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SAP SaaS delay - no surprise

News SAP's decision to delay the rollout for its Business ByDesign on-demand software should comes as no surprise but could prove a boon for software as a service vendors according to analysts. He said: "I think their lack of experience with on-demand...

Tags: delay, erp, on demand, saas

[01 May 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News Cicconi added that more demand for high-definition (HD) video will put increasing strain on the internet infrastructure. The US telecoms giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the internet's current network architecture will reach the...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

Wanted: Women must save IT industry

News You're not alone…   Health warning to overweight IT managers   Demand for tech workers hits six-year high   How the staffing crisis is deepening   How techie salaries are faring   Is the...

Tags: skills gap, women, skills

[15 Apr 2008]

Tech-savvy workers to make IT decisions in future

News You're not alone…   Health warning to overweight IT managers   Demand for tech workers hits six-year high   How the staffing crisis is deepening   How techie salaries are faring   Is the...

Tags: it, laptop, internet, smart phones

[14 Apr 2008]

'Dull' jobs cuts as companies turn to the cloud

News You're not alone…   Health warning to overweight IT managers   Demand for tech workers hits six-year high   How the staffing crisis is deepening   How techie salaries are faring   Is the...

Tags: jobs, it, cloud

[08 Apr 2008]

Steve Jobs slams Flash - opens door to Silverlight?

News Consumers demand a rich web experience on any device and platform and Flash delivers just that," the company said. With more than 450 million Flash-enabled mobile devices shipped worldwide and 150 per cent year-over-year growth, we are on track to...

Tags: flash, steve jobs, iphone, silverlight

[06 Mar 2008]

Why must IT go green?

Comment Many UK and EU regulations and campaigns demand greener businesses: the ethical disposal of equipment under the WEEE directive, transparency on companies' carbon footprint, and ultimately a cap-and-trade system for carbon credits set to be...

Tags: green, management, data centres, efficiency

[03 Dec 2007]

Gartner: CIOs - develop business analytics or IT loses out

News Blosch expects some CFOs will use the outsourcing and offshoring phenomenon to demand IT budgets remain flat, or even be reduced in the coming years. Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking on the links below…

Tags: cio, budget, it, business processes

[21 Nov 2007]

Dear silicon.com... work and play, mobiles on planes, data leaks...

Comment Terms like "plug and play", "pay as you go" and "on demand" exist in our society because, as consumers, we demand more of the technology that surrounds us. I'd stake my life on that fact that this sort of tech will be more widespread in the future...

Tags: skills, vista, mobile

[25 Oct 2007]

Q&A: Teradata CEO Mike Koehler

News If there was demand, we'd react to the market. Metro, the German retailer and Teradata customer, is well-known for its RFID trials - how will RFID, especially when it goes down to the item level, impact on your business?

Tags: datawarehousing, rfid, storage, teradata

[22 Oct 2007]

The greening of IT: Why less is more

Comment There are many initiatives and technologies that will help reduce energy demand within the data centre. Last year Greenpeace rated the major PC manufacturers on how well they dealt with harmful chemicals integral to the production of their laptops...

Tags: pc makers, greenpeace, data centres, green it

[13 Aug 2007]

Smart metering to shrink carbon footprints

News We can get an efficient energy market by making the meter smart.so that we can on an hourly or on a per-second basis match supply and demand. Speaking to silicon.com at a recent press briefing last month, he said: "We have a big debate about...

Tags: energy saving, power, energy, smart metering

[06 Aug 2007]

Skills shortage hits Indian CIOs

News As businesses demand more from their IT departments, Indian CIOs need to increasingly offshore IT roles to manage the skills shortage, according to Gartner. Indian CIOs must consider offshoring as the country is hit by an IT skills shortage.

Tags: offshore, india

[11 Jun 2007]

Fighting against the data deluge

News Supermarket chain Waitrose is using SAS technology to improve its forecasting so it can better predict demand for products. He said this saves the company millions per year in training and recruiting costs - for example by keeping staff turnover at...

Tags: business intelligence, retail

[24 May 2007]

Terabyte storage heading for consumer market

News Tucci admitted EMC is looking at the possibility of bringing out consumer products to meet that demand. IDC and EMC are predicting a 60 per cent compound annual growth rate in digital information to £988m by 2010, and that massive growth in data...

Tags: terabyte, storage, emc

[22 May 2007]

India - the inside track on outsourcing

News Straight afterwards came the dot-com boom which fuelled another leap in demand for software talent. It's easy to be blinded by a blizzard of statistics when discussing a country so massive but the success of the industry is still pretty clear-cut.

Tags: india

[05 Mar 2007]

'Emerging markets will split mobile'

News In countries like India, that's not necessarily the case - where operators are spectrum constrained, there probably will be demand for WiMax. The head of Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has predicted there will be more than five billion mobile phone...

Tags: india, china), russia, bric (brazil

[15 Feb 2007]

US servers guzzle more power than Mississippi

News Server power demand has moved high up customer priority lists - especially with rising power costs and overstuffed data centres - and hardware makers are responding. Based on the number of servers IDC forecasts to ship, the world's server power...

Tags: power consumption, energy, power

[15 Feb 2007]

Apple, Napster and Google sued over video

News Apple, Google and Napster have all been named in a video on demand (VoD) patent infringement suit - by a company that stopped offering such services several years ago. Company founder Jonathan Taplin told The New York Times: "Intertainer was the...

Tags: napster, video, video on demand, google

[04 Jan 2007]

SAP eyes 'third way' for software - using SOA like a gearbox

News Software isn't a straight choice between packaged and on-demand - at least that's according to SAP, the giant software vendor which has recently been saying how it will use service-oriented architecture (or, to use the buzzy acronym, SOA) to...

Tags: mysap, soa, sap

[28 Sep 2006]

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