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Although the country has now officially exited the recession, businesses are still looking at ways to improve efficiency, cut costs and save money. But by simply rethinking or restructuring the technology in your office, your business could save time, money and resource.
Here are some top tips to managing recession recovery.
Outsource IT. With a managed IT [...]

A survey of 700 CIOs worldwide has revealed that companies are committing more to virtualisation. Respondents to the survey claim that server virtualisation is already saving about 16% of their budgets, therefore virtualisation is expected to drive much of the purchasing decisions over the next 18 months as IT managers look to make major savings [...]

A consortium of service providers, vendors, government organisations and consultants has begun work on a set of measurements called the Common Assurance Metric (CAM) designed to make it easier for businesses to compare the security features offered by cloud-computing providers.
The consortium said that overall, CAM will “allow cloud providers the opportunity to demonstrate their information [...]

Credit card users are once again facing up to the fact that their plastic friends may no longer be as secure as they thought they were. Research by the University of Cambridge, which was demonstrated on Newsnight, showed how a stolen credit card could be used to buy goods in a retail store by fooling the system [...]

A survey of 565 IT decision makers has found that 70% of cloud users plan to locate more of their applications in the cloud. And although 64% are not yet using a cloud model, 62% are considering moving to one.
Although for the majority of respondents – 54% – the primary benefits are the cost savings, [...]

Did you know that by the end of 2010 most businesses in the UK will be using at least one “cloud based” or “online” software application? In fact many businesses don’t even know that they are already using it.
Cloud Computing or online applications have become more and more popular in the past few years as [...]

The sixth annual Online Fraud Report released this week by payments provider Cybersource, says that 57% of merchants see online fraud as the greatest threat to their business. The report also found that in too many cases, customer cardholder data is spread out across the organisation, in finance, customer services, loss prevention, sales and other [...]