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When business data goes walkabout
Patrolling an effective security regime is never a trivial task, despite the relentless development of[...]
Calling all resellers, distributors and integrators. Are IT vendors helping out in this difficult economic climate?
It’s been tough these last few years. The economy has been stagnant, inflation’s been going[...]
Metadata: the Jumbo Data problem?
A chance conversation about Big Data led me to think about the importance of metadata[...]
Beyond the relational database – Help us make sense of ’Big Data’
As many marketeers switch their attention from the word ’cloud’ to the term ’big data’,[...]
Is Financial services IT in a mess?
Whether it’s insurance or banking, those working in financial services keep coming in for a[...]
Spreading iTunes beyond Apple equipment
This is a story of my experiences of using non-Apple equipment to expand my use[...]
Happy 100th birthday IBM
A couple of months ago, I picked up a tweet on Twitter that said something[...]
Is IT really broken?
A quick sanity check I have just been reading a blog post from a vendor[...]
When information sharing goes wrong
One of the most troubling phone calls I have ever received was from the irate[...]
Help! I’m in an abusive relationship with my supplier
In a previous article we highlighted the various ways in which sales and service functions[...]
Better trading practices
It’s 2011, the age of high-speed electronic communications, and we still see companies faxing orders[...]
Nailing the question of SaaS security
This article is hosted on an external website. Please click here to view it in[...]
Mobile data: There’s no quick fix for network issues, so do your homework
Smartphones have become increasingly smart, providing access to multimedia content and social networking sites. On[...]
Want to bring your own PC?
There’s a problem brewing in the workplace – employees want to bring to work aspects[...]
The great cloud joke
Once upon a time, in the cloud kingdom of Cloudalon, there lived a cloud king.[...]
CIOs – it’s time to bill the business for using IT
In the present climate, the pressure is on IT to demonstrate it is delivering value[...]
Raw iron or dynamic data centre. Where have you got to?
We hear a lot about the self-service data centre, where everything is highly automated and[...]
The pain and promise of x86 servers
Advances in x86 server technology have been relentless. Year-on-year improvements in price-performance and advances in[...]
Should your data centre look more like Google’s?
With all the talk of cloud, some are predicting the death of the enterprise data[...]
Monitoring for security effectiveness
In the last of this mini-poll series, we wanted to find out whether the security[...]
Calling data center professionals everywhere
How does the world look to you? We want to draw a picture of the[...]
Communications breakdown – Managing UC risks
Communications mechanisms in the workplace – from mobile devices to instant messaging and web conferencing[...]
The basics of app management
IT may be complex, but from the perspective of the business, it is just a[...]
Identity management is a pain in the backside
Identity management in the corporate environment is complex – not to mention, at the coalface,[...]