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Strategy

Allure of outsourcing continues to grow

Aug 3, 2009

Upping use for IT and business processes.

Finance

Customers demand better online banking

Jul 25, 2009

Will desert banks without more personal online service.

Strategy

Recession results in outsourcing inertia

Jun 29, 2009

Too hard to change to cheaper provider.

Hardware

Market forces drive innovation at Axa

Jun 13, 2009

Before taking on a project, the insurance giant’s IT team must show it can outperform external providers.

Software

Framework promises blueprint for IT success

Jun 8, 2009

In the early part of this decade when Martin Curley, global director of innovation at Intel was looking for a framework that could cover the entire spectrum of IT activities, ...

Software

Analyst blasts software support costs

May 14, 2009

Forrester Research is advising companies to pressure their software suppliers to lower their maintenance charges, accusing vendors of persisting with "customer-unfriendly ...

Hardware

Transformation initiatives to target the data centre

Dec 19, 2008

More than eight out of 10 enterprises will embark on datacentre transformation projects in 2009, as the need to cut costs and minimise business risks intensifies

Software

Microsoft announces online shake-up

Jul 25, 2008

Software giant Microsoft has announced a major restructuring, which will see it splitting Windows from its online business, as well as the departure of Kevin Johnson, who was ...

Software

Gartner predicts rise in services spending

Jul 25, 2008

Analyst firm Gartner has predicted that spending on IT services will rise by 9.5 per cent in 2008, but it warned that business leaders are increasingly seeing outsourcing ...

Software

Microsoft: Yahoo came crawling

Jul 16, 2008

Microsoft has issued a statement to challenge what it sees as inaccuracies in Yahoo's version of its most recent takeover talks. The move highlights the increasing poisonous ...

Software

Yahoo spurns Microsoft-Icahn offer

Jul 15, 2008

Yahoo's management board has rejected a further proposal for its search business from Microsoft, made in conjunction with activist shareholder Carl Icahn.

Software

Red Hat unveils virtualisation plans

Jun 20, 2008

Open source software firm Red Hat is to release its own virtualisation hypervisor, capable of hosting both its Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows environments.

Security

World leaders warned on imminent internet seizure

Jun 19, 2008

Experts speaking at international ministerial conference this week warned that urgent action was needed to prevent the internet becoming irrevocably gummed up.

Software

Replay aims to pinpoint code faults

Jun 17, 2008

Replay Solutions will today release its new tool, ReplayDirector for Java EE, which allows firms to slash the costs of application deployment.

Software

SAP readies CRM All-in-One

May 21, 2008

Business applications titan SAP has released a customer relationship management (CRM) module for medium-sized firms.

Strategy

Half of all businesses admit to IT project cancellations

May 20, 2008

New research has suggested that nearly half of firms have recently canned IT related projects before completion.

Networking

HP extends mobile thin client range

May 20, 2008

HP has introduced a smaller and lighter version of its mobile thin client device as it ramps up its desktop virtualisation offerings.

Software

SAP struggles with hosted ERP

May 5, 2008

Business software giant SAP is slowing down the rollout of its new hosted applications, as it struggles to reign-in the operating costs of the service.

Storage

Amazon beefs up cloud computing storage

Apr 16, 2008

Online retailer Amazon is to add persistent storage features to its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) hosted service, making it more reliable.

Security

Security lessons from San Francisco

Apr 14, 2008

Aligning IT security projects with business objectives and the huge growth in web threats were the key topics at this week’s RSA security show in San Francisco.