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Virtualisation security puts a premium on IT teamwork

You don't need expensive consultants to secure your virtualised environment, but you do need the whole team acting as one.

Sourcing software development – taking a modular approach

As offshore sourcing of software code looses its attractions, how can IT organisations ensure best value?

Master data management - looking beyond the customer

How to make sense of the battle of ideas between "cross domain" and specialist hub approaches to master data management.

Log management as a tool against insider threats

How to engineer the log-management product, which was bought for compliance, to protect the network against insider threats as well.

What does a good customer look like?

Businesses all too often chase numbers – more customers and bigger orders - but both can be calamitous unless you anlayse your real sources of profit.

How BT learnt to be Agile

An understandable myth is that large organisations cannot possibly be agile. They are simply too big, complex and geographically dispersed to successfully deploy an agile approach to IT and business. BT has proved this wrong.

Dealing with the iPhone in the Enterprise

With talk of the 3G iPhone being launched this summer and distribution deals being done across the globe, the iPhone is going to force its way into the enterprise whether the IT department likes it or not, so best be prepared.

A testing question

The cost of putting right faulty software after it has been deployed far outstrips the cost of getting it right first time, so why do things still go wrong in software development?

Be an ISP: internal services provider

How to transform the network and communications team to become an internal service provider that focuses on cost and quality.

Why we're hard-wired to ignore Moore's Law

You might think that Moore's Law actually influences technology decisions beyond the realm of chip vendors. But the truth is, few enterprise IT shops actually appear to apply it to their planning. Could this be a mistake?

Principles of good key management

Too many businesses do not understand the importance of proper key management and they are not helped by vendors who make it very difficult to develop enterprise wide policies and systems. Nevertheless, best practice should be implemented.

Five ways to build a virtual office

When it comes to running a business, our feet are firmly on the ground but our data and software are increasingly in the cloud. My burgeoning media empire consists of two people (my lovely wife and me), but to the outside world we seem a lot bigger, thanks to online applications.

10 most important technologies you never think about

From Unicode to Lithion Ion batteries, XML and High-speed net access...we continue to use the technologies that changed the world, right under our noses.

Moving towards a smarter LAN

The network, the identity store, and policy - currently, these three elements are fairly separate, but integrate them tightly and watch them simplify the administration of controls in your LAN.

The future of anti-virus

On the eve of the Infosec security conference We look at the arms race between virus writers and AV companies and ask what it does for enterprise IT.

The WLAN wars are back - with a vengeance

The debates about wireless LAN architectures have got more complex, if anything. Craig Mathias explains why WLANs may never grow up and settle down.

Ubuntu Linux upgrade: Why you should try it

The final release of Ubuntu 8.04 next week should silence those who say Linux is too complex for the non-techie.

What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away

The conventional wisdom surrounding the Windows/Intel (aka Wintel) duopoly since the early days of Windows 95 is that performance advances in hardware are quickly consumed by the ever-increasing complexity of the Windows/Office code base.

Locking down the mainframe

Organisations are increasingly opening up their mainframe and sharing data, which means vulnerabilities and threats from both outside and inside are increasing, while the mainframe skill base is drying up.

Windows Server 2008: a great Vista killer

Some disaffected Vista users have discovered that Windows Server 2008, properly configured and tweaked to be more Vista-like, makes a killer workstation OS. Their discovery comes thanks to the musings of a (hopefully still employed) Microsoft engineer.

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