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Unions protest against BT's wireless sell-off
News Crowds of demonstrators greeted the BT shareholders who gathered at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre on Tuesday morning to decide whether to approve the demerger of the company's wireless operations.
[October 23, 2001, 13:10]
IBM’s Pulse: vital signs for software?
Blog Enough silliness - this news is concerned with how, much like the assembly line and automation that transformed the automobile and telecommunications industries over the past century, IT operations are ripe for industrialisation.
[May 21, 2008, 15:10]
WS_FTP Professional 9.0 review
Reviews The familiar two-pane format is still present for performing file transfer operations, although this has been expanded and now allows you to arrange the panes as you wish. Ipswitch has also introduced a tabbed interface that allows you to flip...
[August 4, 2004, 8:55]
With simplicity comes complacency
News But it's an essential part of normal operations -- you can't just turn it off. SNMP when correctly used and maintained is an essential part of normal network operations, but people everywhere have been lax in maintaining its security.
[February 21, 2002, 16:02]
SuSE deal to expand US sales effort
News In 2001, the company drastically curtailed its US operations, laying off many of its employees. The cuts trimmed the operations down to about 15 employees, but the US division is now profitable and has begun hiring again, Dyroff said.
[November 20, 2002, 8:12]
Coping with unrealistic requirements in job ads
News If you can't find out who the person is you would report to, send it to the chief technical officer or the vice president in charge of operations. SAP is a case in point -- since PeopleSoft is what the company uses, that name gets put into the ad...
[March 6, 2003, 15:23]
IT reliance key to disaster recovery planning
News He used the example of Pat Gambaro, senior vice president of trading floor operations and systems at what is now called the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT). Gambaro is now vice president of operations, and has no trouble getting resources, he added.
[August 13, 2002, 10:21]
How to stop your data leaking
News A typical case would be a lower-level data center operations employee who manages the production scheduling environment. When I was an IT director, my policy was to have the 'primary' DBA for each system define and keep the user IDs and passwords...
[September 7, 2004, 13:35]
Ballmer unpacks new developer tools
News Software can be looked at from an operations perspective as well as a development perspective. The upshot is that developers can ensure that a new application is fully compatible with their network infrastructure before releasing it into the wild...
[May 25, 2004, 9:15]
Kazaa's owner breaks silence
News Hemming registered LEF Interactive in late February just prior to the purchase of the Kazaa technology, in order to cover Sharman Networks' Australian operations. After months of speculation Sharman Networks' elusive chief executive Nikki Hemming...
[April 24, 2002, 10:17]
Microsoft aims 'too many cooks' attack at Linux
News Our customers have turned to us to run not merely their back-end operations, but also their mission critical operations on Linux. Microsoft's UK Marketing Manager, Anne Marie Duffy, hit out at this application saying, "These things are free at a...
[August 11, 1999, 9:29]
The dangers of downsizing
News Vince Mabert, a professor of operations management at Indiana University, has studied several companies that have gone through layoffs and says that typically only half of those companies subsequently met their profit goals.
[September 20, 2001, 18:30]
Microsoft finally launches Hyper-V
News Hypervisors add a performance penalty to operations, since they add another software layer to the operating system and thus slow all operations down, added Lock. Outlining the benefits of virtualisation, Microsoft's general manager of Windows...
[June 26, 2008, 17:23]
Microsoft push-email row escalates
News He also criticised companies such as RIM — which does offer embedded encryption on its BlackBerry handsets — for relaying email via network operations centres, saying: "The reason RIM has to encrypt the data is because there isn't end-to-end...
[November 8, 2006, 15:57]
HP: Reward IT managers for green thinking
News HP also announced on Wednesday that it has set itself an ambitious target for reducing its energy use over the next three years by 20 percent, which will affect its manufacturing and day-to-day operations.
[March 30, 2007, 16:28]
Microsoft releases backup server public beta
News We found that most recovery is done within 30 days of when a user realises a file has been deleted, so we reckon that 30 days worth of disk storage will allow 90 percent of backup operations. The beta of Data Protection Server, or to use its full...
[April 13, 2005, 16:15]
IBM goes retro to bridge the supercomputing divide
News For decades, high-performance computing customers have used machines with "vector" processors, which excel at certain mathematical operations and can quickly retrieve large amounts of data from memory.
[October 26, 2004, 11:50]
Cranking up corporate clock speeds
News But as the general economy recovers and business confidence returns, organisations will increasingly turn to technologies -- of a variety of stripes -- which can enable them to both further streamline their operations and improve efficiency, but...
[December 11, 2003, 10:55]
IBM bags billion pound utility deal
News Nordea said on Wednesday that the IBM outsourcing pact, worth 2.2bn (£1.55bn) euros, is part of a push to consolidate its internal information technology production operations. Shifting our IT operations from a fixed investment to on-demand is...
[October 2, 2003, 9:15]
BCS: Embrace tech or lose advantage
News In some companies IT is seen as a necessary evil, [whereas] in some businesses IT is central to operations. They have the knowledge capital and the ability to implement and exploit technology for competitive advantage," said Adam Thilthorpe, BCS...
[July 10, 2007, 16:16]
