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Comment A train-wreck of a migration plan, always likely to fail, and driven by BA marketing puff of how great we are. The Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5) chaos has dominated reader comments this week, with many readers, unsurprisingly, astonished it went so wrong.
[03 Apr 2008]
Comment Talking to managers with everyday first-hand experience of this migration process, it's clear there is a real gap between the theory and practice of taming these applications for corporate advantage. Experts are forecasting an important role in the...
[19 Feb 2008]
Comment The SaaS provider concerned, a relatively large player with a significant customer base, said nothing could be done - the scale of their operation and the nature of the upgrade translated to a significant migration exercise for them, so it was...
[16 Jan 2008]
Comment Foulsham moved to Macquarie to oversee the IT migration and potential buyers for the companies, before landing at eSure. Given the image problems associated with both areas, working in IT in the insurance industry a few years ago would probably...
[27 Nov 2007]
Comment While government has no credible strategy for migration to open systems they will constantly look foolish as the rest of the world moves on. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week?
[20 Sep 2007]
Round-Up It's just that Apple has decided to continue its migration towards players with flash-based memory and updated its entire iPod product range leaving only one 'classic' device with a hard disk. There was a deafening cheer from Microsoft's marketing...
[07 Sep 2007]
Comment Vizioncore provides tools to simplify the management of virtual environments, covering dynamic back-up, performance monitoring, migration and disaster recovery. As for the other summer announcements, the XenSource Version 4.0 release brings it into...
[05 Sep 2007]
Round-Up Finally the CIO is also expected to be 'chief information officer', though the focus is on information rather than IT, which the Round-Up always thought was the whole crux of the role - to emphasise the migration from the server room to the...
[31 Aug 2007]
Comment At the present rate of migration our new home will be dominated by IPTV within five years and I'll be wondering what to do with all that old coax and a lot of boxes. IPTV is gradually taking over my viewing time as conventional TV content seems to...
[30 Apr 2007]
Comment The West went through massive changes in the 19th century as the industrial revolution progressed, with mass migration from the rural economies to the cities. Again, this migration has bred large shanty towns and/or low cost, low quality housing...
[27 Apr 2007]
Comment Underlying this is a wholesale migration to IP. The era of converged telecoms services is bringing big changes to the operators. Stewart Baines looks at what they'll need to succeed in the future. Operators are undergoing the most radical change...
[02 Jan 2007]
Comment So can we expect a major PC-to-Mac migration? But it won't cause a mass migration, either. Seb Janacek isn't betting on it. Apple has announced that a host of executives including CEO Steve Jobs will preview the next version of the Mac OS X...
[11 Jul 2006]
Comment UBM has just completed an 18 month migration from Unix to open source and Microsoft's .NET. Despite being the obvious route to the top, a degree from a good university or an MBA isn't always necessary for the IT guy to break into the upper echelons...
[22 May 2006]
Leader Currently identity fraud is seeing something of a migration from the US to Europe, according to Bryan Sartin, VP investigative response at Cybertrust. It goes without saying that most people, in business at least, only admit a mistake for one...
[03 Apr 2006]
Leader Which brings us to the deeper trend at play here - something IT directors have every reason to be cautious about: the migration of software into the enterprise that was never designed for the enterprise.
[11 Nov 2005]
Leader As much as firms would like to move away from their old IT systems, they can't because the risk of losing data through a migration is too big for them. There seems to be a feeling of urgency in the IT industry to constantly update and move on.
[08 Nov 2005]
Comment Trials are currently underway in Cardiff, where a huge migration will see 350,000 lines in the city transferred to the new IP-based network. 'Innovation' is a word that Matt Bross, CTO of BT, is fond of bandying around when talking about BT's...
[22 Sep 2005]
Leader As the average migration will take around three months, and there are - oops - just over three months to go until the deadline, if you aren't going to act soon you could end up in trouble. Journalists always find that deadlines concentrate the mind...
[20 Sep 2005]
Comment A few months later came the big surprise of 2005 - the company abandoned the PowerPC architecture and made the leap towards Intel processors, its third major platform migration, following the original move from 68K to PowerPC and then from Mac OS...
[02 Sep 2005]
Comment Indeed Dell is in the middle of its 'Sundown' migration from Sun hardware - which has seen 39 migrations from Sun Solaris boxes to Dell platforms with a further 27 planned for this year. So declares a printout stuck on the in-tray of one of the...
[09 Aug 2005]
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