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Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment The current penchant for invoking green IT whenever data centre power consumption is mentioned may suit the goals of IT vendors with new power efficient kit to sell; but it does little to help address the bigger picture. [17 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: silicon.com - what a difference a decade makes
Comment Some mention old technology favourites: "Vendors stay faithful to Windows 95" and "User forum warns users to prepare for NT 5". silicon.com is 10 years old this week, which prompted me to take a look through the archives and find out what was big a... [11 Jul 2008]
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 service that is often... [07 Jul 2008]
Off the peg or tailor made?
Comment Perhaps the big vendors see this too? While at the other end would be those suppliers - such as traditional ERP vendors - offering contractually bespoke, complex, proprietary systems carefully aligned to the business and, of course, sold and... [16 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: The V-word
Comment Most CIOs are plagued by unwanted overtures from vendors. In a previous company I had a specific mailbox that I directed all vendors to. We need vendors. The amount of time I can spare for vendors depends on my focus and workload - and on whether... [09 Jun 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Licensed to bill
Comment This all seems part of a wider pattern, where the publicity machines of the likes of the Federation Against Software Theft (Fast) pump out comments that suggest the civilised world is about to end unless ever more draconian legislation is passed... [07 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security
Comment Before spam became a big problem, there were still specialist email security vendors like Clearswift and Marshal Software that checked outgoing email to ensure it complied with internal rules on content distribution and decency. [02 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white
Comment These groups typically operate independently, resulting in organisations owning a range of printing devices from multiple vendors with incompatible software, consumables and supplies. Who controls printing and imaging? [22 Apr 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 vendors to make their code... [18 Apr 2008]
Vendors hype up compliance fears
Comment It's the interest of some vendors to put the fear of God into people," she says, pointing out that the legislative framework in the UK is relatively sparse when it comes to prescribing specific information security measures. [08 Apr 2008]
How to detect data leaks
Comment To help companies stem this flow of confidential information outside their direct control, security vendors have developed a family of tools called data leakage prevention (DLP). Data leaks are a growing problem. [19 Mar 2008]
The Naked CIO: Identity crisis
Comment Yet today I freely exposed my own personal information about 10 times to various vendors and agencies without a single thought about whether they would protect my identity. They always want to ensure our vendors comply with the highest standard... [25 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.02.08
Round-Up In a deafening cacophony of ringtones that could be heard from outer space (and underwater), handset vendors, mobile operators, developers and journalists descended on Barcelona for a state of the nation address this week at the Mobile World... [15 Feb 2008]
Systems management hits impasse
Comment Research shows that the legacy of fragmentation at the systems management level is almost universal and consistent, not just for those that spread their investments across numerous different IT vendors. [13 Feb 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Sunday
Comment This year's crop of contenders for your eyeballs includes more than a handful of femtocell vendors, plus makers of blogging tools, video apps, audio 'solutions', cameraphone tools, multimedia management apps, iPhone-inspired touchscreen... [10 Feb 2008]
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