A sound IT infrastructure is fundamental to today's businesses and when that infrastructure fails the consequences can be far reaching. Whether it is business-to-business, business-to-consumer or public sector organisations serving citizens, applications and the services they drive increasingly need to be available all day, every day. Many organisations find it hard to achieve such service levels. This briefing looks at some possible solutions ...
05/09/2007 | Quocirca_-_Managing_Small_Data_Centres_-_Sept_2007.pdf | VIEW
The general public is becoming increasingly cynical about the environment claims of businesses and with much bad press around data centres, information technology (IT) is in the front line. But data centres are actually the easiest bit of IT to control and consolidating infrastructure into them can help reduce the overall energy usage of IT and, if used well, IT itself can help businesses reduce their overall carbon footprint. ...
05/09/2007 | Quocirca_-_IT_and_the_environment_-_Sept_2007.pdf | VIEW
I have recently returned from a trip to India, where I listened to a presentation by Dr. Ajay Mathur, Director General of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency in the Indian government. There had been a lot of coverage in the Indian press about how the US had been pointing fingers at India, stating that until India sorted itself out on energy usage, it was pointless the US doing anything. ...
31/05/2008 | Green India - Is This Really an Oxymoron.pdf | VIEW
Server virtualisation is happening, and Quocirca's research shows that the growth in up-take is accelerating, albeit from a low starting point. However, there is a bit of a problem - virtualisation technologies are completely non-standardised, and a hypervisor from one vendor is not compatible with those of others. ...
09/04/2008 | Will Hypervisors need a Supravisor.pdf | VIEW
The indications are that 2008 is going to be a tough year for many on the financial front. ...
08/01/2008 | Prioritise to beat the Recession.pdf | VIEW
Most organisations looking at greening their data centres have probably investigated the standard approaches of rationalisation, consolidation and more efficient use of power ...
14/11/2007 | Hot issues for green IT.pdf | VIEW
Getting better performance from the internet is one of the biggest challenges facing the IT industry and will remain a key issue over the next few years. ...
05/11/2007 | Getting more out of the net.pdf | VIEW
Ever since I first started following the customer relationship management market in the dim and distant past, the lack of attention paid by companies to the quality of the data they hold has always galled me. From a customer point of view, I'm sure that all of us have received letters sent to a misspelt name, or where the gender title has been assumed, and has been assumed wrongly. ...
26/09/2007 | The Importance of Data Quality.pdf | VIEW
A lot has been written about utility computing, covering topics such as web services, service oriented architecture, blade computing and grids. As a means of making better use of existing hardware resources and creating a more flexible platform to meet ongoing changes in business processes, the promise of utility computing is difficult to beat. ...
12/09/2007 | Get on the Path to Utility Computing.pdf | VIEW
Virtualisation - a silver bullet, or a new way to waste money? ...
20/01/2009 | F5 - Computing Webinar on Virtualisation Jan 2009.pdf | VIEW
