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We currently have the following blogs on Techworld.


Storing up Trouble

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Storage matters to every business - they just don't always realise it.

By Chris Mellor

Latest entry :: Tue 13 March

Could EMC grow to be really, really big?

Could EMC join the ranks of companies at the very pinnacle of the IT business? What is going to stop it? more...

Casting the Net

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Notes around the topic of networking.

By Bryan Betts

Latest entry :: Mon 12 March

Virgin on the ridiculous....

I've been a customer of Telewest's Blueyonder services for the best part of a decade now, first on dial-up and then on cable modem, and mostly I've been very pleased with it – on the broadband side at least. The less said about the devious tactics used to force us from analogue cable TV to poorer quality digital TV, the better. more...

The War on Error

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One day they'll laugh at what we think is secure. Thankfully, we won't be there to hear them...

By John E. Dunn

Latest entry :: Tue 06 March

The strange case of the hack that wasn’t

It was called “Keygen”, a tool for stress-cracking Vista activation keys by churning through the vast number of possibilities one at a time at a claimed rate of 20,000 an hour. more...

Technically speaking

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Techworld's technical editor calls on nearly 20 years experience as an IT manager, CTO and consultant to cast his eye on the latest technological developments.

By David Cartwright

Latest entry :: Mon 05 March

Now where does this plug go?

I got a phone call yesterday (Sunday) from a company for which I did a server installation a few months ago. The server was a pair of Dell PowerEdges sharing an external StorEdge disk array, configured as a clustered pair with SQL Server running on top; trouble is, they'd moved all their kit across London from one datacentre to another, and they couldn't get the disk array to work. more...

A cog in the wheel

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Bill Bentley currently works in technical support for an ISP. Previously he's worked as an independent consultant and in Microsoft's head office in Redmond. He whiles away his hours on a helpdesk by dreaming of an eco-friendly farm.

By Bill Bentley

Latest entry :: Thu 01 March

Why Microsoft is scared of hosting

A friend - a clean-cut, all-American, Microsoft insider - leaned across the bar and said in a low voice: "Google frightened them. A lot. They realised they had to get serious". more...

The Blue Screen

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Regular comment on how business applications are shaping up in today's enterprise

By Maxwell Cooter

Latest entry :: Wed 03 January

Lies, damned lies and BT stats

BT is never a company that's shy of promoting itself. more...