Looking under the covers, taking the smoke and mirrors away from vendors' stories, questioning the topics de jour - here, Quocirca's analysts provide their views on the business and technology world and what is of importance to you and your businesses in the real world.
There continues to be much coverage in the press about the impact IT is having on the environment through increasing power consumption. As well as berating IT departments for the poor running of data centres and deploying devices inefficiently in...
Those like me who are bit long in the tooth may remember Relational Technology (RTI), the original developers of the Ingres relational database management system (RDBMS) that ultimately lost out to Oracle in the RDBMS wars of the early 1990s....
The term ‘testing’ is something we might have mixed views on. It's something that software developers should have as an integral part of any software project—continually during the project to try to iron out bugs early, and then at...
Cisco's announcement today that it is to buy WebEx underlines the continued ascendancy of two things—online collaboration and software as a service (SaaS). The purchase makes sense as an extension to Cisco's existing collaborative...
History is littered with projects that were lampooned during their execution but later delivered assets that came to be valued and cherished. The early history of the Sydney Opera House was fraught with disputes between architects, builders and the...
“A million here, a million there, pretty soon we'll be talking real money”, a comment that might typically overheard in one of the City's merchant banker watering holes, will not sound very comforting to Nationwide, the UK's largest...
Some time back (well, a couple of years, actually), I wrote an article on IBM Lotus' product, Workplace, a communication and collaboration environment written as a set of services accessed via a version of IBM WebSphere Portal shipped with the...
I recently came across an interesting UK start-up called M5 Data which designs, develops and manufactures tape libraries at its Wells, Somerset headquarters for the mid range near-line storage market, where density, scalability and cost...
It sounds such an appealing term, ‘convergence’, conjuring up an image of things neatly slotting together. There is some indication of it in the worlds of IT and telecommunications, as proprietary forms of communication and...
Have you ever been on one of those time management type courses
where the statistics for time wasted searching for things are
quoted? For example, 2 weeks of your life per year looking for
misplaced files/items. I think of it every time I am...
Simon Holloway Practice Leader - Process Management & RFID Bloor Research
Philip Howard Research Director - Data Management Bloor Research
Peter Abrahams Practice Leader - Accessibility and Usability Bloor Research
