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Putting the finishing touches on your Windows 7 migration

After installing Microsoft's new OS, copy your Apple iTunes files and data

How to use Virtual PC with Windows 7

Create virtual machines, run Windows XP applications

How to optimise Windows 7

Squeeze the best performance out of Microsoft's new OS

How to get Windows 7 half price

Online retailers offer OEM software on the cheap

How to transform your operating system into a chameleon

Want to make your Windows XP machine look and act like Windows 7, or turn your Linux machine into an ersatz Mac OS X?

Mac OSX Snow Leopard Upgrade: The Facts

Everything you need to know for an easy install

How to virtualise your Mac desktop

Free virtualisation tool can give your Mac multiple personalities

How to secure Vista

What the manual doesn't tell you.

Case Study: A pair of green-IT users

Austin Energy and WellPoint show how to grow your green credentials.

How to improve your datacentre operations

Inspect your 'emergency power off' situation.

Case Study: The virtual virtualisation case study

Follow the adventures and misadventures of fictional Fergenschmeir in depth as it deploys its first virtual servers

Case Study: Supercomputer travels way back in time to predict climate future

Climate research applications help fuel more demand for high-performance systems.

Case Study: How to build a datacentre in six months for $800,000

Home healthcare firm built datacentre that saves on space, power, cooling and IT effort.

How to protect yourself from Windows 7 hacks

Get the best security for Microsoft's new OS

How to customise Windows 7 your way

Getting the best out of Microsoft's new OS

How to deploy Windows 7

Microsoft's new operating system is nearly here

How to fix Snow Leopard and HP printer problems

Tips and cheats to fix printing woes

How to add a desktop dictionary to Ubuntu

Follow the simple steps to check your text with Google.

How to get started with virtual machines

Get many of the benefits of having multiple computers without much of the cost.

How to customise Windows to suit your needs

Tweak Windows and Word settings to suit your needs, switch to full-screen view, and streamline Windows patches.

Case Study: Water-cooled servers gaining steam

The secret lies in its efficiency.

Check-list for the economic green datacentre

Planting the seeds for the green datacentre.

Case Study: Servers go front and centre

Data centre projects are rising to the top of the project stack for 2008. Here's why.

How to keep virtual test environments in check

Virtual test environments need to be managed or they can run amuck.

How to choose the right virtualisation technology for your environment

Walk through the numerous factors influencing the choice of virtualisation software.


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Database security: Preventing enterprise data leaks at the source

IDC discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data, and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices...

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Service-oriented security

SOA has become an integral part of enterprise software by providing a framework to efficiently develop software as services that is easily sharable, reusable, and integrated. No where is the need more apparent than in the Identity Management space. Welcome to the age of Service-Oriented Security (SOS).

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Data protection prospective vendor checklist

Organisations need a way to map business needs against all these challenges in procuring a technical solution. To help, SANS has developed the following Prospective Vendor Checklist.

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Unlock the power of the mainframe

This whitepaper presents the notion of CICS as an integration hub based on a component-based, service-oriented architecture supporting Web services. Highlights will review the challenges and contrasted support for Web services natively in CICS.

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COLT White Paper

Are all VoIP services the same?

Questions to ask your service provider to ensure you get the VoIP service you need
With careful choice of partner, your business can have all the advantages of VoIP access - reduced costs, flexibility and simplicity - without the drawbacks.
This white paper is your guide to ensure you get right the VoIP service and details the pitfalls which businesses would do well to avoid.

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Ride the express lane in the journey to speed ITIL adoption

Explore the challenges in making the journey to ITIL and the criteria for selecting consulting services
By following ITIL practices, your IT organisation will become more closely integrated with the business. We recommend making the journey to ITIL in a sequence of six incremental steps, the phases of which are driven through execution of a strategic transformational roadmap.

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