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OTTAWA (Reuters) – Research In Motion said on Thursday that it has isolated and resolved the issue that delayed email service for some North American BlackBerry customers this morning. RIM said in a statement that some clients may continue to experience delays as email queues are processed. The issue had not affected phone service, browsing […]

Novell: Economic downturns have a tendency to accelerate emerging technologies, boost the adoption of effective solutions, and punish solutions that are not cost competitive or that are out of synch with industry trends. IDC research finds that Linux users are clearly satisfied about their choice to deploy Linux, and during trying economic times, the potential […]

MySQL:The “M” in the LAMP stack, MySQL forms part of an innovative and cost-effective platform ideal for delivering internet-based applications. This white paper examines some of the challenges associated with building and supporting online applications using open source web 2.0 technologies. It also provides an overview of MySQL Enterprise, which includes database and monitoring software […]

Forrester: This Forrester study commissioned by Google made five key findings: Free Web analytics take residence within the enterprise. A staggering 53% of enterprises surveyed currently use a free technology solution as their primary Web analytics tool, and 71% use free tools in some capacity. The merits of free are compelling. Among respondents currently paying […]

Amazon: HIPAA’s Privacy Rule regulations include standards regarding the encryption of all PHI in transmission (“in-flight”) and in storage (“at-rest”). The same data encryption mechanisms used in a traditional computing environment, such as a local server or a managed hosting server, can also be used in a virtual computing environment, such as Amazon EC2 and […]

EMC: This IDC multi-media asset provides insight and best practices on virtualization, consolidation, deduplication, and other IT solutions that companies are employing to reduce costs and improve business efficiencies. It also provides specific next steps that every organization should take in order to make its IT infrastructure more efficient. RELATED NEWS AND ANALYSIS Ethics and […]

Oracle: Best practices in grid computing offer companies dramatic improvement in efficiency, availability, and costs – particularly good news given today’s economic climate. Pioneered just five years ago, grid computing is gathering momentum as SOA applications continue to proliferate and technologies such as server virtualization and clustering gain in strategic importance. RELATED NEWS AND ANALYSIS […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Major British and U.S. companies are focusing on a return to revenue growth in 2010 over cost-cutting, and IT is central to their recovery strategies, according to a survey by consultants Gartner. In 2009, CEOs prioritized cost cutting to cope with the downturn, but a year later the focus for 71 percent […]

HP: Ongoing, exponential data growth is proving a challenge for the smallest to the largest of businesses, with the greatest of these challenges being the cost of storing and managing this critical business asset. Simply adding more storage capacity is no longer an acceptable strategy, so businesses are looking at ways of using new storage […]

Microsoft: In this webcast, industry experts from MicroFocus, ATERAS, and Microsoft show you a solution that decreases the risk and shortens the conversion timeline, lowering the cost of conversion while delivering a high return on investment. Discover how global organizations have migrated off Adabas Natural mainframe applications to the Microsoft .NET Framework. RELATED NEWS AND […]

Cisco: How does a business present a consistent ordering experience to customers and partners while simultaneously accommodating the numerous, diverse processes used by its sales, service and support, channel, and finance organizations? In a large business like Cisco, meeting this challenge requires more than just technology; it requires a holistic enterprise perspective that aligns business […]

Symantec: Corporate security threats have become more sophisticated, putting organizations at greater risks, while at the same time, security policies and practices must support the dynamic nature of business. As a result, IT organizations are challenged to find more effective ways to protect information and interactions, create and audit security policies, and standardize and automate […]