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Applications are being developed for virtual environments that can speed time-to-market, operational efficiency, and engender innovative business practices, discovers James Hayes.
High-street homewares and furnishings retailer The Pier recently deployed Sarian’s mobile routing technology to provide back-up connections to support online chip-and-pin transactions at all 35 of its stores. Alex Meek, head of information systems at The Pier, tells us about the project.
Mainframes have been around for 60 years, yet the latest generation still offers advantages over other high-end computer platforms for many applications. So how does the mainframe manage to survive in a computing world increasingly defined by ultra-portable laptops and high-density blade servers?
From the Beijing Olympics to Arsenal's North Bank stand, RFID technology is proving its worth at sporting events
Civil engineering firm Edmund Nuttall has taken advantage of a head office refit to virtualise its IT– and progress its Green commitment. The company's head of IT services Steve Shepherd tells the story to Keri Allen.
Open Source has been establishing itself as a de facto operating system for in-vehicle applications. Now vendor Wind River’s nascent Linux-based 'infotainment' standard could provide a unifying platform for further growth, reports James Hayes.
A virtual web-based map that shows the Internet threat landscape has been unveiled by ScanSafe. Threat Spy displays malware as it is identified and blocked by ScanSafe using multiple malware scanning engines, and its own proprietary heuristics engine.
IT commentary
DNS flaw opens door to new fraud wave 20 August 2008
Is the Internet broken? It seemed to be bumbling along fairly well until July, when security researcher Dan Kaminsky dropped a bombshell: he had figured out a way to exploit a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name Service (DNS), reports Dan Bradbury.
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