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Data protection and identity management – are you sure you’re safe?

Data protection is an essential area for businesses, and an increasingly critical one to deal[...]

Server Virtualisation for Hard-Nosed People

This webcast reveals the experiences of organisations who have extensive practice of x86 server virtualisation.[...]

Ready for VoIP?

By Josie Sephton It seems at last that business-grade VoIP is making its mark in[...]

Business Productivity An Alternative View

The Register’s Tim Phillips, Jon Collins and IBM’s Gary Gomersall give the lowdown on alternative[...]

Evolution of x86 Server Estates

by Dale Vile and Jon Collins Justifying the purchase of x86 servers to run new[...]

Unified networking: Reality or a marketing myth?

We all know that the IT Infrastructure has a life of its own. In the[...]

Is losing a mobile device really such a big deal?

These days, it’s no surprise to anybody that staff mobility – everything from home working[...]

Moving to a new app? Mind the data trap

If you’re anything like me, you’re always on the lookout for software that will improve[...]

Social wariness is wise for business

A colleague pulled me up with a start the other day when I was talking[...]

Videoconferencing comes of age for CIOs

By Josie Sephton The announcement a few weeks back on Cisco acquiring Tandberg seems to[...]

Threat predictions for 2010

Jon Collins and Paul Wood of MessageLabs give their predictions for the coming year on[...]

Does business social networking really need IT?

Are you wrestling with the idea of bringing social networking (choose your own preferred term)[...]

Windows 7 kills two thirds of active Vista initiatives

We recently ran a survey asking respondents (over 1,100 IT pros) about their thoughts and[...]

How bad are the bad guys?

By Jon Collins The Internet has come a long way since its rudimentary beginnings as[...]

Are you mulling new ways of refreshing desktop and laptop estates?

In a recent poll we asked if people were rethinking their desktop strategies, and what[...]

Breaking out of the virtualisation pilot

By Jon Collins The IT industry is full of bad habits, none greater than treating[...]

What are you doing about refreshing the PC estate?

We know from respondents that the age of desktop estates vary greatly, not just between[...]

Reg readers take mobile makers to task

When Freeform Dynamics asked you for your opinion of your mobile phone, you didn’t hesitate[...]

Remote IT support ’is harder’

Perish the thought that we at Freeform Towers should try to over-simplify things, but from[...]

Microsoft is learning to share – but not soon enough?

Jive, an enterprise-focused social software company, has a catchy tagline: it says it’s going to[...]

Securing the remote estate – Lock ‘em down or set ‘em free?

One of the challenges of managing a remote desktop estate is security. It’s not a[...]

What do Scotland, Australia and Africa have in common?

Unified Communications (UC) is a pretty hot topic with analysts and vendors alike. Yet despite[...]

When PCs went mobile – Tears of joy or sorrow?

Do you remember the first time you saw a laptop? Shiny bright LED screen, pixels[...]

Today’s users don’t expect things to fail

A recent mini-poll reveals, as perhaps expected, that the primary source of information used to[...]