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Iceland: Data centre hot spot?

Cheap power, easy cooling and good communications

Beware cloud computing's hidden costs

Find the true costs before moving to the cloud

Four tips for deploying SSDs

How to balance performance against cost of solid state drives

Test and development in the cloud

Private clouds a good fit for test and development

Internal clouds: More than virtualising servers

Only 2% of enterprises have built a true private cloud, says Forrester

Why Apple's Wozniak loves flash storage drives

Steve Wozniak talks about storage startup

Engineers fix shortcomings of the traditional firewall

Building a new firewall from the ground up

NetApp, VMware light up new green data centres

Lean, virtual data centres reduce carbon and save billions

Disney dreams green in the data centre

How to prevent energy waste in the data centre

Windows 7 will drive virtual desktops, virtual iPhones

VMware, Citrix bank on Microsoft OS release

Cloud computing: Is it time to invest in cloud storage?

Storing data in the cloud is gaining attention within IT departments

Client-side virtualisation goes bare metal

Bare-metal hypervisors for client systems show great promise for the enterprise

How clouds and fibre has remade the data centre

The data centre has become one big internal cloud

Best and worst of Microsoft Exchange 2010

A first look at the most compelling features

Cisco data centre guru on IPv6, virtualisation and strategy

John McCool on everything from market shifts to computing paradigms and service integration

Wireless sensors drive green data centres

Better metrics mean more power efficient servers

Five lessons from a data centre's crisis of capacity

Hard lessons in disaster recover

Will Cisco drop WiMax focus after Starent acquistion?

Cisco places its bets on LTE for 4G next gen mobile data networks

The life and death of a virtual machine

Set a lifespan for virtual machines, just as you would for a physical server

Exchange 2010: blessing or curse?

Microsoft's newest messaging server brings benefits with care and attention

FAQ for CIOs: 'Will you fix my PC?'

Fix-it tales from the front lines: Tech support at home

The problem with defence in depth

Security flaws and solutions

Inside Amazon's Cloud: 50,000 server instances per day

Is cloud proven as ready for the enterprise?

Unix at 40: Hanging on despite strong Linux, Windows challenges

The middle-aged OS is not expected to die any time soon, just slowly fade away

Power management providers rated

Potential power savings on offer, but which is the best fit


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Database security: Preventing enterprise data leaks at the source

IDC discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data, and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices...

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Service-oriented security

SOA has become an integral part of enterprise software by providing a framework to efficiently develop software as services that is easily sharable, reusable, and integrated. No where is the need more apparent than in the Identity Management space. Welcome to the age of Service-Oriented Security (SOS).

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Data protection prospective vendor checklist

Organisations need a way to map business needs against all these challenges in procuring a technical solution. To help, SANS has developed the following Prospective Vendor Checklist.

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Unlock the power of the mainframe

This whitepaper presents the notion of CICS as an integration hub based on a component-based, service-oriented architecture supporting Web services. Highlights will review the challenges and contrasted support for Web services natively in CICS.

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COLT White Paper

Are all VoIP services the same?

Questions to ask your service provider to ensure you get the VoIP service you need
With careful choice of partner, your business can have all the advantages of VoIP access - reduced costs, flexibility and simplicity - without the drawbacks.
This white paper is your guide to ensure you get right the VoIP service and details the pitfalls which businesses would do well to avoid.

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Ride the express lane in the journey to speed ITIL adoption

Explore the challenges in making the journey to ITIL and the criteria for selecting consulting services
By following ITIL practices, your IT organisation will become more closely integrated with the business. We recommend making the journey to ITIL in a sequence of six incremental steps, the phases of which are driven through execution of a strategic transformational roadmap.

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