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Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News Few organisations, it seems, are allowing open source much further than the server room door. Ian Auger, head of IT and communications at ITN, also sounded a note of caution: "Whilst not being afraid to use open source... [28 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News The move has saved Jaguar Land Rover several million pounds compared to the cost of setting up its own Microsoft Exchange server and will offer ongoing service savings as well. Staff will get access to Google Mail within... [26 Oct 2009]
How tech is helping gamblers get that casino feeling
News My challenge is not a couple of million [euros] I spend on datacentres and server farms, not at all - that's number 60 of my priorities. The company is also looking to address user-generated content and is developing a... [23 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News Perhaps you might like to take a long hard look at your server estate. In its survey of server managers, nearly three-quarters said 15 per cent or more of their servers were not doing anything useful,... [19 Oct 2009]
Online fraudsters enlist Trojans to run off with your money
News It was linked back to a command-and-control server in Ukraine that was used to send instructions to the Trojan software sitting on infected PCs. Finjan researchers were able to trace the communications... [30 Sep 2009]
Oracle-Sun steaming ahead with joint plans despite EU probe
News Larry Ellison, the software giant's chief executive, is joining Sun's server chief, John Fowler, to show off some new Sun hardware running Oracle's software on Tuesday. Oracle is of... [15 Sep 2009]
Five critical Windows updates arrive on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday
News McAfee Avert Labs director Dave Marcus said two of the flaws, in particular, relate to serious security vulnerabilities in the networking components of Window Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows... [09 Sep 2009]
Windows 7: Unaffected by latest zero-day flaw
News Microsoft issued a formal security advisory late on Tuesday on a reported zero-day flaw in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a possible vulnerability in Microsoft... [09 Sep 2009]
Microsoft IIS flaw being exploited in attacks
News According to the advisory, the vulnerability could let somebody run arbitrary code on a server using FTP on IIS 5.0 and conduct a denial-of-service attack using FTP on IIS 5.1, 6.0, and 7.0. Customers should be aware... [07 Sep 2009]
Virtualisation: Forget datacenters, think ordinary people
News With it, the brains of a PC actually run on a central server, with a person's local machine serving as a mechanism to show the display and capture mouse clicks and keystrokes. The company in the forefront of the... [04 Sep 2009]
Cisco and EMC planning to partner up and go after large datacentres
News Citing unnamed sources who have been briefed on the plans, the Journal story said the new joint venture, codenamed Alpine, would target large businesses and would focus on installing Cisco server and networking gear and... [04 Sep 2009]
Oracle celebrates 11g's second birthday with database overhaul
News This provides server-pooling technologies, so it's easier for users to provision and manage database grids. Oracle Database 11g Release 2 is heavily focused on consolidating hardware and virtualisation, according to Mark... [02 Sep 2009]
Google says sorry for Gmail's two-hour outage: Blames 'miscalculation'
News As we now know, we had slightly underestimated the load which some recent changes (ironically, some designed to improve service availability) placed on the request routers - servers which direct web queries to the appropriate Gmail... [02 Sep 2009]
Snow Leopard for free? Most likely to get malware instead
News The Trojan alters the DNS configuration and includes two additional IP addresses in its DSN server, the blog states. Users can then be redirected to phishing sites, some of which are reportedly hosting rogue antivirus... [28 Aug 2009]
Microsoft kicks off mobile fightback with double OS
News In addition to former server executive Andy Lees, who now runs the phone business, former Mac Business unit chief Roz Ho has been leading a top secret "premium mobile experiences" team responsible for some of the "Pink"... [20 Aug 2009]
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