There is a paradox at the heart of 21st century business processes. The effective sharing of data makes these processes more efficient but carries an inherent risk that the data may be compromised. ...
10/10/2011 | CRN mobile SMB - Oct 2011.pdf | VIEW
Despite fears of being replaced by robots or computers, the terms that twenty-five years ago described the use of IT in different professional sectors were less about substitution and more about support. Programmers used computer aided software engineering (CASE) tools, doctors used computer aided tomography (CAT) scanners and engineers used computer aided design and manufacturing (CADCAM) systems. ...
02/09/2011 | QUO computer aided.pdf | VIEW
Dell is a company that has been busily reinventing itself and seems to taking the right steps towards being a true cloud player ...
25/08/2011 | Cloudpro - dell.pdf | VIEW
As the politicians continue to argue over the causes of the riots that hit the UK in early August 2011, much pontificating has gone on about the role that Blackberry Messenger (BBM), Twitter and Facebook played in the events. ...
25/08/2011 | silicon - SN riot.pdf | VIEW
The last few years have seen a flurry of activity in the business intelligence (BI) markets. Firstly, the old-style approach of reporting against data in a relatively static manner was put under pressure by users demanding something a lot more flexible, where they did not need to approach the IT department every time they needed to create a report. ...
24/08/2011 | BI for the enterprise - cw.pdf | VIEW
Along with the increasing ubiquity of technology comes the increase in the amount of electronic data. Not many years ago, corporate databases tended to be measured in the range of tens to hundreds of gigabytes. Now, multi-terabyte (TB) or even petabyte (PB) databases are quite normal, with the World Data Center for Climate (WDDC) storing over 6 petabytes of data overall (although all but around 220TB of this is held in archive on tape) and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) having over 2.8PB of available data around atomic energy research as well as physics projects and so on. ...
24/08/2011 | big data - cw.pdf | VIEW
In November 2010, David Cameron announced plans to support the evolution of a high-tech area in East London. From Old Street to Stratford, an area based on what had started out as “Silicon Roundabout” (a grouping of 15 high tech companies) would emerge to foster new technologies and those dependent on the use of innovation in their core businesses. ...
22/08/2011 | BCW tech city.pdf | VIEW
As Google prepares to broaden its attack on the end user device market with its Chrome operating system, it may pay to look to the past for comparative approaches to see what future problems Google may find. ...
18/08/2011 | BCW google chrome.pdf | VIEW
In all the talk about the consumerisation of IT, it's the encroachment of consumer mobile devices - in particular smartphones and tablets - that appears to be causing most passion. ...
16/08/2011 | QUO consumerisation.pdf | VIEW
Oracle is a different company to the one many have grown up with – it is no longer a database company that just happens to have a few applications tagged on. The acquisitions of the last few years have made it into a major applications force. Oracle has made over 65 acquisitions in the last 10 years, changing the way that it has had to operate and what it can offer to the markets. ...
11/08/2011 | Cloudpro - oracle.pdf | VIEW
