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Open source will save world by 2020, say experts

A group of open-source software advocates set out a road map for the software industry through 2020 at the Open World Forum conference in Paris on Tuesday.

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• Trapeze: our WLAN is tougher than Cisco's
  Wireless LAN vendor Trapeze says its network is more resilient than Cisco's - and it has a report to prove it. New
  From Peter Judge's The wirecutter blog »
• The lure of the Windows downgrade
  Two years after businesses first caught site of the new world of Vista, many are still turning their backs on it. New
  From John E. Dunn's The War on Error blog »
• SNAP to attention
  New research we've carried out among our customers shows that businesses are very concerned about attracting and retaining young talent into their companies.
  From The Burton Group's The Burton blog blog »
• Think before you start typing
  Remember they teach you requirements analysis at programmer school
  A client paid me a wonderful compliment the other day. He phoned to ask me for my thoughts on a new feature he's thinking of adding to a software product I designed for the company a while back.
  From David Cartwright's Technically speaking blog »
• Infamy, infamy, they all have it in for me
  I will admit to enjoying the delicious sense of irony as I watched Nick Leeson, the trader who famously collapsed Barings Bank back in 1995, give a talk on 'risk management in the real world' at Burton Group's Cataylst Conference in Prague this week.
  From Tom Jowitt's Defragging the enterprise blog »
• Controlling a phone remotely via VNC
  Talking to the guys from RealVNC at the Smartphone Show today, I realised I'd been a bit dim - their new mobile version is a server too, not just a client/viewer. (There's been VNC viewers for handhelds for a while now. I'd been wondering why they thought that was new. Duh...)
  From Bryan Betts's Casting the Net blog »
• Foggy Notion
  Into the cloud we go.....
  From David Hobson, Global Secure Systems's Hobson's choice blog »
• IBM sticks head in the clouds
  Don't you just love buzzwords?
  From Maxwell Cooter's The Blue Screen blog »
• Switch the Internet on please, love
  I recently saw something that I don't think I've ever seen before - a wireless router with a power button.
  From Techworld staff's The green screen of death blog »
• USB 3.0 promises more than speed
  Intel confirmed key aspects of the long-awaited USB 3.0 specification last week, but the hugely improved performance is perhaps the least interesting of them.
  From John E. Dunn's Half-eaten cake blog »

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White papers

• Gap Analysis: The Case for Data Services
  

  A data service approach makes data access and integration scalable by streamlining development and maintenance, whether applications speak Web services, SQL, or both.

• Livewire - Full-Server Protection and Recovery in Real-Time
  

  Simplify the restoration process and reduce the time and effort involved with server recovery.

• Thinking Beyond Tape: The Case Against Tape Backup and the Evolution of Branch Office Data Protection
  

  This whitepaper explores the high cost, complexity and potentially dangerous shortcomings of a strategy based only on tape backup.

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Zeus ZXTM 5.0 review

ZXTM combines a whole heap of features in one box - or as one software product if you prefer - and makes installing the whole shebang a simple job. We find that the virtual appliance works a treat ... who needs a box?

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Reviews

• SolarWinds ipMonitor 9.0
  The are plenty of network monitoring tools around, the trick is finding out which one works best for you. SolarWinds has always made much of its being designed intuitively for network engineers and, as we find, this is not a hollow boast.
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• Palm Treo Pro
  Windows Mobile is the Marmite of mobile operating systems: some users love the ease with which it enables access to business, while a good many more hate it. One self-proclaimed fan found that this phone uses Windows to fine effect.
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• GoodSync Pro 7.2
  Synchronisation is the alternative to backup, but it is also a much more complex world. Does this program keep life simple enough?
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• Billion BiPAC 7402GX router
  Billion's latest BiPAC ADSL router is an attempt to add 3G failover to what is otherwise a competent and well-featured if unadventurous 802.11g switch/router. Its other strength is its VPN capability.
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• Microsoft Hyper-V RC1
  With Hyper-V finally launched, it's time to have a look at how it stacks up against the VMware, the clear market leader. The result? While there's still some distance to go, VMware should start getting worried.
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• Aagon Client Management Platform
  A nicely-designed client manager for Windows-based PCs, with central monitoring and a good GUI, and which should scale well, thanks to being based on a proper DBMS.
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• Alienware MJ-12 8550i workstation
  Mention Alienware to most Internet users, and they will think of high-end games machines with every conceivable option on-board and a hefty price tag to suit. They’re less well known for it perhaps, but the company has also been carving out a similar niche in the professional workstation sector.
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Citrix XenServer - Virtualisation for every server in the enterprise
Citrix XenServer is server virtualisation that makes datacenters more agile and efficient through faster application delivery, higher levels of availability and improved utilisation of resources. Techworld has teamed up with Citrix to offer our users a free 30 day trial of the new release.

Articles

• Insight : XenServer 5.0 offers host of new features
  The debate about virtualisation has tended to focus on the scrap between the two major players - Microsoft and VMware - butthere's a third player in the arena, Citrix, that stays in the shadows. But its latest offering, XenServer 5.0 has a lot to recommend it. New
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• Interviews : SailPoint tackles the threat from within
  A Texas-based company has come up with a solution for large enterprises to protect themselves from disgruntled internal staff, which it says is a growing risk for companies forced to lay off staff during these tough economic times.
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• How-Tos : How to ... transfer data between BlackBerry devices
  Your company has upgraded its Blackberries and now everyone wants to know the quickest way to transfer data from a previous phone to a new one. Here's the answer.
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• Insight : Oracle offers compression to DBAs
  Oracle's powerful new HP Oracle Database Machine comes with 168TB of storage ... and a hefty price tag to boot. But there is another to boost processing power: the company's own efficient compression technology.
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• Insight : Time to stop treating removable disks like tape drives
  Disks do more - they blend archiving, online backup and CDP, argues Tandberg Data, as it gives Backup Exec the push from its RDX line in favour of Yosemite's Filekeeper.
  View more from the Data Storage Knowledge Center »
• Briefings : Get tough on telecommuting: 6 questions to ask before you say yes
  Proceed cautiously - teleworking can change office dynamics in ways you hadn't anticipated.
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• Insight : Data centre managers explore energy efficiency
  The rise in electricity costs, coupled with the increasing power consumption of modern processors, are leading to crippling headaches for data centre managers. A conference last week explored several ways in which data centres could save money.
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• Insight : Why is being a VoIP company such hard work?
  How many smallish companies have this list of woes in twelve months and get away with it? Here’s a rundown of Skype’s year to bury.
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