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HDS, EMC and NetApp have all picked up on the same ‘Big Data” theme in recent blogs, but is NetApp struggling to ship enough FAS 3200 units to meet demand?

A Forrester survey shows that the benefits of server virtualisation aren’t fully realised unless the proper storage technology is in place; plus more news in brief.

The European Commission has cleared the proposed €850m acquisition of Siemens' IT Solutions and Service (SIS) by French IT service provider Atos Origin.

Facebook is to launch a site to enable advertisers to view and comment on advertising campaigns on the social networking site.

The International Trade Commission (ITC) has announced that it will review an earlier ruling in a patent dispute between Kodak Eastman and mobile handset makers Apple and Research in Motion (RIM).

Companies are spending up to £624,000 a week to secure their most sensitive business data abroad, a study has revealed.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has signed a £22m contract with Accenture to implement shared services across its human resources, payroll, finance and procurement operations for the next five years.

Spotify, the popular streaming music service, has been displaying malicious advertisements to users of its Free version.

Hewlett-Packard VARs: WebOS can cut the “white cord” of iTunes dependency.

A new guide from the Open Group is designed to help organisations meet ISO 27005 standards, but some risk management professionals feel it may not be so effective.

Companies are increasingly looking to Sybase Afaria, SAP’s mobile device management system, to help manage the growing number of mobile platforms in the workplace.

IT innovation is what happens when there's no money for new equipment but plenty of fresh ideas emanating from all parts of the business.

UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has expanded its outsourcing relationship with offshore IT service provider Cognizant, which extends a deal signed in 2009.

The government has launched its much-anticipated new IT strategy, highlighting open source and a promise that the coalition will do things better.

It's still illegal to use application virtualization to run Internet Explorer 6 apps on Windows 7. But new software skirts Microsoft's rules and runs IE6 apps in IE8 browsers.

Hewlett-Packard's new mobile and cloud push boosts its MPS pitch to partners.

Worried by the breach at RSA? Here are some two-factor authentication alternatives to consider.

Countries should separate the provision of new fibre networks from their operation, executives from telcos struggling to enter new national markets told the European Commission and major banks on Tuesday.

Multihop FCoE highlighted a laundry list of new Cisco data center network products, inching the market closer to data center network convergence from the edge to the core.

Outdated IT systems at the The Ministry of Defence (MoD) are reaching meltdown, with the risk of seriously affecting troops' ability to carry out operations, a National Audit Office report has found.

Most IT graduates think technical skills are the least important for IT jobs, according to a survey.

Small and medium businesses (SMBs) are increasing IT budgets and recruiting more IT skills

Microsoft has published a new report that outlines nine years of progress in developing, improving and sharing the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process.

The chief at cloud hoster Savvis says cloud computing marketplaces won't fly in big IT shops. Not everyone, however, agrees; the answer is naturally more nuanced.

Bill McCluggage, deputy government CIO, talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about the changes in the government's new IT strategy.

Samsung and Visa have formed a partnership to provide mobile payments in time for the 2012 London Olympic games.

Gender discrimination against women is rife in the IT sector, a report says.

Devon and Somerset county council has issued requests for tenders worth...

IT services giant CSC has agreed to acquire troubled healthcare software firm iSoft after the latter suspended shares and put itself up for sale last week.