scale in this environment in comment and analysis
Opinion: UK needs cybercrime strategy
Comment As explained to me recently, the banks are now increasingly worried by the scale of losses they are now experiencing. How could they possibly manage a large scale rejection of virtual banking, if the... [13 Jan 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: RFID - what can it do for the business?
Comment At a simple level it might be the location for tracking, for example on the large scale the shipments of goods around the planet or on a small scale the precise location of valuable artefacts... [16 Mar 2006]
EasyJet online, Transmeta and OpenSource
Comment As it aims to move to 64-bit processing, Intel is also hoping to take a significant slice of the large scale Unix market, especially through its alliance with HP. The company will no doubt argue that insiders wanted to... [14 May 2001]
Q&A: BT CTO Matt Bross
Comment There are examples of this but not at this scale. The Welsh Development Agency and the ecosystem they have developed make it somewhere that trials of this... [22 Sep 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Simplify the basics
Comment The problem is that the exception is now the rule and any broad-scale change requires armies of technical staff on hand just to deal with these 'exceptions'. And it's got more difficult for us to understand... [11 Feb 2005]
What's the fuss about... disaster tolerance?
Comment Quocirca has a 10-level disaster scale, and provides advice on the minimum levels of solutions that should be implemented to provide tolerance. Failure of a physical environment, e.g.through fire or... [30 Aug 2002]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white
Comment But many eventually turn to outside specialists with managed print services because of the scale, complexity and escalating costs of printing. Often organisations initially assess their print environment... [22 Apr 2008]
The Bloor Perspective: Touchy-feely PCs, HP and, like, storage man, and Citrix's big idea
Comment At the same time the HP Surestore Tape Library 10/100 can scale from 3.2Tb to 10Tb and supports several tape formats. On the hardware side HP's announcement concentrated on its Surestore 181GB small footprint disk drive... [17 Sep 2001]
Devil's Advocate: Regulating the environment
Comment He knew, of course, that most production was at a much less homely scale. The global environment is under threat from global warming. Unfortunately, one of the casualties of all this is... [09 Sep 2003]
Superstar professor - the future of e-learning?
Comment Are we saying we should be able to scale up to become ubiquitous? For example, it has only been in the recent past that many governments have stopped fully funding students' tertiary educations and... [09 May 2001]
Devil's Advocate: Should we lock up virus writers?
Comment We need to be thinking a great deal more seriously about the kinds of network that will work successfully on a global scale. Moreover, we live in an environment that is ambivalent about... [02 Nov 2004]
Devil's Advocate: ID cards - another reason to protest
Comment The history of government IT projects of this scale makes cost overrun a near certainty. Great classical composers would have had a hard time in this... [29 Nov 2005]
The week Microsoft gives us Windows XP
Comment Microsoft has some serious court cases looming over its head, ranging from a patent dispute with Intertrust to a full-scale EU investigation into its alleged anti-competitive practices. IT directors are - wisely -... [19 Oct 2001]
IT spend: Every silver lining has a cloud...
Comment Little large-scale capital expenditure is planned, so few mega 'rip and replace' contracts are on the horizon. The general economy is far from settled, and in such an environment we're... [08 Jan 2003]
CRM: Hosted vs packaged - which to choose?
Comment A hosted solution offers them clarity in costs through subscription and the ability to scale so that they can grow their business while keeping the same platform. While hosted CRM service providers offer... [02 May 2006]
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