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Why you must rein in your power users
Comment The Payment Card Industries Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), which any business taking credit or debit card payments should adhere to, recommends "auditing all privileged user activity" as well as avoiding the use of... [25 Nov 2009]
Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment John Tuccillo, chairman of the board for The Green Grid, a confederation of end-user and vendor organisations focusing on energy efficiency, believes companies have begun to realise that virtualisation isn't the panacea... [20 Nov 2009]
Unified comms: What it needs to succeed
Comment That's critical and it has to be done in as vendor-neutral a way as possible," says Bamforth. Unified comms holds plenty of promise but businesses hoping to use it must first consider why uptake has been so slow, says... [17 Nov 2009]
Mind the details with Windows 7
Comment Once I realised I had a problem, my hasty attempt to fix the problem (again ignoring a warning message posted by the graphics card vendor), just dug the hole deeper. Gartner's Stephen Kleynhans has been happy with his... [23 Oct 2009]
Microsoft is learning to share - but not soon enough?
Comment But it remains to be seen whether any vendor can deliver the sort of sophisticated collaboration tools that some businesses urgently need today. Perhaps collaboration with Jive or a similar vendor is the... [20 Oct 2009]
Outsourcing - how to make sure it's reliable
Comment The trend towards multi-vendor systems puts even more emphasis upon effective interoperability - the extent to which individual systems work consistently as a whole. William Benn offers advice on how to make sure you can... [19 Oct 2009]
Larry Ellison
AS Profile One Agenda Setters panellist said: "Ellison's vacuum cleaner approach to vendor acquisition is setting so many agendas for other vendors, while making every enterprise either a current or soon-to-be Oracle customer. [29 Sep 2009]
Cloud vendor shakeup on the horizon
Comment The cloud applications space is on the verge of major change. Gartner's Eric Knipp tells you what to expect. According to my strategy professor Gordon Walker: "The trigger point [for shakeout to begin] is when one or more firms achieve a... [01 Sep 2009]
Cloud computing a buzzing in business ears
Comment Here's a good one, put out recently by a technology service vendor. Organisations can create a private cloud within their datacentres, a public cloud through secure [vendor]-managed cloud solutions, or a... [20 Aug 2009]
IT essential for businesses' green success
Comment When you do buy new kit, keep the environmental credentials of the vendor in mind because the creation of hardware can use up a lot of resources such as CO2, energy, water or various chemicals. David Tebbutt offers... [19 Aug 2009]
How to keep staff happy during the downturn
Comment The recession has us thinking about cutting budgets, revising project portfolios and renegotiating vendor contracts. In tough economic times, businesses must do more with fewer people. Stuart Roberts offers some advice... [10 Aug 2009]
Naked CIO: We need an offshoring tax
Comment This should be a part of vendor selection and a criteria for whether you choose a supplier. Offshoring is here to stay - but the government could help make sure it doesn't destroy British tech. The Naked CIO explains how. [20 Jul 2009]
Phil Pavitt
CIO Profile Pavitt is involved in reducing TfL's software estate to seven core applications and going through vendor agreements with due diligence. Phil Pavitt has been appointed the next CIO of HM Revenue and Customs, one of the... [03 Jun 2009]
Telepresence - time to work together
Comment Such sentiments are to be found regardless of which vendor is asked the question. Those users who made the wrong bet hopefully find themselves supported by the winning vendor, with a relatively smooth... [06 May 2009]
Why you should hack your own systems
Comment In its latest Security Threat Report, security vendor Symantec saw a 66 per cent increase in computers that have been identified as hosting one or more phishing websites, probably owing to increased use of automated... [22 Apr 2009]
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