software solutions in comment and analysis
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security
Comment These specialist solutions identified and eliminated spam but also targeted its sources and cut them off. Before spam became a big problem, there were still specialist email security vendors like Clearswift and Marshal Software that checked... [02 May 2008]
SAS UK boss talks SaaS, innovation and his first 90 days in the job...
Comment We've provided hosted solutions - so software as a service - predominantly in the US market for about seven years. Our sales model and our solutions model now is increasingly focused around specific industry sectors and we need to deepen the skills... [02 Apr 2008]
How to baseline power consumption
Comment Today there aren't many good solutions, easy to use, tailored for this particular kind of problem," admits Tom Bishop, CTO of business services management vendor BMC Software. Such solutions are useful for trying to measure energy use in the data... [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]
HMRC's missing discs: Just a warning shot
Comment The HMRC case tells us the law's focus on geographical considerations - Europe adequately protects data but other regions do not - and its promotion of contractual solutions, such as consent to processing being a criterion for legitimacy, cannot... [27 Nov 2007]
On-demand software can help banks avoid fines
Comment Falling costs for bandwidth and improved software delivery models have provided the general spur for growth of SaaS but there had been little evidence this type of service was adopted for compliance solutions. [01 Nov 2007]
Q&A: Ashley Highfield, head of BBC's Future Media and Technology unit
Comment I don't have a particular philosophy of manufacturers or solutions. In the space of maybe two to five years we could see these solutions maybe replace the necessity for restrictive DRM. Until we've got hold of the software and had conversations... [30 Oct 2007]
John Chambers
AS Profile Unlike his software counterpart, Bill Gates, Chambers still plays a steering role in developing the company, championing the internal Internet Solutions Group to the rest of the world. The software and hosted service allows for on-demand... [12 Oct 2007]
Leader: ERP consolidation matters
Leader He said: "If companies in large number support and value those [SaaS] software solutions they're going to want them supported and opt to have a third-party option. The TomorrowNow CEO answered a range of questions - though questions about the... [30 May 2007]
Brampton Factor: Ageism myths
Comment And the solutions require the overcoming of deep-rooted ideals. Perhaps the opposite, as solutions to problems often come to people when they are relaxing, thinking about other matters entirely. The pace and extent of innovation in data... [22 May 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment With this, all kinds of solutions - high availability, disaster recovery, consolidated back-up - become possible and enable the next generation computing environment: the optimised data centre. Desktop virtualisation, allowing multiple OSes and... [15 May 2007]
Do you know what's happening on your network?
Comment On the security front, Greg Day, technical solutions architect at McAfee, said threats posed to networks from the outside world have certainly changed. Anaman said: "There's certainly a great concern that a lot of unauthorised pieces of software... [28 Mar 2007]
Go real-time with your data
Comment Today the traditional reporting approach of using Olap (on line analytical processing) solutions is being superseded by in-memory data management which promises to take BI to the next level. The area of in-memory analysis is one of the most... [15 Mar 2007]
Link up all parts of your business
Comment Unfortunately these sorts of 'point solutions' create departmental silos making it very difficult to share information across the company. More recently vendors of software for smaller companies have also woken up to this trend. [14 Mar 2007]
Mobile workforces - how to keep them productive
Comment Patchy coverage, hardware or software that is prone to frequent failure, or solutions simply not specifically designed for mobile use will frustrate employees, sapping the efforts of even those who want to be productive. [19 Feb 2007]
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