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Dedupe appliances were the big dog for a long time, but software-based products have come on strong more recently, offering many useful capabilities, often at a lower cost than an appliance.

The earthquake in northern Japan last week, could damage the semiconductor industry and chip supply chain.

Sky is to create 100 permanent IT roles in Scotland as part of an expansion of its customer business systems team.

The US is continuing its secret efforts to secure tougher copyright laws, even though its Hollywood-sponsored anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (Acta) has still to be validated, a leaked document has revealed.

Hewlett-Packard plans public cloud infrastructure, app store, but partner role unclear.

Adobe has published a security advisory for a critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash that can be used to take control of an attacked machine.

IT failures have been blamed for failures of the points based immigration system in a National Audit Office (NAO) report.

The DWP cancelled its desktop support contract with Fujitsu before it passed to the supplier from incumbent HP.

The Scottish government's Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) economic and community development agency has signed a deal with Atos Origin to move to a shared services model.

In the run-up to Comic Relief's Red Nose Day on Friday 18 March, head of future media and technology Marcus East is having a frantic week - but we managed to take a few minutes of his time to get an update on IT preparations for the event.

Social media is driving product development at Deutsche Bank. The banking giant is using web 2.0 technologies to engage with 1,000 of its corporate customers, to find out how it can make corporate banking run more smoothly.

Research in Motion (RIM) is advising Blackberry smartphone users to disable Javascript to protect against a security vulnerability in its web browser.

Secure web access firm Trusteer has announced a web login and transaction monitoring service to detect malware without installing software.

Real-time business intelligence can speed up and improve decision making. But it isn’t right for everyone. Find out what to consider before building a real-time BI system.

India could block Research in Motion (RIM) from 31 March 2011 after government officials expressed dissatisfaction with access to Blackberry services.

Twitter has added a new profile setting to increase the level of security when accessing the mobile blogging site over an unsecured Wi-Fi connections.

The decision by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to cancel a £300m desktop support deal with Fujitsu before it even began will lead many in the public sector to question some IT suppliers' ability to deliver on their sales pitch.

Whitehall has set up a new organisation to oversee moves to improve the digital delivery of public services.

The latest version of Google's Android operating system (OS) is 50% faster at loading web pages than Apple's iOS, according to research.

RSA, the security division of EMC, has revealed that attackers have stolen information from the company's IT systems

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee is to work with the Broadband Stakeholders Group to ensure the UK works towards a more open internet.