Business Continuity - Knowledge is Power

Extending your IT resource into the cloud has become a lot more secure, as Steve Gold explains how businesses of all sizes can create a secure VPN between their physical IT storage and the cloud, allowing them access to...

Home working is often seen as the panacea for business recovery. “All our staff can work from home” is a phrase often heard during the business impact analysis. But can they really? There’s a huge difference...

Operators that delay implementing new operational and billing support systems (OSS/BSS) do so at their peril, and risk being relegated to wholesale providers of minutes and megabytes, says Tech Consultants Mason Communications....

European firms now spend 32% of their telecom and networking budgets on mobility solutions, and 70% of enterprises use some type of mobile application, according to a Forrester survey. Mobility solutions continue to play an...

In a year marked with continued acquisitions by major business intelligence (BI) vendors of companies within the BI and adjacent software markets, new version releases, and effective marketing and sales efforts by many small and...

Almost a third of businesses in the UK (28 percent) are unaware of the May 19th deadline for submitting their payroll year end tax returns. The survey of 1,368 businesses, conducted by You Gov on behalf of Sage (UK) Limited,...

As a follow-up to my earlier post on the Spy Act, it appears that this act has industry support. Adware/Spyware industry support, that is. We have always said that we support fair, well-written legislation, particularly national...

Global Switch, a provider of purpose-built high-specification data centres, has today released findings from a pan-European survey, revealing that IT downtime costs European businesses on average £300K per hour. Surprisingly...

MessageLabs and McAfee announced that new global research reveals that the majority of small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) believe an IT security breach would be detrimental in achieving their business priorities, however...

British business is failing to reap the rewards of IT innovation, research amongst top Chief Information Officers reported today. Too many boardrooms are still in the dark over IT's role in business transformation and managers...

Almost a third of businesses in the UK use small internet service providers (ISPs), according to communications regulator Ofcom. Only 5% of consumers use small, or niche, ISPs, the research found.The companies have 1.3 million...

Postini announced that the amount of email spam continues to grow at an unprecedented rate, setting a record level in December of nearly 94 percent of all electronic mail on the Internet. Postini blocked more than 25 billion spam...

Hosted VoIP telephony has experienced another year of steady growth, as the small business market continues to be the sweet spot with most deployments in the 20-to-50 seat range, reports In-Stat.Hosted VoIP will continue to...

The world's biggest dedicated business court will be built in London. The new court will incorporate many of the parts of the court service relating to business litigation in a brand new building.The Business Court will occupy a...

Britain’s ageing population will lead to a skills shortage in entry-level jobs which business is unprepared for, warns Archer Mathieson, a recruitment and interim management provider.A survey released by the company today shows...