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Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency

Spoken like someone without a clueBut then again, what can be expected from trolls anymore?Originality?Security & AccessGrant the LEAST amount of access for the end user.DENY then ALLOW, why would you open up Port 80 to the world if you only do business in the United States or local area...

Tags: agency, cloud provider, legality, data centre, security

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

IBM data center gets energy overhaul

A holistic approach ...... is what is required for any attempt at sustainability that is to be taken seriously. The article has a subheading suggesting that the physical architecture has been considered as part of the overall design, but then talks only about the cooling systems.And there is no...

Tags: IBM Corp., data centre, IBM data center, data center

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Data Centre Assessments: The First Step to Optimisation

Data centres are large, important investments that, when properly designed, built and operated, are an integral part of the business strategy driving the success of any organisation. Yet the central focus of organisations is often the acquisition and deployment of the IT architecture equipment and systems with little thought given...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Centre, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Management

White papers 2009-03-01

The New Reality of Balance and Optimisation in Planning Green Data Centres

The recent release of the US Environmental Protection Agency EPA study on data centre energy efficiency is adding fuel to the fire in the research and development of new ways to reduce energy use in data centres. Even though the industry has taken a major step forward in looking at...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Data Centre, Research & Development, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Business Operations, Management

White papers 2009-01-01

Seven Design Considerations for a Green Data Centre

IT departments are under increasing scrutiny and pressure to deliver environmentally-sound solutions. Large data centres are one of the most significant energy consumers in an organisation's IT infrastructure, so any measures that one can take to reduce this consumption and therefore also carbon dioxide emissions will have a positive impact...

Tags: Information Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Dimension Data, IT Department, Data Centre, Strategy, Management

White papers 2007-12-10

Additional Resources

Outsourcing the data centre to a carrier neutral data centre operator in Europe

Should you outsource your data centre? You should if your organization has mission critical IT services, latency dependent Web services, business critical applications, or Internet centric services that need to be constantly available. Hear industry experts as they take a look at how some of today's most successful organizations are...

Tags: Carrier, Data Management, Storage, Outsourcing, Databases, Hardware, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2009-10-28

Microsoft says 'steady progress' continues in Sidekick data recovery

Yet another black_eyeFalling from within, with too many eggs in thesame basket this sets you up for failure.Linux distro devices and appliances are the future,with Windows the flaw is IE that is welded inplace with explorer.exe the Achilles heal ofMS.;) Well,...did you realise that Danger is not even running a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Stack, supposition, data recovery

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

"Most, if not all" Sidekick data recovered

Well this is going to be interesting...So they had a catastrophic screw up and it looks like they worked their tales off to get it fixed.So that got a big black eye but at the same time it looks like they got it fixed. Whoever fixed this just got...

Tags: Backups, backup

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Sidekick outage says more about the future of 'Pink' than Microsoft's cloud

This isn't about any service.This is about Microsoft in general. It brings up the question of whether they can manage a server environment. It doesn't matter what that environment is. Preservation of data is always job one. And this is the job where the failure occurred. So Pink, Azure, cloud,...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Corp., Azure, job, Pink, IT administration

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

SaaS for your business in the cloud

Good Points Phil,Good article. I'm seeing the same dynamics "in the trenches" as the founder of a small but rapidly-growing SaaS firm.There is much less resistance from buyers to signing up for SaaS deals than there would have been two years ago. Part of this is because buyers...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, business benefit

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Centrinet case study

Centrinet launched an innovative business service - Smartbunker - based on renewable energy and energy-efficient technologyefficient IBM BladeCenter servers and Cisco networking hardware, It's the UK's first managed data centre service committed to zero carbon energy. This unique proposition drastically reduces power consumption by around 60%. ...

Tags: IBM Corp., Blade Servers, Telecom & Utilities, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2009-09-16

QuiX New (Mobile)

Mobile Questionnaire Management System The QuiX questionnaire management system is based on the MobiAccess tmframework. Using QuiX significantly reduces information gathering and evaluation turnaround time. Electronic data recording ensures quick and error free data entry that results in more efficient survey processing compared to paper based methods. Mobile questionnaire management...

Tags: Mobile, Survey, QuiX, Marketing Research, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-08

Cloud Computing: Thin clients in the cloud

Cloud services represent an attractive and cost efficient continuation of server-based computing and application service provider models. In combination with universal thin client solutions, the cost benefits can apply not only to the data centre but also to the desktop.

Tags: Cloud Computing, Thin Client, Thin Clients, Hardware

White papers 2009-09-01

HP Storage Essentials: Delivering on the Promise of Storage Automation

Today's IT service is very complex. To support the agility and performance goals demanded by the business, IT needs to automate the processes that manage the IT service infrastructure. Without automation, IT processes incur co-ordination latencies and are error prone. HP Storage Essentials is a comprehensive storage resources management solution...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Automation, HP Storage Essentials, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-08-01

WinMagic Case Study: SickKids

Wanting to take every possible precaution to protect all data on the laptops and removable media utilized by its medical, research and administrative staff, the Hospital for Sick Children SickKids, Canada's most research-intensive hospital and the largest centre dedicated to improving children's health, began researching full-disk encryption solutions. SickKids wanted...

Tags: WinMagic, Encryption Solution, Notebooks, Healthcare, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Case studies 2009-07-31

FS Master Pro 1.0 (Windows)

FS master is the optimum software for data and text security. With this useful software, you can protect all your data from unauthorized access keeping all your files intact. With this software, your privacy is secured. It has several features you will not find in any of its kind. Such...

Tags: Software, Password, Microsoft Windows, SenJen, FS Master

Software downloads 2009-07-28

IBM System x Enterprise Servers in the New Enterprise Data centre

Virtualization changes everything! Once you start to virtualize your servers and storage, you will find that you can enjoy a higher degree of server utilization and simpler, more comprehensive server management. But you must have the right partner and the right tools in order to get the most value...

Tags: Enterprise Server, IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-07-01

Quantifying the Benefits of HP Server Automation

Over the past few years, managing data centre environments has become one of the most costly functions of IT, with over 70 per cent of budgets going toward the management of existing systems. IT teams are under more pressure than ever to reduce costs and risks while delivering increasing value...

Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Benefit, Automation, IT Team, Strategy, Servers, Management, Hardware

White papers 2009-07-01

Virtual SMB Centre in a Box?

What types of organizations have the most efficient IT operations? Data centers that provide highly available and resilient services with a minimum of human intervention and management? IT shops that can deploy new applications quickly and scale existing workloads to handle unpredictable demand spikes? And, just as importantly,...

Tags: Information Technology, SAP AG, Small And Medium Business, Data Centers, Smb/Sme, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management

White papers 2009-06-23

NHLM Virtualisation

This Intel whitepaper examines how server virtualization is helping IT organizations improve data centre productivity in fundamental ways. It shows how you can consolidate multiple operating systems and applications per physical server, reducing the size and costs of your IT infrastructure, while enabling you to deploy new applications in minutes....

Tags: Information Technology, Intel Corp., Server Virtualization, Strategy, Cloud Computing, Servers, Hardware, Virtualization, Management

White papers 2009-06-22