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BMC is bulking up its business service management capabilities by adding Tideway's Foundation IT discovery software, which helps companies map their business applications to their physical and virtual infrastructure
Broadband speed is a key factor in where British people choose to live: four out of ten admit they would not move to a house if it had a 'poor broadband service'
Business ISP Star is offering a service that will allow organisations to offload virtual server management onto its own hosted machines
Small businesses won't let postal workers stop them. They will move online, a BT conference heard.
XP's domination of business PCs looks likely to end with the arrival of Windows 7,Forrester has predicted, although question marks remain over timeframes
The man in charge of IBM's $20 billion a year hardware business has been arrested over an insider trading scheme that illegally netted $25 million
The Tories claim that the proposed 50p tax will be scrapped while the government is issuing mixed messages about its broadband ambitions
Accenture completes its acquisition of the professional services unit of Nokia, a move that will help take Accenture more directly into the business of servicing embedded and mobile operating system
Software licences are a fiction, and open source is ready for use by every consumer, says Jeremy Ruston, BT's head of open source innovation.
Is there really such a thing as a mainframe monopoly, and is the Federal probe into IBM's activity just a storm in a teacup?
IT managers are expecting a little more money in their budgets for 2010 according to one report, but it seems that cost cutting, return on investment and doing more with less, will still preoccupy most CIOs for the time being
Good news for Microsoft as the nightmare reception of Vista by the business sector looks to be over, after a new report suggested that Windows 7 will likely to face a much better reception than its predecessor
Feuding chip giants Intel and AMD are once again clashing over Intel's antitrust lawsuit, with both parties claiming the other is continuing to destroy key documents
The European Space Agency says the Gaia galaxy-mapping project will cut its computing costs by 50 percent by using cloud computing
Lord Mandelson's plan to cut off Internet file sharers is under attack from TalkTalk - using the music of Barry Manilow
Now that Tandberg shareholders have rejected Cisco Systems' $3 billion bid, the networking giant has to decide whether to up its offer or walk away
Over 50 percent of UK organisations block access to social media sites, because Facebook data could be required in legal eDisclosure requests
IT professionals are being judged by efficiency, not results - and they need to understand the best way to get that, according to an eWEEK Europe guide
The gloves are coming off in the virtualisation market after Citrix launched a migration program designed to lure users away from VMware to Citrix's XenServer or Microsoft's Hyper-V
A national partnership has been launched today at Bletchley Park, to encourage UK local authorities to look at implementing open source solutions in all areas of their education services, in order to save up to £60 million a year
But it's just a stepping stone to the eventual aim of mandating 100Mbps broadband by 2015 - compared to the UK's 2Mbps goal by 2012
With data center power and cooling costs becoming a key issue for businesses, vendors such as Hewlett-Packard are using their expertise to help customers find ways to make their new or existing facilities greener
Is the recession cutting demand for data centre space? Not according to analyst Nick Mayes of PAC Consulting.
Search engine giant Google has given its Docs suite a makeover, as it seeks to position the productivity suite less an rival to leader Microsoft Office, and more as the team collaboration application for Google Apps.
NaviSite has unveiled an alternative to public cloud offerings such as Amazon's EC2, by launching its own enterprise-class cloud offering, dubbed NaviCloud
Microsoft is working on Windows 8 - and it will be heavily based on the cloud, whatever Steve Ballmer may have said in recent announcements, says Nicholas Kolakowski
Cisco is buying wireless infrastructure company Starent for $2.9 billion, the latest significant acquisition this year, following such purchases as Pure Digital and Tandberg
Michael Dell aims to cut spending on IT by end user companies by pursuing the concept of the efficient enterprise
Network access points can pretend to be laptops, to gather performance data and determine whether faults are in the network or the client
Hot on its Purewire acquisition, security vendor Barracuda Networks has launched a cloud backup service for European users