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Back to basics in 2009
Guy Cranswick, IBRS
The problem for some technologies, as they try to defend their purpose and role in a downturn, is their weak business case and lack of track record
The lesson of unconscious incompetence
James Turner, IBRS
Despite the growing body of information available on data breaches, many executives remain unjustifiably overconfident in their organisations' security capabilities.
HP cutting jobs, focusing on the future
John Madden, Ovum
It will take six to nine months for the first real signs of progress from the integration of HP and EDS to emerge.
Stateless desktops: looking beyond the VDI hype
Dr Kevin McIsaac, IBRS
Resolving these desktop concerns requires much more than simply migrating the existing desktop images to the data centre and running them in a virtualised environment.
When your cloud evaporates
Steve Hodgkinson, Ovum
Google App Engine, Amazon Simple Storage Service and Apple's MobileMe service have all experienced some high-profile service outages in the past few months
Myths busted
Beverley Uther
Despite perceptions of uneasy relations, Fairfax Business Research's recent survey of both CIOs and CFOs reveals a good deal of mutual interest and a positive working relationship, Beverley Uther writes.