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The Naked CIO: Service level disagreements
Comment The difficulty with this type of agreement is getting external vendors to agree to risk elements that are hardly ever covered by their business model and the complexity of identifying multiple degrees and indicators of... [07 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.04.08
Round-Up Cross, whose surname - as serendipity would have it - matches the mood of the users of the product he implemented, added that "annoying users" had been part of a deliberate strategy to try and force independent software... [18 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: Identity crisis
Comment They always want to ensure our vendors comply with the highest standard while bullying them to accept a much lower standard for our treatment of their information. Yet... [25 Feb 2008]
How to stop "runaway" ERP projects
Comment Lawson isn't a familiar brand in the corporate IT world, especially in the UK and Europe, but the company is one of the ERP vendors behind the big two of Oracle and SAP and it competes with the likes of... [01 Oct 2007]
The Brampton Factor: Microsoft vs EU
Comment It takes a lot of very careful marshalling of evidence and a struggle to convince sceptical PC vendors that you are entitled to a refund. What has happened is no more... [18 Sep 2007]
Far from quiet on the virtual front
Comment The market for smaller companies is a good place to be and somewhere many of the larger IT vendors are struggling to enter. Couple that with Microsoft's impending Viridian release, as well as its... [05 Sep 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
Comment There is competition for resources and competition for vendors. Earlier this year the company announced plans to save billions of dollars through an IT overhaul that includes closing half of its 42 data centres by the... [19 Jun 2007]
Data centre in a box
Comment The payload does not have to be Sun hardware - there is nothing to stop you filling the racks with gear from competing vendors as long as it fits within the 200 kilowatts power and cooling limit of the box. [18 Jun 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
CIO Analysis There is competition for resources and competition for vendors. Earlier this year the company announced plans to save billions of dollars through an IT overhaul that includes closing half of its 42 data centres by the... [06 Jun 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Itanium - what's in a name?
Comment Some believe any company that hitches its wagon to the Itanium star is doomed to failure, however the recently formed Itanium Solutions Alliance (comprising Bull, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hitachi, HP, NEC, Silicon Graphics and Unisys,... [06 Nov 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Are you a windscreen or a fly?
Comment The decline of proprietary protocols from the big hardware vendors and the rise of IP means centralised resources can be accessed anywhere - remote branches, home offices or even on the move. Sharing part of... [11 Aug 2006]
Beating software piracy is easier than you think
Comment These complex legal entitlements vary between software vendors and can include a variety of exceptions and upgrade clauses. Many companies have fallen into this trap under pressure from software... [21 Jun 2006]
Leader: Why mobile TV is important
Leader These are important for equipment vendors - people like Nokia in the case of the first example (DVB-H), Qualcomm in the place of the second (MediaFLO) - and also operators and TV broadcasters. BT supports DAB-IP and... [05 Jun 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Marrying IT security and insurance
Comment Some vendors see the sense in providing complete peace of mind to users wanting protected systems. IT security vendors play on this concern. If more security vendors and insurance... [14 Dec 2005]
VoIP handsets: Greater choice means greater complexity
Comment New vendors such as Zultys and Snom have joined the market previously dominated by decades-old players such as Alcatel, Nortel and Siemens. For example, Cisco phones can work with IP-compliant PBXes but its PBXes won't... [01 Aug 2005]
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