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silicon.com
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[06.08.2008] The rise and rise of Infor
Salesforce.com is set to become a $1bn applications company, with latest quarterly revenues of just under $248m. For Mark Benioff and his team to have done this in just nine years is impressive.
Quocirca on Infor Aug 2008.pdf
VNUNet
[Article]
[03.08.2008] VNUNet - Measuring Datacentre Efficiency
Data centre energy efficiency has been getting an enormous amount of attention recently. While some companies on both the buy and sell sides are treating the issue as 'green IT', the fact is that there are a number of dr...
VNUNet Data Centre Efficiency.pdf
FastTalk
[Article]
[01.08.2008] FastTalk - SAM: Friend or Foe?
Software Asset Management (SAM) has often been seen as a necessary evil, used to ensure that software licences are used within contractual limits, so avoiding the possibility of fines should a company be found to have a...
ft - sam.pdf
silicon.com
[Article]
[01.08.2008] Switch from oil to silicon - digitise through the downturn
When the economy starts to slide, the easy option is to cut back, rather than invest.  After all, every cost saved goes straight to the bottom line, every amount invested will be subject to tighter scrutiny, and eve...
QUO downturn internet.pdf
VNUNet
[Article]
[01.08.2008] VNUnet - Virtual answers to real-life ills
Online virtual worlds are just for teenagers and twenty-somethings, right? To some extent, yes, but not entirely.
VNU-SN.pdf
Computer Reseller News
[Article]
[31.07.2008] Opportunities to minimise
On the face of it, datacentre consolidation and rationalisation may not sound like a prime hunting ground for new business. After all, the whole reason for carrying out the process is to discover under-used hardware asse...
DCAM July 21 2008.pdf
DM Review
[Article]
[30.07.2008] DM Review - Master Data Management and deduplication
Although the cost of storage devices has plummeted over the last few years, the cost of managing stored data continues to grow. Unfortunately, an organization's predilection for creating new data does not abate, and many...
dm mdm dedupe.pdf
silicon.com
[Article]
[25.07.2008] Secure remote access closes in
Virtual private networks that use internet protocol security used to be seen as a nightmare. But next-generation IPsec VPNs are changing all that.
NCP-SIL.pdf
IT Analysis
[Article]
[23.07.2008] iPhone, YouTube, we manage
Information technology now plays such a large part in our lives that its emotional impact in the workplace has drifted through a feeling of imposition and indifference and arrived at one of desire. Recently thousands que...
Quo queue.pdf
Bertl iTchat
[Article]
[21.07.2008] Managed Print Services - a cooperative approach to controlling the print environment
With the ever-present focus on cost savings, many organisations are under pressure to optimise their IT infrastructure to reduce cost. Whilst IT managers have focused primarily on consolidating desktops, servers, storage...
Bertl-MPS.pdf
ComputerWeekly
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[20.07.2008] ComputerWeekly - Measuring the Data Centre's Green Power
Recent Quocirca research shows that few data centre managers know how much power their data centres are using - which makes it difficult for them to come up with a well-constructed plan to optimise power consumption and...
cw-servtech.pdf
IT Analysis
[Article]
[18.07.2008] Navigating the minefield of e-discovery
Much is written about the increasing burden of regulations faced by organisations, be it specific to a particular industry or cutting across all sectors. But another key challenge faced by organisations is the threat of...
ITA-IG.pdf
IT Analysis
[Article]
[14.07.2008] Mind the gap - mobile coverage issues and the SMB
Mobile communications have transformed both personal and working life.  Not only do most of us regard the mobile as one of the three items we check we have on leaving home - wallet or purse and keys are the other tw...
QUO SMB mobile.pdf
silicon.com
[Article]
[30.06.2008] Straight Talking - A game of two halves
Over the past month or so, I've attended two Microsoft events. At the MMS event, discussion focused on an approach to virtualisation that showed a greater appreciation of the problems than I would have expected from Micr...
st-oslo.pdf
IT Analysis
[Article]
[28.06.2008] Cisco eats its own dog food - and it tastes OK
There continues to be much coverage in the press about the impact IT is having on the environment through increasing power consumption. As well as berating IT departments for the poor running of data centres and deployin...
Cisco video conf - June 27th 2008.pdf