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03 July

The lowdown on the Techworld product awards

We're often asked why certain products won an award - or why others didn't. We don't want the judges' decision to be shrouded in secrecy so this year we're setting out why the winners triumphed.

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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.'
• The future of enterprise search
  Future search systems will get to know the user - and communities of users - as much as the content it crawls, analyses and indexes, say observers.
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• 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.
• 5 things to consider before committing to SAP
  AMR Research analyst Jim Shepherd details five SAP strategies in his report, and how they affect your technology decisions.
• 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.
• With Determina, VMware drops fortress mentality
  Nand Mulchandani, VMware's senior director for security products, defends the company's reputation in the security community while clarifying that developing new products will keep it one step ahead of rivals.
• 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 size affects your view of unified comms
  Europe's large enterprises and small-medium enterprises see the dilemmas and challenges of unified communications rather differently.
• The truth about people and cameras
  Thinking videoconferencing is plug-and-play could get you into hot water.
• Microsoft finally clears throat about services
  Microsoft has been promoting a combination of 'software plus services' as a way to ease itself away from its packaged-software legacy and into the Web 2.0 future. But nobody seems to sit up and take notice.
• Software-as-a-service now on menu of large companies
  Although some would trace back the roots of software as a service to mainframe timesharing, what we would now call SaaS, or on-demand computing, is really experiencing its second coming.
• Apps security testing tools growing more popular
  Providers of apps security testing software are experiencing boom times as customers look to tighten up their development testing.
• WAN war breaks out over changed file formats
  A changed file format has sparked off a fierce war of words between users, WAN acceleration vendors and the software company involved.
• Online conference paints telepresence green
  Pushing telepresence as a way to cut the cost of corporate travel hasn't worked too well, so the industry is now talking up its green potential as well.
• Hands up everyone who likes Office 2007’s user interface?
  Office 2007’s dark secret: most of its good features could have been done with a handful of add-ons.
• Building a case for e-discovery
  Email discovery saved this construction firm both time and money.

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