The awesome scale of today's data centres can only be appreciated by touring them. Their huge halls house rack upon rack of equipment and feature seemingly endless corridors, spotless cleanliness, fortress-like physical security and resilience to power failure - all managed by just a handful of employees. They will not fail to impress. ...
14/09/2009 | Data Centres - the temples of IT.pdf | VIEW
As a person inhabiting what is commonly called a developed country, I'm used to computers being a central part of my life. However, for less well-developed countries, the idea that the computer will be the universal device just doesn't sit well with the realities of daily life. ...
04/09/2009 | The right device for the developingt world is not a PC.pdf | VIEW
With all the talk of mobilising the enterprise, you might think that companies were taking a strategic view of how mobility might change and enhance their business, right? Not really. According to Quocirca research over recent years, (first noted in 2005), less than one in six companies seem to have sorted out some form of mobile strategy, and the majority are just working on ad hoc or ‘retrofit' approaches. ...
20/08/2009 | Setting mobile strategy.pdf | VIEW
I've spent the last couple of days with Windows 7 - and it has been a bit of "The best of times, the worst of times". Windows 7 became available for IT professionals subscribing to Technet for IT pros on Thursday 6th August, and (for a change), it looked like Microsoft had sized its servers enough so that people could download the Windows images without everything grinding to a halt ...
13/08/2009 | Hands on with Windows 7.pdf | VIEW
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) turn to VARs to help them implement the IT applications on which their businesses depend. Year on year, this becomes more onerous because these applications have moved from being ‘nice to have' to ‘vital'. ...
11/08/2009 | Big Sales to smaller businesses.pdf | VIEW
The mainframe continues to be redied upon as a backbone, high-end computing platform. Meanwhile the skills to manage and maintain it are decling rapidly in availability. ISV CA is attempting to address this problem with it's Mainframe 2.0 strategy. ...
04/08/2009 | CA's mainframe management.pdf | VIEW
Software vendor CA recently played host to the Industry Analyst community with a mid year update. Some bright indicators are to found in the company's position, while a few product challenges remain to be addressed. ...
30/07/2009 | IT-Analysis - Not your Granddads CA.pdf | VIEW
The use of encryption is key, but identity management and DLP have their parts to play. ...
30/07/2009 | SIL-WM.pdf | VIEW
A recent event co-hosted by the Mobile Data Association and the Location and Timing Knowledge Transfer Network, looked at new and emerging location based technologies and applications that have the potential to change the way people and professionals plan their journeys and travel. ...
28/07/2009 | QUO the informed traveller.pdf | VIEW
A few years ago Quocirca reviewed the deployment of Microsoft ISA server by The Kensington and Chelsea NHS Trust in all its remote surgeries and clinics. Microsoft was keen to promote the fact that ISA Server (ISA stands for Internet Security and Acceleration) had won over specialist appliance based offerings for network acceleration. ...
21/07/2009 | Blog_-RSP_-_for_web_-_July_2009.pdf | VIEW
