systems critical mission in comment and analysis
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment Large mission-critical systems are, I'm sure, very reliable but the interface at the consumer level has become visibly onerous, unreliable and complex with intrusive and quirky digital... [17 Jul 2008]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile Doran's key priority is defining and building the strategic IT direction for Network Rail as well as delivering the technology - infrastructure and applications - that support its mission-critical... [11 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... HMRC search costs, Vista SP1 moans and fingerprints for visas…
Comment Does anyone have Vista on 'mission critical systems'? No one should be installing/testing/running beta releases on any critical system. What's got silicon.com readers... [17 Jan 2008]
Who pays your broadband bill?
Comment Are these appropriate network conditions for those employees working from home who have to conduct confidential business or who use mission-critical processes? Now not only have computers evolved from... [21 Aug 2007]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile Among Doran's key priorities are defining the strategic IT direction of Network Rail and delivering the infrastructure and applications that support mission-critical engineering and rail operations. The... [06 Jun 2007]
Analysis: Dell and SAP - what's the attraction?
Comment SAP doesn't break down its software by the hardware on which it runs - that can be a tricky business, on several levels - but it is indisputable that more often than not SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other applications are... [04 May 2004]
The Director’s Cut: 10 smart ways to make an IT department an asset - not a cost
Comment Your mission is their mission Also, install the latest customer prediction management systems, enabling you to predict what your customers will do next. Making this change in perception... [29 Jan 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Where am I coming from?
Comment However, our species is on a journey on Spaceship Earth with a mission to go explore, discover and change at a pace faster than our gene-based evolution would naturally dictate. We have engineered our infrastructures and... [11 Jul 2002]
Those were the days: Remembering the ZX Spectrum
Comment In fact, tales of home computers powering some near-mission critical systems around the world always crop up - some we always assume are urban myths. Ever since we decided to take a trip... [17 Jan 2002]
Make up your mind! IT on the Board or not?
Comment Of course, chief executives may honestly believe it when they tell market researchers and fellow board members that IT is mission-critical. Not a single 'will our systems work with... [23 May 2001]
Storage: A year in review
Comment Research by Highground showed that up to 45 per cent of data stored by businesses was duplicated, unused or spent on non mission-critical data like personal files. The funding was ploughed into... [19 Dec 2000]
Linux standing on the shoulders of giants
Comment Enthusiasts who have no business or mission-critical solutions use it. While admitting the current version of Linux doesn't scale well - without clustering - beyond four processor... [25 Aug 2000]
History repeating: love spreads around
Comment As companies grow more and more dependent on computing systems to carry their corporate data, it seems virus attacks on this scale will cause more damage to mission-critical operations.... [05 May 2000]
Linux Special: A penguin on every desktop?
Comment Many thought that using Linux to run mission-critical applications is risky: if things go wrong, who do you call? However, a quarter of respondents to our survey still think Linux is not ready to be... [19 May 1999]
Beyond the firewall
Comment Businesses now need to share mission-critical information with partners around the world. Lior Arussy, Hewlett-Packard's VP of security, claims modern business trends like outsourcing and extranets mean... [14 May 1999]
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