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.
When presenting on how to build a modern data centre, I generally
point to the fact that a data centre should be built for the
machines, not for the humans, and an air temperature of around
26–27 degrees C is fine for most...
Any business likes to claim to be number one at something; the
biggest pet-shop in town, the largest office productivity
application provider globally, the only telco that provides both
mobile and broadband in your area.
To this end...
Quocirca has completed the second cycle of research and analysis
for Oracle around enterprise performance management (EPM), and
the headline results show a massive improvement across the six
sub-indices and the overall EPM index. Surely,...
A recent article in the Economist, titled Breaking up saturated mobile
networks, underlined the problems mobile network operators
(MNO) face as demand for data access surges.
The article is empathetic with a recent Quocirca report...
Up front, I apologise. I am about to write a couple of words that
are likely to make the general readers eyes glaze over. Bear with
me and I hope that the end result is a bit more interesting than
the topic itself may at first appear....
With its recent launch of a Mobile Manifesto and a Mobile Green Manifesto, the
GSMA has
attempted to underline what it believes are key deliverable
objectives that the mobile industry can contribute to the
'outside world'.
There is...
At Lotusphere this year, there was little in the way of rip-roaring, rousing announcements that could knock the socks off someone who was sitting there wondering what Lotus would do for their business. For the techies making up the vast majority of...
For some time now, those organisations deemed to fit into the high energy intensive space, such as mining and refining, have had to adhere to laws around setting and achieving energy usage targets. As of 1 April 2010, however, less energy intensive...
The recent theft of emails from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (UEA CRU) has proved embarrassing, but the incident does not change any of the facts regarding global warming. New Scientist (9th Dec 2009) summaries it...
Will 2010 be the year that platform-as-a-service (PaaS) comes of age? Amazon's Web Services (AWS) keep cropping up in conversations Quocirca has with independent software vendors (ISV); Salesforce.com's force.com platform is attracting more and more...
Dana Gardner Principal Analyst Interarbor Solutions
