capacity in comment and analysis
Switch from oil to silicon
Comment One area that has not increased but has fallen dramatically is the direct cost of IT and comms, at least in terms of processing power, storage capacity or transmission speeds. Smaller firms that still see technology as a cost ripe for pruning are... [31 Jul 2008]
The McCue Interview: Martin Taylor, group CIO, LCH.Clearnet
Comment As such, tech investment at LCH.Clearnet is now driven by three guiding principles - reliability, security and capacity. So the technology for us is more about capacity, taking volume through, and making sure that everything is safe rather than the... [17 Jun 2008]
Computing on the go
Comment One of the key reasons the Asus has achieved these dimensions is because it uses a solid-state drive instead of a traditional hard disk, so its installed storage capacity is a rather paltry 12GB. Business travellers may feel they are being... [04 Jun 2008]
Minority Report: What's in store for the iPhone?
Comment It recently slashed the price of the lower storage-capacity iPhone by £100 to shovel units out of the channel and had trouble meeting demand soon after. It has since replenished stocks of the higher capacity 16GB version. [23 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom
Comment A case in question is the Docklands area of London where the electricity grid is operating at full capacity and companies are having to move server farms to new areas where there is sufficient power. For example, the average server farm is... [16 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die...
Comment For example, a Winchester Drive of 20MB capacity housed in something close to the size of my airline hand baggage was £20,000 in the early 1970s. Written in a coffee shop in Ipswich UK and dispatched via a company wi-fi service. [14 May 2008]
Cloud computing: Silver lining…
Comment Clouds vary in detail but all are designed to overcome capacity limitations, usually in the IT department. In the case of a data centre that is at or near capacity, clouds can provide an alternative place to run applications. [09 May 2008]
Naked CIO: The true cost of IT
Comment Yet, increasingly, I see projects that do not get deployed or where the capacity spent is more expensive than the value the solution provides. It's all very well trying to put price tags on everything the IT department does. [21 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: Animal farm
Comment I have also created an elastic pipeline that lets teams using agile methodology apply capacity to high-priority items without affecting lower priority ones. That's fine in principle, says the Naked CIO. [25 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars
Comment Here Betamax tapes were more expensive than VHS and had far less capacity. Written on flight VS003 from London to New York and dispatched via a free JetBlue wi-fi service at JFK airport. There are many theories about how one technology or brand... [17 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: Lords above!
Comment I fear that few chief executives realise the capacity of a data breach to hole their business below the waterline. It's been another week where silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign has loomed large, with two pieces of news emphasising why I'm... [27 Feb 2008]
Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation
Comment Because we have huge amount of capacity because we've actually built a network that's enabled for TV services. Mary Turner heads up the operations of ISP Tiscali UK, occupying the CEO's chair since September 2003. [21 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tax crash, mobile driving, eBay feedback, Vista woes…
Comment Did they not think to increase their capacity/resources available for this time of the year! What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest... [07 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Surfing at home, 'Big Brother' IT and batteries on planes…
Comment Any moderately high capacity battery presents significant fire risk if discharged catastrophically through an inappropriate medium. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. [10 Jan 2008]
Banking can execute change in real-time
Comment It gives the capacity to access and manipulate data easily, efficiently and quickly. The financial sector is 10 years behind the times in its approach to management - partly because banking systems are supposed to be too complicated to provide real... [02 Jan 2008]
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