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Plan B Disaster Recovery
Reviews Plan B's disaster recovery service is particularly attractive to small and medium-sized companies with a handful of business-critical servers that need protecting with minimal effort from in-house IT staff.
Tags: Appliance, Backup, Password, IPSec VPN, Plan B, Plan B Appliance, Server, VPN, agent, network
Banking's a risky business
Insight After 26 years of work experience, CIO Michael Leung says he still hasn't seen it all. His biggest challenge: post-merger activities and the replacement of the core banking system.
Tags: IT Management
BAT shares to gain
Insight With its IT shared services model going places, British American Tobacco has bigger ambitions for its Group Service Delivery unit.
Tags: IT Management, IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring
Report: Microsoft to unveil Kumo search engine next week
News Company expected to demo its next-generation search technology at the D:All Things Digital technology conference, according to reports citing unnamed sources.
Tags: Search, Microsoft Corp., Conference, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Search Engine, Spokesperson, Ina Fried, News Corp., Search Technology
Microsoft's Kumo sneaks out in public
News Some of the design changes that are part of the upcoming search engine revamp are now in limited public testing, the software giant confirms.
Tags: Search, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Search Engine, Kumo, release candidate, software, Search Technology
Microsoft to start testing 'Kumo' search service
News Beginning this week, some of Redmond's employees will get access to the new look for Microsoft's Live Search, CNET News has learned.
Tags: Search, Twitter, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search, Tool, Kumo, Environment, co-founder, Search Technology, search tool
LHC restart pushed back further
News The U.K.'s Large Hadron Collider will come back online in late summer 2009 at the earliest, and not in June as previously expected.
Tags: Supercomputing, Infrastructure/architecture management, R&D, CERN, James Gillies, accident, theory, director, R&D, Infrastructure/architecture management
Replicating your infrastructure in a lab
Techguide Learn two ways to replicate your current environment for testing and evaluation of new server platforms.
Tags: Servers, Microsoft Windows, Server platforms
Google anticipated Microsoft legal tussle
News Expecting legal action, Google had countermeasures in place when it hired former Microsoft exec Kai-Fu Lee, court documents say.
Last week in Microsoft
News Virus writers are targeting a new Microsoft tool that will be part of Windows and is set to ship as part of the next Exchange e-mail server release.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office
Can Microsoft catch up with Google?
News news analysis No, but the software giant has been trying some interesting new things in search. And it has the money and time to spend on startups and new search features.
Tags: Search, Internet advertising, Web sites, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Search Engine, Advertisement, Facebook, strategy
Foundry postpones vote on Brocade merger
News Foundry Networks adjourns shareholder vote on Brocade merger until Wednesday, after failing to get enough investors to sign off on the deal on the first attempt.
Tags: Mergers, Processors, Servers, Storage, Bank Of America Corp., Foundry Networks Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., News.com, shareholder, merger
Yahoo shares fight to regain ground
News Yahoo shares take a hammering after Microsoft pull out from its bid for takeover.
Tags: Earning reports/forecasts, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Credit Suisse First Boston, Yahoo! Inc., Advertisement, software, BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., shareholder
Dot-com bust hits Web hosting biz hard
News The dot-com bust is prompting a land crash, but it isn't in San Francisco housing prices--it's in the Web hosting business, as companies have spent billions on massive data centers around the country.
Week in review: Of mice and Microsoft
News Apple introduces the Mighty Mouse, while Microsoft deals with security issues and shops at Wal-Mart for a new exec.
Tags: Keyboards and mice, Microsoft Windows
