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Editor's Blog: silicon.com - what a difference a decade makes
Comment It's called 60-Second Pitch, and takes a brave vendor and gives them just one minute to pitch their product to three seasoned CIOs. The Naked CIO: What makes a great IT leader? Sadly I couldn't find any of it in my trawl but I remember seeing the... [11 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: The V-word
Comment But because of the barrage of pointless communications as soon as I know a call is from a vendor, I close up and go into rapid dismissal mode. You see, not every call from a vendor is irrelevant to me. [09 Jun 2008]
Cloud computing: Silver lining…
Comment On the other hand you might hear about a marvellous setup from a barely known vendor and find yourself worrying about the likelihood of them going out of business and taking your application and data with them. [09 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security
Comment Before investing in a new product from a content-filtering vendor, perhaps based on some lively marketing relating to the hazards of data leaks, IT departments should take a good look at what is already in place and what gaps need filling. [02 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white
Comment Multi-vendor management The Naked CIO: IT staff disloyalty Uncoordinated procurement is not only time consuming but also costly because it reduces purchasing power and complicates service control. First, the management of the printing environment... [22 Apr 2008]
Vendors hype up compliance fears
Comment Read the average vendor white paper on the issue and it seems that picking your way through the regulatory landscape is as dangerous as navigating a field of stinging nettles in your birthday suit. It's the interest of some vendors to put the fear... [08 Apr 2008]
The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel
Comment Being the CIO for a tech vendor can often be something of a double-edged sword. On the other hand these vendor CIOs face many of the same challenges of their CIO peers working for non-tech companies. As the CIO of a tech vendor Bandrowczak spends a... [01 Apr 2008]
How to detect data leaks
Comment A survey carried out by security vendor Websense across Europe, found two-thirds of UK users sent confidential information to their home email without recognising the potential risk. It is caused by users not being aware of the implications of... [19 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08
Round-Up The Seattle giant has also told users who encounter problems to turn their computers off and then on again, and if they still experience issues to upgrade their software or contact the appropriate vendor. [22 Feb 2008]
Systems management hits impasse
Comment We know that much will depend not just on the capability of a given tool but on the relationship with the vendor and how its own strategy aligns with that of your own business. Furthermore, future vendor alignment does not have to match the past. [13 Feb 2008]
The truth about software as a service
Comment Microsoft, the world's largest software vendor, generally resorts to the marketing muscle approach when some upstart turns up with an exciting new idea that challenges the behemoth's profits. Microsoft itself is both an antivirus vendor and online... [23 Jan 2008]
Losing control in the SaaS lane
Comment But about six months ago we saw a demonstration of the latest release of the applications underpinning the online service by the original vendor of the software. Evangelists for software as a service (SaaS) say it is the way of the future. [16 Jan 2008]
How to baseline power consumption
Comment These take vendor estimates of power usage and factor them into a software model of the data centre, enabling managers to establish at least a rudimentary baseline model for energy use. Today there aren't many good solutions, easy to use, tailored... [14 Dec 2007]
How closely are you monitoring?
Comment A PC will give systems management tools a certain amount of information back through the Windows management instrumentation (WMI) built into Windows, says David Solin, R&D solutions architect within the CTO's office at software vendor BMC. [10 Dec 2007]
Why must IT go green?
Comment Now the vendor community has the green bug: everything, from desktop PCs to mobile base stations, professes to be green. Every vendor message these days screams that its hardware, peripherals, network equipment and even software is green. [03 Dec 2007]
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