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  • Fasthosts offers virtual server range

    We have worked with Microsoft, understanding the roadmap and foresee excellent benefits for our customers. Fasthosts has introduced a range of virtual servers, based on Microsoft Hyper-V, that allows customers to configure a server by choosing…
  • IBM reduces server sprawl with new eX5 portfolio

    The concrete results of this next generation machine are exciting, and the roadmap has 'knock-your-socks-off' vision. IBM is offering organisations an opportunity to experience more scalable, workload-tuned computing on the x86 platform.
  • Oracle to merge Java virtual machines in two years

    A JVM enables running of Java programs and provides Java's heralded hardware and operating system independence.Oracle expressed intentions to integrate the two JVMs during a Sun-Oracle roadmap session last month.
  • Intel updates Itanium server chip range

    Intel has laid out a six-year roadmap for Itanium, he said.Tukwila's successor will be Poulson, which will be made using the 32-nanometer process, followed by Kittson. Intel said it has started shipping its new Itanium processor codenamed Tukwila…
  • Oracle promises big future for Java

    This continues with Sun had already been doing, enabling the JVM to support dynamic languages like Ruby.Also as part of its SE roadmap, Oracle will integrate the Sun HotSpot and Oracle JRockit JVMs. Oracle is to kill Sun's cloud computing platform…
  • Windows Mobile 7 to come in home and business flavours

    It's worth noting that at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft announced Mediaroom 2.0 that has as a part of its roadmap the ability to offer live TV streaming to your mobile device.The report from WM Experts also dredges up the rumor…

Latest Features

  • Processor forecast 2010

    It's been widely reported in the enthusiast press and on tech rumour websites, however, that Sandy Bridge will include four CPU cores.Via Technologies declined to provide a longer term roadmap for its CPU business, but the company is likely to…
  • The lowdown on the Techworld product awards

    It wasnt so much the technology itself - current switches are pretty small and so savings are tiny at present – but the way that the company had thought out a road-map (or for green products, should that be cycle path?
  • The next big move in chip manufacturing

    If you look at the ITRS [International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors] roadmap they look at 2012.but we recognise that the market conditions are going to dictate what the timing is for all that.How does wafer size and the size of features…
  • How size affects your view of unified comms

    However, "SMEs are more tactical in their approach .they] tend to focus less on the long-term roadmap than they do on bottom line price and cost-savings .and are] driven by short-term gains. Europe's large enterprises and small-medium enterprises…
  • Interesting times for networking

    One of Juniper's execs at the EX series launch event even showed a slide that looked very like Cisco's IOS software roadmap with all the labels removed, to show just how horrid things can get if you let things proliferate.Cisco hasn't helped…
  • Brocade's very big switch

    This malaise affects both Brocade and its main competitor in this space, Cisco.Likely impactWith the DCX Brocade has provided a roadmap into the future for existing Silkworm 48000 and McDATA 6140 director customers.
 

How-Tos

  • How to create a transformation roadmap

    One way to do that is to create a transformation roadmap: a definitive plan specifying how the vendor will provide those contractually obligated improvements.It's easy for a provider to say that they're going to reduce contract spend 20 percent…
  • Check-list for the economic green datacentre

    The group is currently in the process of collecting real-time data from datacentres in order to provide datacentre managers with a roadmap and a baseline set of best practices.Five steps to a greener pastureAs the industry awaits a comprehensive…
  • Case Study: How to build a datacentre in six months for $800,000

    Let's just say they weren't very helpful, says Wakefield, who spoke about his datacentre project at the recent Network World IT Roadmap Conference and Expo in Dallas.Things began to change quickly once Patriarch bought up Intrepid in 2006.
  • Case Study: Hitachi Consulting learns the lessons of VoIP

    Despite some setbacks, the director of IT for Hitachi Consulting wouldn't do voice any other way.I cannot imagine going back to an old TDM world," says Shisko, who talked about his VoIP experiences at the recent Network World IT Roadmap Conference…
  • Case Study: Overland: once bitten, nice try

    We achieved this performance with a reduced sales force that we are now rebuilding.LoForti reckons that Overland has made convincing progress in rebuilding channel partner confidence, delivering products against its roadmap and re-constructing and…
  • Case Study: Overland Storage: Back on its way

    A new product roadmap has been confirmed and a new worldwide sales VP, Bob Farkaly, a storage industry veteran, joined Overland in April. Its reputation for branded products was poor, its manufacturing was unstable and its product roadmap in disarray.

Reviews

  • Mozilla Fennec software

    According to the roadmap, the first devices to get Fennec will include Nokia's Maemo platform and Windows Mobile 6, followed by Symbian devices (work on Symbian begins in December 2009). Mozilla this week put out its first beta release of Fennec…
  • PalmOne Treo 650

    The GSM/GPRS version of the Treo 650 will at least have broadband support in the form of compatibility with EDGE, the next step on the GSM/GPRS data roadmap. We check out the new features. The Treo 650, announced earlier this year, is basically an…
  • Dell PowerEdge 2850

    Dell PowerEdge 2850 Dave Mitchell, Techworld Top of the range Intel-based server offers good value for money.review,reviews For many companies the 32/64bit computing question is irrelevant as they wont need this for the near to mid-term future…
  • Sony StorStation SAITe1300

    Another key factor is that Sonys product roadmap indicates that the second generation isnt far behind and will be the first tape format to break the magical 1TB barrier for native storage on a single cartridge.S-AIT isnt a completely new format as…
  • Hewlett Packard DAT72

    The lack of a performance boost is worrying and, at the time of writing, HP and Seagate had not announced a product roadmap so there is no guarantee that there will be another generation after this. Hewlett Packard DAT72 Dave Mitchell HP…

White Papers

  • Guide to cost optimisation: Four ways to gain operational advantage

    For each of these areas, this paper outlines a specific roadmap of projects that your organisation can follow with projects building on one another over time to add value incrementally. This paper is designed to help directors and managers of IT…
  • CRM 2.0: Technology outlook roadmap

    Recovering the trust of customers, based largely on transparency, fostering loyalty and opening up the needs of users CRM 2.0: Technology outlook roadmap Oracle The evolution of demand - The customer 2.0 whitepaper
  • Improving and communicating the business value of IT

    An ROIT roadmap for selecting projects to reduce cost and increase effectiveness. This paper will offer concrete practices, processes, and recommendations to drive the ROI of a company's IT investment (ROIT) via key areas for improvement and the…
  • Email and Web Security SaaS

    Overall, Butler Group believes that in terms of functional breadth and delivery capabilities, Webroot is certainly among the best solution providers in the target market, and the companys technology roadmap and strategic initiatives point toward…
  • Ride the express lane in the journey to speed ITIL adoption

    BMC recommends making the journey to ITIL in a sequence of six incremental steps, the phases of which are driven through execution of a strategic transformational roadmap. This paper discusses the challenges in making the journey to ITIL and…
  • Top 5 Initiatives for Achieving Breakthrough Customer Support

    This white paper will provide a roadmap for companies looking to improve all aspects of their support operation, addressing people, process and technology issues, with special attention paid to the role of remote support technology as a key…
 
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