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The state of play at CA

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Infrastructure management vendor CA hosts the analyst community in Ottawa to take a look at the state of play in 2009. Challenges remain for CA in a tough economy, however some bright opportunities exist as the vendor focuses on strengths. [Read More...]

Mainframe management gets its swagger.

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:00:00 +0100

CA's Mainframe 2.0 initiative seeks to solve the problem of an ageing expert workforce that is soon to retire, whilst cutting costs associated with managing the platform. A recent update on CA's efforts finds some good progress. [Read More...]

CSC - Cloud Strategy Coming

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:26:14 +0100

CSC this week hosted their EMEA Industry Analyst summit; Innoventure, in Paris. It was never quite explained what exactly an innoventure was but it sounds like a cross between innovation and... [Read More...]

The opportunities and risks of telehealth in the NHS

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:24:51 +0100

Though their lineage dates back to before World War II, ATMs in their modern form appeared widely on the high street in 1973. Since then they have bred like rabbits and spawned numerous cousins in... [Read More...]

Governing the greening process

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:00:00 +0100

We will almost certainly see an increasing adoption of formulaic and structured approaches to green governance, providing an opportunity for governance process management software platform vendors. [Read More...]

Awash in ICT talent

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:56:32 +0100

BT announced this month that the company intends to cull their workforce to the tune of 15,000 workers, with CEO Ian Livingston citing an unacceptable performance in BT Global Services... [Read More...]

What appetite for climate change legislation?

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:01:18 +0100

If you are one of the 205,964 or so readers of The Independent then you may have noticed that BT has been going to great lengths to communicate a wide ranging message on all things sustainability,... [Read More...]

VMware's ambitious virtualisation vision raises some real questions

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:00:00 +0100

VMware professes a rich vision for cloud computing, seeing itself as the chief software infrastructure provider for cloud computing, & also as the catalyst for a rich partner ecosystem. Can the vendor successfully deliver their game... [Read More...]

Who says employees want to pay for their own hardware?

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:40:14 +0100

Quocirca recently spent some days in Cannes, courtesy of VMware. The virtualisation infrastructure vendor hosted VMworld Europe 2009 in the town and talked up a perfect storm regarding... [Read More...]

On the drive to efficiency, it's important to look in the rear-view mirror

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:00:00 +0100

The promised land is only there if we bear in mind the issues we have had to face in what we have gone through beforehand [Read More...]

CA looks inward for green

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:05:00 +0100

Software vendor CA is amongst those which have more recently found their inner verdancy. The NYC headquartered software vendor hopes to brings its expertise in IT and enterprise governance to the world of sustainability. [Read More...]

Attempting to measure sustainability

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Measuring and reporting on the progress of a business's sustainability strategy is made more complex due tot he fact that underlying many such strategies are a wide range of only loosely related motivations. [Read More...]

Putting IT centre stage in the green debate

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:15:33 +0100

Quocirca dropped by last week's Green IT event to wander the various vendor stalls and listen in on the clever, the confident, the clumsy, and the borderline confused that make up the mixed bag... [Read More...]

IT's emissions footprint is a matter of where you draw the line

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

The decision to outsource is the single biggest factor related to the level of emissions a business must report. [Read More...]

CSOs need to watch the meter.

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Electricity meters have so far been innocuous devices and certainly not ones that any Chief Security Officer would have given more than a moment's thought to. However as these devices become smarter they become a potential attack targets. [Read More...]

IT professionals are looking for green leadership

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:02:57 +0100

In an increasing number of conversations Quocirca has with technology professionals it is becoming clearer that more and more people fundamentally get the problem of climate change. This is true for... [Read More...]

Report Card: HP's Mainframe Alternative Programme

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:00:00 +0100

A review of HP's Mainframe Alternative Programme, based on the vendor's September EMEA Analyst Update session. Is it all that it seems to be? [Read More...]

How open is "open"?

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:52:53 +0100

If you were asked to open the window there would be little confusion in the request. Similarly a request to shut the window would normally be interpreted to mean that you... [Read More...]

Emissions Auditing

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Planning to reduce IT's or a business's overall carbon emissions begins with an emissions audit. Emissions auditing will drive significant technology innovation, investment and M&A activity over the next five years. [Read More...]

Sustained Disruption

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Efforts toward sustainability will have a dramatic affect on business operations and thus supporting technologies. Are we at the beginning of the next wave of small vendor innovation and subsequent market M&A in the sector? [Read More...]

Transmitting power wirelessly from Colorado Springs to San Francisco

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Perry, Quocirca) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:26:07 +0100

By all accounts, it was a thoroughly exciting demonstration - the lighting of an incandescent bulb from distance with the power being supplied wirelessly. Even from this relatively modest first... [Read More...]