Microsoft's new software licensing scheme could clash with anti-trust authorities if it becomes compulsory for businesses to pay for their server software by chip, instead of per user seat. The company's new licensing model, announced this week...
I think we all need to be a bit more honest about our conflicting objectives," added Allen. The government has recognised it can't actually do anything without industry co-operation," said Richard Allen, chair of the IT select committee and Liberal...
They are mostly using ageing products and are facing a choice of whether or not to accept Microsoft's new licensing model. Perhaps the biggest news, however, is the addition of the Citrix Secure Gateway, a brand new development that gives...
Control Objectives for Information and related Technologies (COBIT) is one of the tools leading ITOs use to manage risk. Ensuring that core IT processes are operationally excellent - singular and repeatable, well understood, consistent, measured...
The alternative - which almost a fifth of our workforce seems to be doing - is that IT developers attend meetings, agree with objectives but forget these when they return to the ‘workshop’. Effective software development must take the best of both...
For example, business users can conduct meetings on the road, complete with video, voice and "white board" illustrations, through IP multimedia subsystems (IMS) - a next-generation network architecture that sits on top of 3G networks.