Many organisations are still trying to come to terms with how (or even if) social media can help them in their day-to-day business. Well documented issues, such as postings from disaffected employees, campaigns backfiring or information leakage tend to make senior management wary – but overall, the potential business value and financial benefits of social media must be considered alongside controllable risks ...
06/08/2010 | cw - social networking.pdf | VIEW
Cloud computing has been hailed as the cure for all IT ills. Fortunately, a measure of reality is now returning to people's view of the technology and the business value it can provide. ...
05/08/2010 | silicon - 6 cloud.pdf | VIEW
Organisations today no longer have the luxury to be able to reach decisions the way they did in the “good old days” (well, maybe 5 years ago). Hierarchical decision making is too slow, too dependent on the knowledge and capabilities of immediate reports in the employment chain and is too prone to errors. The explosion of communication and collaboration tools (see figure 1) has provided many new means of communicating and collaborating – but has also introduced many issues that organisations are struggling with. ...
19/07/2010 | cw - connected enterprise.pdf | VIEW
Received wisdom has it water and datacentres don't mix. Water-cooling was a necessary evil in the age of the mainframe, but these days our dear little servers are perfectly capable of being cooled by the merest draft - probably along with a whiff of air freshener at the same time - right? ...
16/07/2010 | 360it - aquasar.pdf | VIEW
Payment card security compliance offers IT resellers opportunities at two levels ...
12/07/2010 | PCI CRN June 2010.pdf | VIEW
Quocirca's analysis and commentary on the printing industry. ...
01/07/2010 | Quocirca Printer Pulse June 2010.pdf | VIEW
Salesforce.com’s recent announcement of its VMforce platform for deploying Java applications is the latest in a long line of announcements from a wide range of vendors of such on-demand (or cloud based if you prefer) offerings. Many will be confused by the range of offerings and the terminology used to describe them and will be unsure of the risk and benefits. This gallery, written for Computer Weekly, by Quocirca aims to provide further insight. ...
24/06/2010 | XaaS - June 2010.pdf | VIEW
While Apple is keen to tout the iPad as a true alternative to the PC, pushing its web browsing, email, photos and video viewing capabilities, it does lack some features when it comes to business productivity—one of which is native printing support. ...
02/06/2010 | Quocirca iPad Printing.pdf | VIEW
The PCI-DSS payment card security standard may look complicated but complying with it is a good starting point for reviewing IT security ...
31/05/2010 | PCI DSS for Silicon - May 2010 PDF.pdf | VIEW
Understanding the ERP market can be complicated because many organisations use multiple products, so call 2-tier ERP. ...
31/05/2010 | ERP May 2010 PDF.pdf | VIEW
