pcs in comment and analysis
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment Equipment PCs, servers, printers, cooling systems - all come with an embodied carbon footprint. True sustainability is much more than hammering the data centre over power, says Martin Atherton. The current penchant for invoking green IT whenever... [17 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up Of course, you can still run XP on new PCs you just need to buy Vista and downgrade it. Bill Gates is many things to many people. Brilliant technologist, ruthless businessman, chino-trousered philanthropist, founder of the most influential... [27 Jun 2008]
Leading a horse to water
Comment We have over five million public servants - say you had about four million PCs. It's a testament to his standing in the CIO community and an acknowledgement of just how critical his role is. CIO50 2008: Top 10 [23 Jun 2008]
RIM co-CEO: Qwerty is the next big thing
Comment And then as it became easier to manage, as it came down in price, as it became more ergonomic what happened was all these businesspeople, who're also consumers - when they saw it available in the store, for a price that they can have it in their... [16 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?
Comment All businesses care about the experience their users receive when working at their PCs. Demand on corporate networks for distributed services these days goes well beyond the usual IT tasks. But actually measuring how distributed a business is can... [24 Apr 2008]
Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user
Comment Mac bashers fall back on the same old arguments to justify the alleged superiority of PCs. On the 10th anniversary of his Damascene conversion from the PC to the way of the Mac, Seb Janacek reflects on what it is that made him the sad little geek... [17 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation
Comment My oldest children can remember black-and-white TV but there were no colour services, nor were videos, PCs, mobile phones or broadband available. Written on JetBlue 0038 flying from JFK to Rochester NY, and dispatched via a free hotel wi-fi service. [26 Mar 2008]
How to give tech to those on less than $1 a day
Comment Partners in Learning can make use of another Microsoft initiative, Microsoft Authorised Refurbisher, where PCs are recycled from other areas, ensuring that data is erased and that the underlying Windows licence is validated before donating them to... [07 Feb 2008]
The Naked CIO: Time to wage war on home users
Comment Why do we provide PCs and internet connectivity for staff who from time to time want to connect to the office from home? This means for a sensible and best practice policy to prevail I must stealthily construct an iron-clad case to reclaim company... [04 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.02.08
Round-Up Let's take an analogy - and being a dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist the Round-Up's going to use the usual car analogy to differentiate between Macs and PCs. For completeness' sake, Linux-driven PCs can be a Mercedes, too. [01 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.01.08
Round-Up Past keynote addresses have introduced Tablet PCs and various digital household objects that, truthfully, have yet to enter the mainstream with any particular success. "And now, the end is here And so I face the final curtain. [11 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.01.08
Round-Up It kind of puts installing SP2 on a few dozen PCs into the shade, doesn’t it? On New Year's Day 2008 reports of another damp squib emerged from Seattle. Revellers on the 600ft Space Needle enjoying a fireworks extravaganza to mark the new year were... [04 Jan 2008]
Data encryption brought into focus by HMRC
Comment A recent survey showed that almost 90 per cent of public sector IT managers said staff would open unknown emails and 75 per cent connect private USB devices to their work PCs. The issue of data encryption has been brought into sharp focus recently... [21 Dec 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Christmas wish list
Comment These mighty machines have long been eclipsed by PCs and other devices that fit the bag, pocket or hand, consume a few watts and provide each of us with massive computing capabilities at vanishingly low prices. [20 Dec 2007]
How to baseline power consumption
Comment Such solutions are useful for trying to measure energy use in the data centre but what about all those office PCs? Let's say I have a floor of office space, with 15 individual PCs and some personal printers, some networking devices and so on, and I... [14 Dec 2007]
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