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  • Source code management: protecting the process

    Building software using a team of multiple programmers working from different time and geographical zones brings production efficiencies, but managing the source code effectively is essential.

  • Business Transaction Management

    Systems that handle high-volume transaction processing present demanding challenges for IT managers. Business Transaction Management can help.

  • IP Version 6 migration

    IT strategists should be planning for their organisations' transition to the impending introduction of IP Version 6.

  • Autonomic computing: the route to systematic well-being?

    In 2001 an IBM manifesto called for computers that could regulate their own vital functions - just as the human body does. Nearly a decade on, are we any closer to autonomic computing? E&T finds out.

  • IT contractors bear brunt of downturn

    IT contractors are facing tough times as budgets bounce and new projects are parked. E&T details the pressures at play on the jobbing freelancer.

  • IT procurement: buying into the future

    HP has stirred up strong feelings by proposing that IT budget models should change in line with technological developments; E&T reports.

  • Case study: Everton FC

    Email has become an essential way for football clubs to keep in contact with their fanbase; but defeating bad email in the form of spam presents a formidable challenge to their IT departments. Everton FC’s head of ICT Steve Fell explains to E&T how ‘The Toffees’ beat the problem.

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Comparing copper and fiber options in the data centre

In most data centre designs there is a mixture of both copper and fiber infrastructure. With varied capabilities of networking equipment and cabling options, a thorough analysis should be performed to plan the most cost effective data centre infrastructure to maximize your return on investment.

Web use and misuse

Do your employees spend time internet shopping? What about playing online games, downloading pirated movies or gambling online? The internet has changed behaviour in the workplace and presents new challenges for managers.

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Microsoft stealthily targeting IBM 'big iron'? 5 March 2010

Philip Hunter, Associate Editor, IT Section. The Microsoft Windows Enterprise Server platform has emerged as a serious migration option for IBM mainframe customers, alongside the traditional UNIX/Linux options from major system vendors such as HP.

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