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• Local authorities fail on online delivery
  We just don't trust our councils' websites
• Users still unhappy with SAP price hike
  Grumbles go on.
• Opera promises faster surfing with new browser
  Comes out fighting against Chrome.
• Yahoo launches web analytics tool
  Company set to take on Google.
• Mozilla adds location tagging to Firefox
  I know where you are.
• Economic crisis hits IT budgets
  Spending freeze on the way, says survey.
• Oracle continues spree with Primavera purchase
  'Granddaddy' of PPM gets taken out.
• CA hails new data centre tool
  Automatic for the IT people.

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• Oracle offers compression to DBAs
  Oracle's powerful new HP Oracle Database Machine comes with 168TB of storage ... and a hefty price tag to boot. But there is another to boost processing power: the company's own efficient compression technology.
• Unified communications won't displace insecure IM
  Business-grade unified communications software offers security, but dealing with external clients often means leaving the light on for AIM, Skype and the like.
• Touchpaper questions IT readiness for EuroSOX
  Asset management company Touchpaper has released a white paper examining the impact on European companies of the EU's version of the Sarbanes-Oxley act.

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• 5 ways to build your virtual office
  The good part about going virtual is that you don't have to worry about leaving your data or software on the wrong machine when you're away from the office. The bad part is when you can't reach the Internet. But more and more online applications are offering offline access these days...
• How to ... navigate a sea of SOA standards
  One of the problems with SOA is the wide range of standards to chose from. When implementing an SOA project, the important thing is to pick the ones that matter and use middleware carefully.
• Defining enterprise IM strategies
  Look for features such as encryption, scalability and recording capabilities.

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• The Capacity to Succeed: Demand and Capacity Management New
  

  This white paper explores the drivers for demand and capacity management; the benefits and ROI; and the challenges businesses face in making it work.
  

• Preparing for the Storm: Effective Data Backup and Recovery New
  

  This white paper was written for IT professionals looking to increase the strategic value of IT as they implement a cost-effective and appropriately sized backup and recovery platform that can support business growth.
  

• Delivering an Effective Backup and Recovery Service New
  

  Rapid data growth and the need for greater data availability place a demand on organisations to provide an effective backup and recovery service. Yet businesses have often been satisfied with just minimal provision. It is only when a disaster arrives that it becomes clear how inadequate this approach is. This white paper helps organisations make the right decisions about how best to prevent data loss and potentially catastrophic IT failure.

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• HP winning VMware-Microsoft virtualisation battle
  Despite the claims and counterclaims of superiority by Microsoft and VMware - and now Citrix and VMware - it's becoming increasingly clear who's going to be the winner in the rapidly growing market for server virtualisation: Hewlett-Packard.
• Problems with monitoring virtual infrastructure
  Questions about how to monitor VMware ESX installations are common on community forums, but the term "monitoring" covers so much ground and could involve so many tools that the question requires a lot of refinement.
• 5 IT skills that won't boost your salary
  Technical skills may never die, but areas of expertise wane in importance as technology advances, forcing companies to evolve and IT staff to forsake yesterday's crafts in favour of tomorrow's must-have talents.

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• IBM sticks head in the clouds 
  
• So that's Chrome 
  
• See the Chrome, feel the Chrome ... 
  

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• Xobni for Outlook 1.2
  Outlook is powerful but stupid. Here's an app that adds some intelligence and doubles productivity.
• Quickoffice Premier 5.0
  The eponymous Quickoffice publishes a number of applications for PDAs and smartphones, focusing in particular - but not exclusively - on Nokia Series 60 v3 phones such as the E-series and newer N-series models. We look at two of the most useful ones - Quickcalendar, and Quickoffice itself.
• Blue Coat SG Client
  Software for Windows XP that allows a mobile PC to work as a client to a Riverbed Steelhead WAN acceleration system.
• Uplogix Envoy - remote management
  The Uplogix Envoy has been designed to make remote management of devices and despite a new quibbles, it does eveything that's asked of it.
• Snort 2.7
  Snort has gathered plenty of plaudits as a free network monitoring package. And as we find out, that reputation has been wholly deserved - if you can find your way around the command line coding in the first place.

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• Automatic for the programmer
  The magic of software is that, because there are no limits of physics, we can keep advancing the technology to meet our ambitions. Welcome to the 'endless value spiral.'
• Kagermann reflects on his years at SAP
  In an interview with Techworld-affiliated IDG News Service at SAPPHIRE, Kagermann reflected on his career and how his successor, fellow co-CEO Leo Apotheker, will do when he takes the reins next year.
• Coffee shops, conferences and communities: Getting the IT pro's attention
  Don't neglect your non-IT skills, advises Microsoft's Phil Cross, who has the job of engaging with IT professionals to get Microsoft's "message" out there.

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• Building a case for e-discovery
  Email discovery saved this construction firm both time and money.
• Kingfisher takes flight with roving agents
  An innovative use of networked handhelds improved customer service for this Indian airline.
• Eurodata unifies its comms
  Systems house Eurodata discovered that - when carefully deployed to the staff that need it - unified comms can pay off handsomely.

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