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How closely are you monitoring?

Comment A software agent might help IT departments monitor the capacity of a RAID array, for example, or assess how many empty CPU cycles an underused server was burning through. But the trick is knowing what to monitor and then how to monitor it, says...

Tags: monitoring, management, efficiency, performance

[10 Dec 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 24.08.07

Round-Up The latter bit of Lambert's statement is even more interesting: illiterate and innumerate workers armed with a vast array of gadgets are much more tech savvy than their bosses. Hola! Let's take a moment to examine the state we're in.

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[24 Aug 2007]

Network horror stories expose need for understanding

Comment One UK government agency, for example, found it owned a vast array of disused technology still plugged into its network, including a mainframe computer that had somehow escaped the IT manager's gaze. Here Will Sturgeon exposes just how wrong it can...

Tags: bandwidth, network management, network security, network

[12 Apr 2007]

Stop communications overload before it starts

Comment Anyone checking the array of mobile email solutions will realise that where once emails could be 'pulled' on demand, they are now most often 'pushed'. When attempting to improve communications across an enterprise, individuals can quickly become...

Tags: information overload, inter-departmental communication, mobile phone, communication

[26 Mar 2007]

Unwired: Prepare for the next generation

Comment Djanogly City Academy, the UKs first ICT specialist academy, found their pupils use IM more than any other tool except email and that these tools sit alongside VoIP apps, SMS, mobile phones and the plain old telephone system to create a hugely...

Tags: next generation, young people

[10 Oct 2006]

Minority Report: Apple in your living room

Comment A wireless device that looks like a vertically challenged Mac Mini with an array of connection options at the rear, iTV allows content to be streamed from any computer, whether Mac or PC, over a wireless network onto a household television via...

Tags: movie downloads, itv, apple

[09 Oct 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 16.06.06

Round-Up No of course you haven't but that hasn't stopped a bunch of students from Central St Martins taking this as their design brief and coming up with an array of 'challenging' designs which give us a glimpse of exactly why so many people have issues...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[16 Jun 2006]

Analysis: The 3G world map

Comment North America has a large array of operators and mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) but in the US the 'big four' (until recently a 'big six') are Cingular, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless, all with various technological standards.

Tags: 3g

[08 Jun 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 13.01.06

Round-Up The jeans, expected in stores this autumn, are going to come with an array of features including, according to reports, a pocket with a docking cradle, a retractable headphone unit and 'a joystick remote control' (seriously, do they want their...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[13 Jan 2006]

Leader: How to jail a cybercriminal

Leader If we are to see a greater array of convictions for cybercrime we need to have in place a recognised means of quantifying and reporting the damage done and a way of conveying to a judge that £1m of malicious or wanton damage online is exactly the...

Tags: writer, virus, cyber, crime

[12 Jan 2005]

Will's Web Watch: Can banks improve phishing defences?

Comment There is a confusing array of methods being employed to communicate with customers currently, from regular emails and text updates to occasional emails and SMS messages on an 'as and when basis'. It was always a curious oversight that banks tended...

[11 Jan 2005]

Q&A: Dell CMO on consumer electronics

Q&A: Dell CMO on consumer electronics

Comment We are pretty excited about the potential to really expand the role of the PC as the central entertainment appliance in the home and then to market an array of access and communication devices. Michael Kanellos recently spoke with Dell's marketing...

Tags: mike george, consumer electronics, dell

[03 Dec 2004]

Devil's Advocate: The thing that could save chip-and-PIN

Devil's Advocate: The thing that could save chip-and-PIN

Comment It was then that I noticed the array of PIN pads along the counter. One downside to chip-and-PIN technology is having to remember a PIN number each time you make a purchase. What could help, says Martin Brampton, is if those all-important digits...

Tags: security, chip and pin, egg

[27 Jul 2004]

Analysis: Choosing enterprise portal technology

Analysis: Choosing enterprise portal technology

Comment There is a dizzying array of companies in the enterprise portal space, ranging from enterprise software stalwarts such as SAP and Siebel, through infrastructure giants such as IBM and Sun, to pureplays such as Broadvision and Plumtree.

Tags: portals

[24 Mar 2004]

Devil's Advocate: The big deal of government buying small

Devil's Advocate: The big deal of government buying small

Comment Combine this with your tax record, health record, email activities, mobile phone and credit card usage and you have a pretty formidable array of information. The issue of government procurement of IT is hardly a new one.

Tags: government procurement, devil's advocate, devil

[09 Mar 2004]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Time for mobile apps

Comment The array of applications and vendors that offer a solution, each with its own different perspective on solving your problem, proffers a bewildering choice to the end user. Is your organisation's strategy for mobility the right one?

[25 Feb 2004]

Devil's Advocate: Bounty hunters

Devil's Advocate: Bounty hunters

Comment Given the absence of a deep understanding of our vulnerable position, combined with an inadequate array of defences, it seems that the initiative is with people like the author of SoBig. Martin Brampton says the Sobig worm is best viewed as part of...

[11 Nov 2003]

Online dating's new love: IM

Comment whose US site hosts a vast array of personals advertisements, attests to IM's allure. Instant messaging is becoming a popular aphrodisiac in the world of online dating. In recent weeks, software company PalTalk introduced a personals service for...

[25 Nov 2002]

E-voting: Essential to the future of democracy

Comment So three cheers for the array of pilot projects taking place across the country today. It's difficult to get excited at the prospect of a local election but today's could turn out to be more historic than most.

[02 May 2002]

3GSM Review: Cannes anyone find a killer application?

Comment The handset vendors were there with their big 3G demo trucks, the usual array of small companies were there selling enhanced ringtone systems and picture messaging, but the only killer app on display was the one that flattened the rat.

[01 Mar 2002]

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