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Package software programming strategy for the seventies.(SOFTWARE IN THE 70's)
A review of the existing software situation leading to the suggestion for a new language for expressing software systems. FEW would deny today, the vital importance of automatic computing to the w . . .

Data center assessments: the first step to optimization.(SOFTWARE WORLD INTELLIGENCE)(Company overview)
Data centers are large, important investments that, when properly designed, built, and operated, are an integral part of the business strategy driving the success of any enterprise. Yet the central . . .

The Edgeless University why higher education must embrace technology.
Chapter Two Technology as cause: information technologies, learning and collaboration One of our roles has always been to make knowledge more visible to a large number of people. And collaborati . . .

Reports and surveys.(SOFTWARE WORLD INTELLIGENCE)(survey on mainframe skills in United Kingdom's workforce)
A Startling Shortage Of Mainframe Skills In UK A survey commissioned by CA has revealed a startling shortfall in mainframe skills among the UK workforce. Entitled The Mainframe: Surviving and Th . . .

The downturn and lags in usage take a heavy toll on countries in the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2009 e-readiness rankings.
Key developments: * The scores of all but nine of the 70 countries in the study decline in 2009 * Denmark--one of the nine-recaptures the top rank in the world e-readiness table * New indicato . . .

Three quarters of UK businesses believe Government can't tackle software piracy.
A staggering 72% of business leaders believe that the Government has lost the battle against software piracy, according to a survey of 350 business leaders conducted by FAST IiS, the not-for-profit . . .

Survey predicts continued strong growth of Linux use on mainframes.
Large enterprises continue to step up their investments in Linux on the mainframe in order to deliver more value to the business while controlling IT costs, according to a recent global study of lar . . .

Aperture Research Institute[TM] report.
The slowing economy is having very little effect on demand for IT services, while driving improvements in energy efficiency and resource utilization, according to a recently released report from The . . .

Social members vunerable.
Members of online social networks may be more vulnerable to financial loss, identity theft and malware infection than they realise, according to a new survey from Webroot, a leading provider of Inte . . .

Cloud confusion amongst IT professionals.
The findings of a survey by document management software company, Version One (www.versionone.co.uk), has revealed that 41% of senior IT professionals admit that they "don't know" what cloud computi . . .

4th Actuate annual open source survey includes China.
Actuate Corporation has announced that its fourth annual open source survey, has extended to include China and it has once again attracted record responses. Actuate's comprehensive international a . . .

20% admit to cheating.
A survey of IT security managers and technical staff has revealed that 20% admit to cheating on an audit to get it passed. The survey by Security Lifecycle Management company Tufin Technologies, was . . .

Getting on top of software Asset Management.
FAST Ltd, a UK authority on Software Asset Management and IT Compliance, providing software, education, consulting and managed services, hosted a CEO roundtable of industry SAM experts at the end of . . .

What IT customers can learn from Charles Darwin.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
Customers tend to view IT systems as a cost rather than an investment according to Sami Saoudi operations director of software developer MMCC consultants. Consequentially the initial cost of imple . . .

Aperture announces integration.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
Aperture have announced the integration of its IT management software application with HP Universal Configuration Management Database (UCMDB) at HP Software Universe 2009. Aperture VISTA data center . . .

NetSupport DNA 3.(IT News and Products)
Desktop and Asset Management specialists NetSupport announce the worldwide release of their Enterprise Management Suite, NetSupport DNA version 3 including as standard a new Energy Monitoring compon . . .

Enterprise risk management training.(IT News and Products)
Strategic Thought Group plc has launched a new range of training courses available to customers globally. Unveiled at the recent EMEA user conference held in London, the new program has been designe . . .

Vector networks new build.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
Vector Networks have released a new build of its PC-Duo[TM] PC Remote Control product providing server-side support for thin client sessions under Citrix and Windows Terminal Server. VP commented, " . . .

Sourcefire announces new virtual appliances.(IT News and Products)
Open source innovator and Snort [R] creator, Sourcefire, Inc. have announced the Sourcefire 3D System 4.9, with the new Virtual 3D Sensor[TM] and Virtual Defence Centre[TM]. These new virtual applia . . .

Aster data release.(IT News and Products)
Aster Data Systems have announced that any enterprise development team standardized on the Microsoft .NET development platform now, for the first time, has the opportunity to easily write "Big Data, . . .

Neolane Interaction.(IT News and Products)
Enterprise marketing software provider Neolane have announced the launch of Neolane Interaction, Neolane Distributed Marketing and Neolane Campaign Optimisation as new options for its marketing auto . . .

Global IT security survey.(Security News and Products)
Twelve months after the Cyber-Ark "Trust, Security & Passwords" survey discovered that 33 percent of IT staff used their IT administration rights to snoop around networks to access privileged, corpo . . .

Apple recognizes threats.(Security News and Products)
As Apple has provided more information about Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X (10.6) to be released in September 2009, the company has also publicly recognized the virus and malware threat . . .

Finjan's research unveils botnet trading platform for hacked PCs.(Security News and Products)
Finjan Inc. have announced that its Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC) managed to research a trading network and botnet, where compromised PCs are bought and sold for profit. In the second issue . . .

Spammers direct users to MSN to spread sleazy messages.(Security News and Products)
IT security and control firm has discovered an unusual spam campaign which tries to lure recipients to engage in a flirtatious MSN chat, before ultimately redirecting them to an adult website. Acc . . .

Phishers target leading UK bank customers.(Security News and Products)
A fraudulent scheme targeting the online credentials of Lloyds TSB customers features in the latest E-Threats Landscape Report from BitDefender. The phishing attack features a plain, yet clever unso . . .

