It has had many pseudonyms over the years – Cloud Computing aka The Cloud, aka Application Service Provision aka Utility Computing aka Software (and God knows what else) as a Service – but the MO has always been exactly the same.

Small may be beautiful, but where PCs are concerned small always meant expensive too. Recently though, that notion – and the PC marketplace itself – have been quite literally turned on their heads by a (very) little, modest-sounding thing called the Netbook.

Businesses the world over are, now more than ever, searching high and low for new ways to cut costs, to boost profitability and efficiency, and to find that elusive competitive edge – often fruitlessly. But one remedy could be right under their noses in the shape of a mysterious creature known as the Enterprise Software Mashup.

Even as virtualisation technology continues to find a significant foothold in strategic enterprise IT operations, it’s becoming clear that it still has some big mountains to climb.

Under pressure to adopt greener technologies, organisations looking for encouragement from Government financial incentives and subsidies will find there’s currently a lot more stick than carrot, writes Christine Horton.

Green may or may not be the new black – but there’s no doubt that more environmentally conscious IT deployments can help put IT budgets back in the black and make a major impact on bottom line while they’re at it.

Insight has teamed up with Google Enterprise this July to bring Google Apps online applications and services to Insight’s client base across EMEA.

CRM has been around since the late 1980s and so, naturally, has had its fair share of both proponents and detractors over the years. Any technology with that kind of longevity is bound to.