Tom Jowitt

Articles by Tom Jowitt

Monitoring of unstructured data on the rise

Eighty per cent of a company's data store is unstructured data, and until a few years ago it wasn't protected, says data governance software provider Varonis

IPhone trumps BlackBerry in reliability contest

The failure rate of iPhone units was significantly lower than those of BlackBerry handsets and Palm Treo phone users suffered the most malfunctions according to a study by electronics warranty firm

Security staff migrating to business

A recent study indicates that security professionals are set to move beyond IT director control in future, as they take a more proactive approach in order to secure their organizations.

Software-as-a-service sails across the Atlantic

A new survey shows a significant number of European organizations will adopt the technology in the next two years

UK base stations not required to have backup power

Backup is recommended but not mandated by government

Archiware adds encryption, CDP to backup package

After making its name in the publishing industry, the German firm is going after other markets like education, where there is a mix of PCs and Macs

Linutop consumes just five watts of power

A French company develops a small desktop computer that includes an AMD Geode LX700 (x86) processor, and comes with 256MB of RAM but doesn't become an energy drain

UK university networking labs get dedicated fibre

A government-funded computer network for education researchers has launched a dedicated fibre network to help research on future networking technologies.

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