Insight Investment.(Security News and Products)(Brief article)
Brocade[R] have announced that Insight Investment, part of the HBoS group has selected Brocade to provide its entire business network. With Brocade DCX Backbones in the storage fabric and Brocade Bi . . .

New StoneGate FW-1060 and IPS-1060 appliances.(Security News and Products)
Stonesoft have recently introduced the new StoneGate FW-1060 and IPS-1060 for efficient proactive defence. Client-based attacks target employee browsers inside the network, trying to use them as ste . . .

Kaspersky Lab patents cutting-edge technology.(Security News and Products)
Kaspersky Lab. has released the successful patenting of cutting-edge information security technology in the US. The technology in question effectively detects and deletes malicious software and remo . . .

Rogue antivirus program.(Security News and Products)
In light of reports of increasing incidents of scareware and rogue antivirus programs recently appearing on the Internet, Barracuda Networks Inc. announced it is aware of a Web site promoting a rogu . . .

Step by step testing of medium-sized programs.(TECHNIQUE)
TESTING of programs must always be thorough. Determining the thoroughness of testing requires skill and experience but it is fair to say that if all the paths in the program have been followed (exce . . .

Four approaches to advancing practical installation: methods for reading output quantity, checking input data to see if it can b
We have all been reading and discussing recently the revolutionary developments which could take place in the application of computers during the decade just about to start. Most are practicable now . . .

The impact of disk fragmentation on servers.(SOFTWARE WORLD INTELLIGENCE)
Testing Server Disk Defragmentation IT professionals responsible for server hardware well understand the value that professional grade disk defragmentation software brings to their servers. Storag . . .

Lombardi University: a comprehensive BPM talent development program.(SOFTWARE WORLD INTELLIGENCE)
Lombardi have recently announced the formation of Lombardi University(TM), a first-of-its-kind comprehensive BPM skills development platform. Through Lombardi University, individuals can get role-ba . . .

Infosecurity Europe 2009.(SOFTWARE WORLD INTELLIGENCE)
A selection of papers from exhibitors at Infosecurity Europe 2009, Europe's dedicated information security event. Now in its 14th year, providing an education programme, new products & services, ove . . .

Reports and surveys.(SOFTWARE WORLD DIGEST)(2009 Infosecurity Europe)(Pierre Audoin Consultants )(Conference news)
Infosecurity Europe Visitors Increase The 2009 Infosecurity Europe show - held at Earls Court in London last month has proven to be a recession-proof success, with visitor attendances up on the 20 . . .

IT news and products.(SOFTWARE WORLD DIGEST)(Company overview)
Open Text Acquisition The Canadian Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendor Open Text has announced it is to acquire Vignette Corporation one of its competitors. Under the terms of the deal Vign . . .

Security news and products.(SOFTWARE WORLD DIGEST)
Trojans dominate BitDefender's Top Ten Malware for April BitDefender's lineup of the ten most prevalent threats for April is dominated by Trojans, an on-going trend for this year. These threats, w . . .

Current hardware and software.(DATA FAIR NOTES)
This exciting title covering three short talks with question and answer sessions failed to live up to expectations, as the authors clearly expected, due both to the inadequate time available and the . . .

Aids for program interchange.
The concept of program interchange has been the fundamental idea behind the creation of Software indexes such as the 10,000 strong NCC National Computer Program Index, and hire and buy schemes in th . . .

Perspective on recent software developments: a critical review of the present software situation with emphasis on contemporary p
THE most obvious thought that springs from a scan of software releases in the last few months is a rather ungracious one: the absence in the U.K. of an RPG program for the Digital Equipment Co.'s ra . . .

Everyone a computer specialist: a case for the development of user orientated autocode languages using the notation and terminol
Why not? Well, let us look at the realism of such a statement. Present day thinking has led to the establishment of computer departments with the usual structural divisions. That is system analysis, . . .

Essential ITIL: what you need to succeed.(Organization overview)
Judging from the types of questions that come up at my talks and seminars, one of the hottest topics in IT Service Management (ITSM) today is the new ITIL[R] v3 guidance and what to make of it. Pe . . .

Software as a Service: it's about the business model, stupid. This white paper stresses an alternative view to the prevailing te
There seems to be a near universal consensus that Software as a Service (SaaS) is going to have a major impact on the business world in the next few years. In spite of this, virtually all of the dis . . .

Cloud-based security services: will 2009 be the year this much hyped sector come of age: Pravin Mirchandani, CEO of network secu
The term Security-as-a Service was first coined by the marketing folks at McAfee in 2001 to describe their vision of an outsourced approach to the provisioning and management of the full range of an . . .

Infosecurity Europe 2008: a selection of papers from exhibitors at Infosecurity Europe 2008, Europe's dedicated information secu
Are we heading for Internet Lockdown? Greg Day, Security Analyst, McAfee International Ltd Those with responsibility for managing appropriate use of an organisation's IT systems have a greater c . . .

Clearpace and DataDirect partnership.(Clearpace Software)(DataDirect Technologies )(Brief article)
DataDirect Technologies and Progress Software Corporation have announced that Clearpace Software is using the DataDirect[R] OpenAccess[TM] software development kit (SDK) and runtime software compone . . .

Force 10 networks launch.(IT News and Products)
Force 10 has launched a new Switch/Router which has some significant features enabling data center and IT managers to plan for and begin the move forward to tomorrow's converged network fabrics. The . . .

Optimistic outlook for European data centre sector.(IT News and Products)
Jones Lang LaSalle has published its first Data Centre Barometer research report, which focuses on the European data centre real estate market and features an independent market survey (undertaken b . . .

IT at heart of next industrial revolution.
In 10 years' time we will be able to put an entire year's worth of our waking experience--in digital quality--on a laptop. By 2039 that could extend to a record of our entire lives. The technology i . . .