architectures in comment and analysis
The Brampton Factor: Software costs under pressure
Comment Factors such as business process outsourcing (BPO), software as a service (SaaS), service-oriented architectures (SOA), along with the rise of the emerging economies, are cited. Hardware prices may have fallen over the years but software costs... [22 Nov 2007]
How tech can make us greener
Comment New components and architectures could be designed to be more energy and resource efficient. There has been plenty of discussion about the negative impact of IT on the environment - power use and waste - but what about the plus points? [24 May 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: BI to go mainstream?
Comment Commonly based on the new service-oriented architectures, these suites are focused on driving BI standardisation across the enterprise by integrating OLAP (On Line Analytical Processing), query and reporting, dashboards and also data integration. [01 Dec 2006]
Paul Otellini
AS Profile This year the company launched its new Core and Core 2 chip architectures which have been widely acclaimed as the its best ever. Why? Chipping away in a tough market It's a slide down the Agenda Setters rankings for Paul Otellini, who became Intel... [25 Sep 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: SOA - huh?
Comment Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are the subject de jour with IT vendors, who have been using the term as if the concept has been totally understood by the buying audience and is well along the way to general implementation. [22 Sep 2006]
Q&A: SAP CEO Henning Kagermann
Comment I would expect that the customer will try to check and test the flexibility of the SOA architectures and bring point solutions in but, nevertheless, he has the maintenance and managing of different suppliers, etc. [18 Apr 2006]
The Minority Report: Macworld predictions
Comment The most compelling argument for putting Intel inside its consumer machines first is that while Mac OS X has long been capable of running on both PowerPC and Intel architectures, as Jobs confessed in June 2005, software and applications from third... [06 Jan 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Gov't IT - get it right
Comment The advent of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) should be an absolute godsend for public sector IT, where the need to employ 'joined up' services across organisations mirrors the need to apply processes across different parts of the value chain... [01 Dec 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Grid's a 'no-brainer'
Comment Grid is dependent on virtualisation of the environment - of the network, storage, databases, hardware and services - and this is happening due to the move towards open standards and the acceptance of web services and service oriented architectures... [18 Nov 2005]
Q&A: Sun CEO Scott McNealy
Comment We're one of three processor architectures - Intel-AMD being one, Sun and Fujitsu's Sparc being another and Power being another - that are going to survive. Sun's chief executive has been working for years to put the server and software company... [24 Jun 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Who's to blame for IT failures?
Comment Rapid strides in networking technology made this ever more feasible than previously, especially combined with network architectures that delivered both programs and data efficiently. Soon after I wrote last week's column about infrastructure, the... [30 Nov 2004]
Analysis: The network is the security
Comment Fragmented security architectures are a liability today, because they are expensive, an operational burden and can't provide adequate security protection. Given the growing scope of threats and the limitations of current security architectures, a... [14 Jul 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Is programming dead?
Comment Software was rewritten through changes of operating systems, databases and architectures. Web services wouldn’t exist without all the work that’s gone into the development of application architectures that take most of the work out of the software... [23 Apr 2004]
Analysis: NAS and SAN uniting
Comment The world's two main networked storage architectures - SAN and NAS - are breeding. EMC, IBM and less well-known storage specialists such as BlueArc are beginning to mix and match the best elements of network-attached storage (NAS) devices and... [26 Jan 2004]
The McCue Interview: Barclays CTO Kevin Lloyd
Comment It is specifically around the policies, the architectures, the application environment, security, governance and technical innovation and leadership for the group," he explains. Barclays' CTO Kevin Lloyd admits that he rose through the ranks from... [23 Dec 2003]
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