Conclusion: Organisations that are still running Windows XP fleets are debating holding off a desktop refresh (to Windows 7) until Windows 8 becomes available. There are three key considerations to this discussion: product functionality,...

FOR years, the typical image of a data centre has been of a refrigerated room packed with towers of blinking lights and blue cables.
But the same drive to miniaturisation and efficiency that has shrunk the power of a PC into a hand-held device is sweeping through this last bastion of big IT.
Almost every IT hardware maker now offers a data centre solution packed into the form factor of a shipping container, and some commercial data centre service providers have begun building businesses around the model.