HP cutting jobs, focusing on the future

It will take six to nine months for the first real signs of progress from the integration of HP and EDS to emerge.

Stateless desktops: looking beyond the VDI hype

Resolving these desktop concerns requires much more than simply migrating the existing desktop images to the data centre and running them in a virtualised environment.

When your cloud evaporates

Google App Engine, Amazon Simple Storage Service and Apple's MobileMe service have all experienced some high-profile service outages in the past few months. Is it safe to rely on the cloud?

Myths busted

Despite perceptions of uneasy relations, Fairfax Business Research's recent survey of both CIOs and CFOs reveals a good deal of mutual interest and a positive working relationship, Beverley Uther writes.