The Register is hosting a webcast on Tuesday December 7th at 11:00AM on the topic of the Optimised Datacentre and the Private Cloud with experts from Freeform Dynamics and Microsoft . Virtualisation is now a central pillar of datacentre plans and activities...

Coca Cola may not immediately strike you as an obvious reference for how to use ICT innovatively to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public services. I thought it a solution story that is worth bringing to your attention here when viewing the...

Computing is undergoing a seismic shift from client/server-based systems to the cloud, a shift similar in importance and impact to the transition from the mainframe to client/server. At the same time, global economic conditions and public sector fiscal...

The Comprehensive Spending Review has set unprecedented challenges in meeting service delivery obligations on tighter budgets. Microsoft Cloud Services represents a credible means to rebalance IT spend, delivering affordable innovation that makes the...

You may be interested to read how we've rolled out power saving settings within Microsoft (and if you think your colleagues are hard to please with technology, imagine what it's like providing IT services for 100,000+ IT geeks). Our IT team at Microsoft...

Office Communications Online is a core offering of Microsoft Online services , providing presence, instant messaging and person-to-person (1:1) audio and video. Online services help simplify IT management by removing the need to deploy, configure, monitor...

Although I'm afraid I can't offer to send you a top-techie from Microsoft to help you with rolling out Windows 7 in your organisation, I can offer a good second best, thanks to the TechNet team. They got together with some of the product and support gurus...

Let me make it absolutely clear - I am not a virtualisation expert. But I have heard enough IT managers talking about their virtualisation projects to know that it's very important to their ICT infrastructure - whether that's reducing cost, cutting carbon...

ICT vendors can, occasionally, adopt the unrealistic perspective that customers operate in a homogeneous world where all systems and solutions fully integrate and the flow of information is seamless. However, the reality is invariably somewhat different...