Banks Take up Virtualisation

Fifty-nine percent of tier-one banks are implementing virtualisation in IT, according to KRC Research in a report commissioned by Microsoft.
Curious that Microsoft sponsored such a report – industry experts have long thought the company had a very limited interest in virtualisation because it would reduce the number of Windows licenses an enterprise needs. Microsoft bought […]

The Italian solution to data privacy

With banks coming under pressure to take better care of customer data, and government organisations losing large amounts of information seemingly ever other day, perhaps the Italian authorities have found the solution.
For reasons of “transparency”, the Italian tax authorities have published the salary details of all tax-payers – not as high a proportion of the working […]