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ERP to take a hit in 2009, but CRM looking strong

While ERP sales are set to fall in 2009, spending on CRM software will increase, says IDC.

Security appliance market shows growth, says IDC

European security appliance market resists difficult final quarter.

By Phil Jones, CTO, Shoden Data Systems

Mainframe is dead. Long live mainframe.

As with Mark Twain, the reports of the death of the mainframe have been exaggerated.

Pravin Mirchandani, CEO of Syphan

Cloud-based security services - will 2009 be the year this much hyped sector comes of age?

Pravin Mirchandani, CEO of network security specialist Syphan Technologies, argues that the emergence of new high-speed security technologies as we head into a recession is likely to be the catalyst f

Mark Duffelen, director and general manager, Office Group, Xerox UK

The Channel Challenge

Moving from a volume hardware sales approach to a consultative and applications-led one can create many challenges for those companies more used to reselling or distributing ‘boxes’ of hardware.

Survival of the fittest

In a downturn, winning business internationally could be a key survival tactic.

Ward Carter, president of Corum

Software M&A — should you be a player?

Virtually no one is immune to the dynamic forces of the worldwide financial meltdown.

Andy Hardy, managing director, International sales,

2009: The year of the perfect storage storm?

While UK firms need to grow their storage capacity, they are challenged by a lack the budget, physical space and energy supplies to do this.

Maggie Berry, director at womenintechnology.co.uk, a career and networking portal for women in the IT

Women and the world of IT

Forget the idea of the ‘IT guys’, Maggie Berry discusses life in the IT sector for women.

Good management equals good security in new world of virtualisation

One technology still receiving mind-share and wallet-share in these recessionary times is virtualisation.

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