Martin Banks on IT-Analysis.com

Contact management for all

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100

The ease of setup and deployment, coupled to low Capex and Opex requirements, that are the stock in trade of the SaaS delivery model, making it possible for many services to be brought before a far... [Read More...]

Cutting into mainframe Opex

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Saving anything on operational expenses is one of the constant concerns of CIOs and IT managers, particularly when the level of business is under the cosh from a tough economic environment. The... [Read More...]

Service versus technology - the Intralinks example

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:00:00 +0100

In a service delivery-based world, technology - cool or otherwise - becomes less relevant. Working out what constitutes a service from the users' perspective is what matters now for service providers. [Read More...]

Wholesale datacentres will bring greater service granularity

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +0100

By concentrating on providing datacentre facilities and facilities management, e-Shelter will serve not only global corporate needs but, through intermediaries, the smallest service providers. [Read More...]

HDS looks to Cloud Economics

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:00:00 +0100

As Cloud technologies start to take a back seat, attention is shifting to the need to redefine service levels in terms of business values that help users understand the real economics of the Cloud. [Read More...]

Planning for Transformational Change

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Change is now an integral component of everyday business. There are tools to help and approaches such as CMMI to use as metrics of change. But planning for it, and the possible upheaval, brings its own problems. [Read More...]

Intel's Parallel Studio - tools to parallelise Microsoft

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:00:00 +0100

As parallel computing moves mainstream it meets Microsoft head-on, and Intel is first to have Visual Studio-compatible development tools to parallelise both new and existing Microsoft applications. [Read More...]

Intel's Parallel Studio Helps Link Microsoft to a parallel future

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:00:00 +0100

Is the need to accommodate legacy Windows applications liable to hold back the development of parallel processing, or an inevitable stepping stone? [Read More...]

SaaS - in the unlikely event of failure...

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:55:00 +0100

Conservative business models can still yield failed companies, so what steps can you take before if a SaaS vendor fails? [Read More...]

The Exostructure makes disaster recovery a by-product service

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Till recently, disaster recovery strategies were expensive to implement and intrusive to operations. Many companies avoided them and prayed. The Exostructure could help answer those prayers. [Read More...]

Fujitsu-Siemens lauds hypervisor agnosticism

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:00:00 +0100

The hypervisor agnosticism of the newly introduced FlexFrame for SAP shows why some virtualisation standardisation is necessary [Read More...]

VMware aims to bridge the internal:external divide

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:00:00 +0100

The distinctions between internal and external IT resources may still be real for many companies, but VMware is pitching to make them disappear. [Read More...]

Beating the fears about the Cloud

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:00:00 +0100

User psychological fears will need to be beaten if the exostructure of the Cloud is to really succeed [Read More...]

The Information Exostructure

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:00:00 +0100

What's in a name? Sometimes it's the difference between 'sounding cool' and actually meaning something. [Read More...]

When 'scanner' becomes an inadequate product category

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:00:00 +0100

The PhotoScribe PS960 from DRS is not just a 'soup-to-nuts' data capture scanner, it is the cornerstone of a complete real-time data capture environment. [Read More...]

Industrializing software opens new possibilities

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Fujitsu-Siemens' FlexFrame could be the model for a new way of building applications and services. [Read More...]

This Cloud has a silver lining

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0100

Clouds may be hard to see through, but jumping into it may be the way for both users and vendors to see their way clear of the recession [Read More...]

Psychology of data ownership may be changing at last

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:00:00 +0100

Owning data is getting less important than knowing it is secure and well-managed, making remote services a more attractive and cost-effective option. [Read More...]

Staff issue gives CICS closer web connection

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:00:00 +0100

As staff with old CICS skills retire, the new skills can help link it more tightly to Web 2.0 [Read More...]

Fujitsu-Siemens makes infrastructure more flexible

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:00:00 +0100

The dividing line of infrastructure responsibility between vendor and customer is difficult to fix, so why bother? Instead work with making it as flexible and dynamic as possible. [Read More...]

NetSuite OneWorld takes financial consolidation from stale snapshot to slo-mo real-time replay

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Wed, 21 May 2008 07:00:00 +0100

A new SaaS service brings the ability to have real-time consolidation of global financial results, with full drill down, rather than a just a snapshot' of a past moment in time. [Read More...]

The high security hosting bunker

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:05:00 +0100

Centrinet's Smartbunker hosts high security, zero-carbon data centre services [Read More...]

NetSuite's new O/S aimed straight at Partners

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:00:00 +0100

NetSuite's expanded development platform NS-BOS should fit SI and ISV Partners well. [Read More...]

IBM aims at next data centre abstraction level

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:00:00 +0100

The New Enterprise Datacenter brings the new z/10 mainframe centre-stage to create the enterprise ensemble [Read More...]

Be green - throttle bloatware

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

The current concentration on hardware improvements is only half the green battle, not the whole war. [Read More...]

The Web + mainframe + Itanium = Very Interesting

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Mainframe systems and applications could prove key to expanding transaction-based services via the web, and could provide a boost for Intel's Itanium processor as well. [Read More...]

SaaS, Brand Mastery and Collective Capitalism

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:00:00 +0100

SaaS offers traditional - and new - channel partners the potential to become brand masters in their field and the market front for the biggest vendors, creating a new economic approach: Collective Capitalism. [Read More...]

Events move in favour of Blade Servers

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:00:00 +0100

It's not just the technology that makes Blades increasingly interesting to users. [Read More...]

A future for mainframes in SOA

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:00:00 +0100

New tools like DataDirect's Shadow V7 can revitalise the role of the mainframe [Read More...]

HP looking to build on Mercury's SaaS offerings in IT management

rss@it-analysis.com (Martin Banks, Bloor Research) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Software as a Service is now a major delivery option for CIOs in managing infrastructure and the delivery of business services. [Read More...]