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The McCue Interview: eSure head of IT Mark Foulsham
Comment The company also benefits from a hosting platform shared within the HBOS group for web and call centre applications - though Foulsham is quick to stress eSure retains a great deal of autonomy over its own IT strategy and architecture. [27 Nov 2007]
The greening of IT: Cooling costs
Comment Every car journey made to the video store to rent a DVD produces more carbon than hosting the film in a data centre and streaming it on-demand. Witness the growth of on-demand entertainment services such as IPTV, and businesses moving to a pay-as... [21 Sep 2007]
Leader: In or out of house?
Leader When this publication asked whether response times on BA.com were slower than if BA were hosting that aspect of its service itself, we were told that actually the on-demand system was faster. In IT we're used to the debate about doing something... [19 Apr 2007]
CRM: Hosted vs packaged - which to choose?
Comment There is also greater acceptance of applications hosting as companies warm to outsourcing. Analyst Forrester says many medium-sized businesses continue to seek an on-premise deployment rather than on-demand applications because many organisations... [02 May 2006]
CRM on the comeback trail
Comment The delivery of CRM in the longer term might also be shifting, as the hosting model continues to gain traction. On-demand software eliminates complexity and speeds deployment. In the past there was a rush to sell the product across the entire... [28 Sep 2004]
Devil's Advocate: The state we're in - simply a break down in communications?
Comment Well, they did have a go at diversification when there was a belief that a vast quantity of hosting centres would be needed. Now it seems Colt is quietly closing seven hosting centres and 15 of Cable & Wireless' smaller centres are to go. [09 Jul 2002]
Ebusiness Despatches: Why I hate IT scaremongering
Comment The tech giant hosting the first get-together once could do no wrong. Last year 75 million cars were manufactured but there was only demand for 50 million. For over 20 years it was a fast growth stock, posting quarter on quarter profit increases... [19 Jun 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM Global Services - the reckoning, Sun re-branding and Unix wars
Comment Sun has clearly recognised the demand in the market for less expensive machines capable of hosting high availability, critical applications. We've already seen some evidence of this with the development of IBM's web hosting business into IT as the... [22 Apr 2002]
Web host gives up the ghost
Comment Some voices in the market are looking at third generation mobile as a possible source of new demand for web hosting, but this seems like a case of replacing one unsustainable fad with another. Step forward CityReach, the docklands web hosting... [31 Aug 2001]
Seizing power: Richard Baguley has been on the ground in California since the lights starting going out
Comment In California, we get the best fibre optic links from companies such as UUNet, GTE and Sprint and we don't plan on moving and opening new offices," said Stan, an employee at Pacific Net Management, a web-hosting company in San Francisco. [04 Apr 2001]
Penguin in a blue suit: Linux on the corporate mainframe
Comment Second, it runs primarily on mid-range servers - great for Web-hosting, not so great for bulk transaction processing. But that could change very soon, because the suits at IBM have bowed to the ever-increasing demand for a Linux port to the S/390... [17 May 2000]
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