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Will IP unify communications?
Comment But despite the obvious utility, businesses have not yet jumped on board and adopted these applications, even though some - web conferencing, for example - do not require a VoIP infrastructure to be put in place. [18 Feb 2005]
Q&A: Microsoft's CIO on Linux, security and offshoring
Comment We talked about taking $100 million out of the cost of the infrastructure. Last year, with Exchange, Windows, and SMS - that really dealt with the IT infrastructure side. In a recent interview with silicon.com sister site CNET News.com in San... [15 Dec 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Who's to blame for IT failures?
Comment Soon after I wrote last week's column about infrastructure, the systems at the Department for Work and Pensions apparently fell apart. It aimed to create an application layer that was independent of the underlying hardware and basic software. [30 Nov 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Ignore IT change at your peril
Comment As with other specialisms, there are plenty of skilled infrastructure managers. But, argues Martin Brampton, factoring in incremental pressures on infrastructure is the small thing that can make a big difference. [23 Nov 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Pick a killer mobile app
Comment Push-button instant access to groups on a single call, 'presence' information that shows who's busy before a call is made, voicemail forwarding and text-to-speech services can all be built into the infrastructure with negligible impact on the device. [29 Oct 2004]
RFID: It's no supply chain saviour - not yet anyway
Comment Firstly, physical infrastructure is an issue, according to AMR analyst Kara Romanow. Failure to do this up front could result in a 'slap and ship' deployment that puts the physical infrastructure in place but fails to enhance the business with it. [08 Sep 2004]
Security Q&A: Your questions answered (Part 2)
Comment Mark Morris, head of forensics at Logica CMG, answers: "This is a difficult situation to control with an individual who has had such a level of access to the infrastructure and systems. Will there come a day when a virus can be created to infect... [05 Aug 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: We must simplify SOA
Comment In short, utility computing is the practice of moving from a relatively inflexible, silo-based, application-focused environment dependent on specific hardware/software configurations, to a flexible, scalable environment based around functional... [23 Jul 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Out-of-the-box options
Comment Their message is one of holistic security: making the whole of your IT infrastructure including the network more secure. For these functions the appliance is not the de facto way of delivering an application but an additional or alternative way. [09 Jul 2004]
Inside offshoring: Location, location, location
Comment China would have to go through the problems and that lifecycle to build that infrastructure. China and Russia currently lack the resources or infrastructure to really challenge India, according to the analyst house. [23 Jun 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The promise and pitfalls of VoIP
Comment BT and Cisco, for example, have recently launched a hosted voice over IP service that allows enterprises to remove almost all in-house telephony infrastructure and expertise. At the same time we are starting to see the re-emergence of application... [21 May 2004]
Analysis: Choosing enterprise portal technology
Comment The market can be divided roughly into two parts, the infrastructure and the application side. The line between the infrastructure vendors and the application vendors is becoming blurred as infrastructure vendors move into the application space. [24 Mar 2004]
Where the growth of IM will take your business
Comment AOL is not going to become a credible enterprise infrastructure vendor any time soon," says Latham. The advantage of Microsoft is its ubiquity and control of the desktop and email infrastructure," says Gartner analyst Lou Latham. [23 Oct 2003]
Meta Group Quarterly: How regulation is driving IT strategy
Comment Near-term initiatives are consolidating the installed base, removing infrastructure and application redundancy, and increasing the velocity, range, and reach of information sharing. He is an acknowledged authority on the IT organisation, business... [09 Oct 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM and Microsoft must co-operate, offshoring and Openwave's open source gamble
Comment Offshore outsourcing has become a popular route for the financial services sector to reduce its fixed costs, not only of infrastructure but more significantly business processes, which may interact directly with the customers of the financial... [06 Oct 2003]
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