only on the technical elements of the scheme but on business processes. The ID scheme will be rolled out over the next four years, starting with about 10 million "critical" workers in 2009, young people in... [20 Jun 2008]
Google Android facing a fragmented future?
News A Google spokesperson said: "The idea behind putting together the OHA was to create a critical mass of standard implementations of Android. If that critical mass exists, the motivation to fragment decreases. [13 Jun 2008]
Watch out business - Vista's after you
News After targeting consumers, Microsoft is now aiming its PR offensive at business customers. Compared with Windows XP, Vista has had fewer vulnerabilities (45 for Vista versus 56 for XP); fewer critical vulnerabilities (17 as opposed to 35); and 60... [05 Jun 2008]
BT to cut CO2 emissions by 80 per cent
News It is a powerful tool for embedding sustainability into organisations worldwide and critical in effecting change. During the next year BT will also conduct a trial of electric vehicles in two of its lines of business and will pilot the use of bio... [03 Jun 2008]
Want to progress in IT? Then be a business swot
News The higher the job level, the more critical it is for the IT professional to hold such business acumen as the impact a more senior IT member has on business issues is greater. Regardless of whether the role of IT practitioners in the organisation... [02 Jun 2008]
Building society streamlines system support
News In both cases processes which used to be complex and involve more than one tier of support have been simplified, allowing systems staff to concentrate on more business-critical tasks. Cardiff-based Principality head of IT, Dave Mills, told silicon... [27 May 2008]
Red Chilli aflame for hosted backup
News We store a lot of confidential financial information and safe, secure back up systems are critical to our business. Independent property finance advisory firm Red Chilli has outsourced its disaster recovery and backup systems to Thinking Safe... [23 May 2008]
Cloud computing: Ready to experiment with
News Swaminathan said: "Say the business unit wants to do something new. If it isn't critical, why not test it on the cloud? A company's CIO cannot keep up with the innovation of these companies simply because that's their core business. [23 May 2008]
Credit crunch not hitting IT spend
News In addition, companies are becoming less enamoured with the idea of shifting their IT to outsourcers, or of offshoring or nearshoring their business, according to Gartner's survey. When it comes to outsourcing, 65 per cent of respondents to the... [21 May 2008]
Outsourcing: Not just about cutting costs?
News Instead the key is to treat outsourcers as an arm of the business, with customers expecting suppliers to have intimate knowledge of their workings and to get access to top-flight skills across the globe from their suppliers. [12 May 2008]
600 HMRC workers caught snooping
News The HMRC has discussed 11 data security incidents involving customer information with the Information Commissioner's Office since April 2005, has stopped data transfers unless there is a business critical need and now demands adequate security... [01 May 2008]
O2 woos SMEs with broadband deal
News Mobile operator O2 UK has launched a business broadband service and extended the coverage of its home broadband offering to the whole of the UK from today. The Business Broadband offering is targeted at SMEs and, as with O2's Home Broadband service... [01 May 2008]
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