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• Vendors weigh appliance plans for Microsoft backup

  Although Microsoft is keen to encourage backup appliances based on its forthcoming Data Protection Server (DPS) package, hardware manufacturers are remaining cautious about the concept.

• Why server users should be fault-intolerant

  Every server maker is focused on making Intel servers better datacentre citizens. Why not go all the way and make them fault-tolerant?

• Dell targets small businesses with new line-up

  Dell is targetting small business with a series of laptops, desktop and associated services to cure integration blues for organisations with less than 10 employees.

• Next generation hardware drives virtualisation boom

  Chip-makers are keen to talk up the benefits of their next-generation hardware solutions, especially when it comes to virtualisation, but will these solutions work for CIOs?

• 2004: the year of phishing

  Yet again denial-of-service attacks, spam, viruses - driven in part by an apparent war between virus writers - and cybercrime have hit the headlines over the course of the past 12 months.

Features and Case Studies (4)

• Will VoIP really drive convergence?

  Or is convergence just a pipe dream that should be quietly forgotten? Given all the talk about melding voice and data networks, why aren't more companies implementing it?

• Spreading your storage eggs

  If Australia ever experiences the kind of widespread power-outage seen in Italy recently, mirrored SANs could provide one way to keep data safe.

• Is 802.11g wireless doomed?

  A faster variation on the 802.11b wireless networking standard seems certain to arrive in the market too late to make any real impact. The 802.11g specification may cause little more than confusion, as it will be beaten to the market by the superior 802.11a standard, according to industry spokespeople.

• Mesh: The next step for wireless

  Mesh technology allows new wireless networks to be created, or existing WLANs to be extended, without needing a wired connection to each base station. Additional reading: WLAN Resource Centre

Reviews (1)

• Tablet PC shipments fizzle out

  Despite a much-hyped launch and an influx of new vendors, tablet PCs are not exactly flying off the shelves, according to new figures from Canalys, which says Microsoft is to blame.

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