vendors in comment and analysis
The tech requirements of private equity funds
Comment Funds are seeking technology applications from vendors to improve communication and collaboration, track investment and revenue performance targets, monitor portfolios and manage deal pipelines. Private equity has had a high, if mixed profile but... [20 Aug 2007]
The greening of IT: Why less is more
Comment Greenpeace has spent the last year berating vendors and subsequently there have been significant moves by Apple, Dell, Lenovo and others to clean up their act. Worthy though these are, and of course I cannot condemn such efforts, we must be very... [13 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.08.07
Round-Up The CompTIA is a 25-year-old trade body which certifies IT professionals and is funded by major vendors, including the Redmond software giant. If your sole hope in opening this week's Round-Up was to discover by chance which technology has been... [03 Aug 2007]
It's not easy being green
Comment The power vendors would say you would be investing in the creation of greener energy facilities down the line but would this be true? With many organisations now trying to 'out-green' the competition, we are rapidly running into the problem seen... [25 Jul 2007]
BI for all
Comment Changes are afoot in the business intelligence market as vendors aim to accommodate all types of users and companies. The challenge for other BI vendors lies in convincing SMBs that they need more than Microsoft's BI tools for reporting and analysis. [18 Jul 2007]
Brampton Factor: Bringing tech to the developing world
Comment Software vendors like to talk about intellectual property rights (IPR) as if they were God given. This makes the figures for lost revenue so beloved by software vendors completely illusory. But what are the deeper motives - and the best approaches? [17 Jul 2007]
Speeding up the net - is it possible?
Comment The simplest way to limit internet activity is with software from vendors such as Clearswift, Marshal, Secure Computing, Trend Micro or Websense. This includes the growing band of unified threat management vendors: SonicWALL, Symantec and many others. [09 Jul 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
Comment There is competition for resources and competition for vendors. 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... [19 Jun 2007]
Data centre in a box
Comment The payload does not have to be Sun hardware - there is nothing to stop you filling the racks with gear from competing vendors as long as it fits within the 200 kilowatts power and cooling limit of the box. [18 Jun 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
CIO Analysis There is competition for resources and competition for vendors. 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... [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]
How tech can make us greener
Comment The challenge for vendors and buyers is how to measure and quantify this green advantage. A quick straw poll of technology vendors suggests well over half are considering how to promote a greener message in their marketing. [24 May 2007]
Leader: Laptop as the most personal device?
Leader So while we have vendors touting laptops with leather cases, giant adjustable screens, remote controls, '15-hour battery life' (an extreme we haven't verified, by the way) and more, spare a minute to think about what's going on in the background. [10 May 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The big picture on 'the next five billion'
Comment Several big tech vendors from the developed world have a commitment to developing economies, not just developing software or hardware. It becomes incumbent, therefore, on technology vendors to be careful in how they approach these markets. [27 Apr 2007]
Editor's Blog: Grey areas, honesty and naivety
Comment And speaking to many vendors here it surprises me the level of enquiry from potential customers. silicon.com editor-at-large Will Sturgeon is blogging from the InfoSecurity show at London Olympia. Some interesting goings on at InfoSec. [26 Apr 2007]
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