centres in comment and analysis
Far from quiet on the virtual front
Comment This summer's intense activity in virtualisation could shape the options for smaller businesses as well as for data centres. Quocirca's Dennis Szubert picks out the main developments. What's been happening in the world of virtualisation over the... [05 Sep 2007]
The greening of IT: Why less is more
Comment Data centres in particular have come under severe criticism for their insatiable appetite for energy to power the processors and then keep them from overheating. IDC estimates that for ever dollar spent on IT hardware, 50 cents are spent on energy... [13 Aug 2007]
It's not easy being green
Comment Rationalising hardware and consolidating data centres are definitely ways of lowering power utilisation, to a small extent, but the messages have been played many times over with a different slant - whether for the rising cost of real estate, the... [25 Jul 2007]
The McCue Interview: Richard Snooks, CIO, Capital & Regional
Comment Zone revenue to the web and a new booking system for The Mall shopping centres. It makes money from rises in property value and from management and performance fees for developing the portfolio, which includes The Mall chain of shopping centres... [09 Jul 2007]
How do you get your head around 'risk'?
Comment Therefore companies must identify all areas of potential IT risk - from staff taking their laptops home to large amounts of data residing in third party data centres - and understand what risks are actually posed and how they can be managed or... [06 Jul 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
Comment Earlier this year the company announced plans to save billions of dollars through an IT overhaul that includes closing half of its 42 data centres by the end of 2009, standardising applications and using fewer vendors. [19 Jun 2007]
Data centre in a box
Comment Wind forward 30 years and you know real progress has been made when you find yourself talking about portable data centres. Fill it with high-performance gear and one of these boxes would be in the top 200 supercomputer centres in the world. [18 Jun 2007]
The hard reality of virtual world litigation
Comment This case centres on virtual property maintained in a virtual world on the internet. Duane Morris's Eric J. Sinrod outlines the dilemmas. More and more people are participating in virtual worlds on the internet and where people go, litigation follows. [14 Jun 2007]
Gordon Lovell-Read
CIO Profile Since then Lovell-Read has rebuilt trust in the IT function and aligned it more closely with the rest of the business, deploying a single SAP platform, moving to a common set of business processes, centralising and outsourcing the IT... [06 Jun 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
CIO Analysis Earlier this year the company announced plans to save billions of dollars through an IT overhaul that includes closing half of its 42 data centres by the end of 2009, standardising applications and using fewer vendors. [06 Jun 2007]
Ian Cramb
CIO Profile It is currently a time of radical cost-cutting at Citigroup, which is halving the number of data centres it uses, reducing the number of vendors it works with and moving to standardised applications as part of wider group plans to save $10.4bn... [06 Jun 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The big picture on 'the next five billion'
Comment The creation of specific technology centres within many countries will lead to destabilisation of the supply and demand of basic staples and to unsustainable use of resources, first at a local level but rapidly growing to a country, regional and... [27 Apr 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.04.07
Round-Up Some believe Second Life is on its way to becoming a key point of contact for customers, with some consultants imagining call centres could ask customers to follow up a phone call by moving the support call into virtual worlds. [13 Apr 2007]
Editor's Blog: Banking on a human or computer?
Comment And clearly call centres can get your goat. Well, it was partly my finances, mostly those of my daughter - now approaching the ripe old age of five months. Either way, I was shocked by the experience. [21 Mar 2007]
India diary, day 10: Lost in Pune
Comment It is an issue I'm going to return to again as I'll be visiting more research centres when I go to the tech capital that is Bangalore - which is where I'm heading next. I've set myself a bit of a challenge for my second day in Pune - three meetings... [13 Mar 2007]
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