How many software packages, licenses, versions and locations are spread across your company? If you can even start to answer, then chances are you're ahead of the game.
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Saas Vendor: No More Lock-in
On-demand call center provider LiveOps says the downturn is driving uptake of hosted technology
Recession Isn’t Boosting The Cloud
Despite the promise that cloud computing can cut costs , companies in the UK are hesitating to adopt it, according to a survey by IT consultancy Avanade.
Sun JavaFX: A Move Into the RIA Space
Sun Microsystems rolls out JavaFX to challenge Adobe AIR, Flex and Microsoft Silverlight, in the highly competitive rich Internet application space.
Microsoft Azure Cloud SDK
Azure is Microsoft's entry into the cloud computing world competing against the likes of Amazon.com and Google. eWEEK Labs tries it out.
UK should learn from open source schools project
Avoiding commercial licenses has enabled the National Digital Resource Bank project to succeed, say free software experts
Unison: Free Unified Communications Software
Unison Server and Desktop provide a decent unified communications experience for free, but what's the catch?
SAP Tackles European IT Costs With Virtualisation
The ERP specialist is virtualising 500 internal servers and more than 40 applications
Google Users Experience Another Mail Outage
The search giant's hosted email service suffered another temporary glitch
Open-Source Leaders Call For Calm Over TomTom
Is Microsoft's lawsuit against TomTom a shot across the bow at Linux and open-source software? Open-source experts Bruce Perens and Jim Zemlin weigh in with their views
UK Recession Hits IT Jobs Hardest
Demand for IT staff is falling significantly faster than the overall drop in the UK as a whole
Ten Years of Worms Have Left Email Security In Tattters
In 1999 the Melissa worm announced a new kind of attack. Ten years later, the security industry is still catching up, says Larry Seltzer
Sun: Recession Driving Green IT, Virtualization Uptake
Interest in technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization and green IT is on the rise, according to Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos
CeBIT: Microsoft Launches Cloud Tools For Mobile Workers
The software giant has repackaged some of its hosted productivity applications for mobile workers
UK Start-up Offers Oracle Carbon Metrics
Zogix helps companies extract green data from existing applications
Microsoft Tests Kumo Search Service
Staff at Microsoft are testing a new, online search tool within the company. But could it beat Google? And will it be called Kumo, or something else?
SAP Makes Green Promises
The software giant has announced a product to manage customers environmental impact, and made a promise to cut its own carbon footprint
Debian 5.0 Lenny: Good For Servers
Named for a Toy Story character, the new Debian is a serious contender for open source server deployments
Can Community-Source Get Apps Built In A Recession?
Community source development can save money and reduce vendor lock-in, by combining the best of the traditional and open-source development models
ERP Software Vendor Makes “Eco” Tools
Management add-on helps measure the whole company's environmental impact - and comply with legislation
OpenSUSE 11.1 Vies for Desktop Linux Supremacy
Novell's OpenSUSE 11.1 has desktop features and an enviable community involvement strategy for tapping community involvement, but still a few rough spots. Can it stand up to Red Hat Fedora and Ubuntu from Canonical?
Logica Denies Price War, HP Disagrees
IT services company Lgica says that customers will still favour quality over price, even in a recession. But HP's UK director says he has seen competitors making "suicidal" offers
Beware Of Software Bearing Gifts
If your applications aren't behaving the way you expect, the problem may not be where you think. Peter Judge found that familiar, trusted software may not be quite what it appears
Google outage was due to “overload”
A two hour blackout of Google mail was blamed on "data centre overload" and new code bugs, by the company's official blog.
UK Government To Save £600m With Open Source
New support for open source from the UK government could lead to big savings as long as proprietary vendors don't hijack it, say commentators
Cloud services ‘pose legal risks’
Outages are only part of the problem for services on the web, says a City Law firm, warning cloud customers may face lawsuits over performance and data protection
Polycom Pushes High-End Video Conferencing
Video conferencing specialist Polycom says its HD-ready system, will boost take-up of telepresence, and cut business travel, but analysts warn of slow uptake and hidden costs around the technology
Gmail Failure: Reality Bites for Cloud Computing
Update: Gmail is back, after a two-hour outage. The company has not yet said how many people were affected, but twitter traffic from round the world reveals a major outage. That's a pain for millions of ordinary users - but it could be ...
Citrix Offers Control For Microsoft Virtualization
Citrix is offering a management product for Microsoft's Hyper-V, and a free version of its own Citrix XenServe, in a bid to steal a march on VMware
Recession Creates New IT Outsourcing Destinations
Global recession is producing new locations for oursourcing, according to research - but companies should appreciate the risks involved