Features

• Disaster recovery: Save the day

  By Patrick Budmar | 28 May, 2012 11:39

  2011 was a bad year for natural disasters. Several nations were rocked either by earthquakes, tidal waves, or floods. There was even a nuclear accident. But has the tumultuous year convinced businesses to bolster their disaster recovery?

• Defining 'big data' depends on who's doing the defining

  By Brandon Butler | 10 May, 2012 20:41

  Big data is an IT buzzword nowadays, but what does it really mean? When does data become big?

• Analysis: Why Linux is a desktop flop

  By Maria Korolov | 30 April, 2012 21:28

  It's free, easier to use than ever, IT staffers know it and love it, and it has fewer viruses and Trojans than Windows.

• What's in the Tech Crystal Ball For 2011?

  By Katherine Noyes | 08 December, 2010 07:43

  Market research firm IDC makes a number of tech-related predictions near the end of every calendar year, but its prognostications for 2011 may well be among the company's most dramatic yet.

• Cloud Computing: How big is big data? IDC's answer

  By Bernard Golden | 08 May, 2010 00:37

  I came across a link to a new report from IDC called the "2010 Digital Universe Study".

• SMB Virtualisation: Taking the virtualisation journey

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 21 April, 2010 18:58

  It’s not new technology, but to SMBs, virtualisation can still be a scary unknown quantity. MATTHEW SAINSBURY investigates ways partners and vendors can allay those fears to the profit of everyone.

• 2010 tech forecasts: What the accurate analysts predict

  By Bill Snyder | 06 January, 2010 07:07

  A venerable New Year's tradition in the tech world entails trotting out year-old predictions by analyst shops and laughing at their off-base prognostications. But here's a surprise: The two biggest analyst firms still standing -- Gartner and IDC -- did a pretty good job a year ago forecasting the shape of IT in 2009, as did the smaller Forrester Research and 451 Group.

• A mobile utopia

  By Georgina Swan | 09 December, 2009 15:12

  Mobility has become the dream for corporates both large and small, and an opportunity for the channel to tackle. But presenting a comprehensive mobility solution is a significant technology and business challenge. GEORGINA SWAN reports.