When he penned the line in “As you like it”, Shakespeare could have been predicting the evolution of corporate marketing, as the internet enables even the smallest organisation to have a global presence, and the battle for customer eyeballs drives the need for innovative and interesting approaches to customer acquisition and lifetime value. ...
02/08/2011 | BCW gamification.pdf | VIEW
As one of a rush of vendors that have been jockeying for position in the race towards being a major cloud vendor, IBM has made another set of announcements over its own approach to cloud computing. It is being done under the banner of SmartCloud (part of IBM’s overall umbrella message of “Smart” – Smarter Planet, Smarter Cities, Smarter Computing, with more to come). ...
01/08/2011 | cloudpro-smartcloud.pdf | VIEW
Increasingly, there is a need to be able to manage the whole of an IT platform, not only at the server, storage and network levels, but also at the software, performance and even the datacentre facility level. This has led to a new term being bandied around – enterprise resource planning for information technology – ERP for IT or just ERP4IT. However, to see whether this has any value to the business, it is first important to see how we have got to where we are today. ...
27/06/2011 | ERP for IT - cw.pdf | VIEW
The concept of thin client computing goes back a long, long time. Essentially, the first computers, using green screen monitors, were carrying out all the business logic at the centre and using the monitors as a means of presenting the results to the user. As distributed computing took over and PCs proliferated, organisations soon saw that information was also becoming disseminated across a multitude of devices. Through the use of centralised stores masquerading as virtual local drives, this was brought back under some degree of control. ...
27/06/2011 | vdi - cw.pdf | VIEW
The increasing diversity of user end points is a security challenge for IT departments. How can the risk be mitigated? ...
11/06/2011 | ETM - end point management and security - for web.pdf | VIEW
Quocirca recently completed a research project for Oracle covering 919 data centre managers’ views on cloud computing. ...
09/06/2011 | silicon - cloud perceptions.pdf | VIEW
Quocirca's perspective on the managed print services market ...
09/06/2011 | Quocirca Printer Pulse June 2011.pdf | VIEW
Are reports of the desktop's death greatly exaggerated or are we really entering the tablet age? ...
01/06/2011 | QUO post PC.pdf | VIEW
Xerox’s acquisition of NewField IT, a UK based print consultancy and software solution provider follows hot on the heels of HP’s acquisition of Printelligent, a US-based managed print services (MPS) provider. With both HP and Xerox looking to expand the penetration of MPS to SMBs and midmarket organisations, the acquisition of these companies provides the additional capabilities that both companies need to ensure higher penetration rates. This market remains a largely untapped opportunity for channel partners to capture on-going service revenue opportunities in an increasingly commoditised hardware market – the acquisitions enable both vendors to approach SMBs via the channel with a services-led model that provides distinct business value to the customer. ...
31/05/2011 | Quocirca Channel MPS Article May 2011 Final.pdf | VIEW
As more staff use their own devices to access corporate data, firms should be devising a security architecture that is as much about creating business value as about cutting risk. ...
16/05/2011 | NG EP mg and sx - May 2011 - for web.pdf | VIEW
