Most dangerously of all, Butler says, enterprises are losing the chance to gain competitive advantage through a 'me too' culture which means all companies end up with the same systems. With enterprises concerned with keeping this cosy relationship...
Budgetary constraints, however, remain an issue and Gartner recommends adopting a "zero-based" budget to force tighter scrutiny of the proposed benefits of all IT spending requests throughout the year.
Meanwhile less than one per cent of businesses surveyed named security as a barrier to adopting VoIP. Quality of service is the most common barrier for enterprises considering the switch to voice over IP (VoIP), according to new research.
The features will be included in a future version of Viridian, formally called Windows Server Virtualization, the company said. In a blog posting, the general manager of virtualization strategy at Microsoft, Mike Neil, said the company is making...
Hyper-V, launched on Thursday, is not Microsoft's first virtualisation product, and will face competition from vendors such as VMware, the market leader in virtualisation. Rival VMware responded to the release of Hyper-V by claiming Microsoft has...
The study, carried out by application security consultant Larry Suto and sponsored by security tools vendor Fortify, found that a lack of security processes led to a constant or increasing number of security issues in successive open-source releases.