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  • Grid projects to harness PC power to cure world's ills

    IBM, along with representatives of the world's leading science, education and philanthropic organisations, has launched a global humanitarian effort that applies the unused computing power of individual and business computers to help addre...

  • Cisco looks to SNIA for SAN standards support

    Confidence in the storage market is extremely reliant on the evolution of standards in the industry, so Cisco's news of its Virtual SAN technology receiving recognition by an American standards body is good news for users of its technology.

  • IDC questions reality of utility computing

    The IDC has carried out research that reveals that only seven percent of organisations in Australia are seriously thinking about embracing a utility computing model in the future despite vendors chanting about how valuable their utility se...

  • Criminals gangs plant insiders in banks

    Australian financial companies will have to brace themselves for a new criminal trend that has already hit the U.K. and could catch on over here too if hackers and fraudsters consider it an opportunity too good to miss.

  • Microsoft gears up for battle with Google

    Microsoft has launched a new web search tool, which it hopes will rival the Google for providing users with instant search capabilities, as a move to counteract Google's transformation into a multibillion-dollar company.

  • Sarbanes-Oxley Act stretches out its claws

    The dreaded Sarbanes-Oxley Act was finally unleashed this week in the United States, meaning major enterprises had to meet the deadline of completing reviews of their internal financial controls, which could cost them dearly, and in turn a...

  • Sun shines on circle of trust

    Constant threats of fraud and identity theft have given organisations the jitters around the world, so more businesses are turning to authentication processes all of the time to help overcome these insecurities.