Robin Bloor on IT-Analysis.com

The Abuse of IT Resources

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:00:00 +0100

Do you know whether any abuse of IT resources is happening in your company? If you aren't monitoring the network and Internet activity of users... then it probably is! [Read More...]

The Future of Email

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 06:00:00 +0100

Right now email is more of a problem than a solution and most email implementations are woefully short of functionality. The strategic issues of email are calling out to be dealt with. [Read More...]

2005 Predictions: Mid Term Review - Part 3

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 06:00:00 +0100

Robin Bloor reviews the progress of one more of the technology predictions he made in January this year: Power to the PowerPC Chip. Plus he adds two new trend predictions on: Event Stream Processing (ESP); and SOA & Web Service. [Read More...]

2005 Predictions: Mid Term Review - Part 2

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:00:00 +0100

In this second of a series of articles, Robin Bloor reviews the progress of 3 more of the technology predictions he made in January this year: Power to the PowerPC Chip; The Linux PC and The Linux DeskTop; Open Source in the Database... [Read More...]

2005 Predictions: Mid Term Review - Part 1

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:00:00 +0100

At the beginning of the year Robin Bloor published a set of technology predictions for 2005. In the first of a series of articles, Robin reviews progress on: Linux Server Growth, Utility Computing and IT Security. [Read More...]

Apple Ascending

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 06:00:00 +0100

Technically, it was Napster that invented the digital distribution of music and Kazaa that later dominated it. Neither of these companies enabled a commercial market for digital music, they just created a popular mechanism for copyright... [Read More...]

Is Firefox already the dominant browser?

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 06:00:00 +0100

Go to boingboing.net and take a look at the monthly stats. When I last looked they showed 38% of visitors to the BoingBoing web site were Firefox users, 34.9% Internet Explorer users and 10% Safari users. So is this telling us that Firefox... [Read More...]

Moore's Law: Turning A Corner

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:00:00 +0100

Four decades on — is the end of the road now in sight? [Read More...]

The Evolution of the Data Center

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:00:00 +0100

The past, the present and the future...? [Read More...]

Information LifeCycle Management: The Storage Story

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 06:00:00 +0100

Storing data intelligently has suddenly become a major imperative for companies. How you handle replication and redundancy is becoming a critical factor. Information Lifecycle Management has become one of the focuses of the IT industry... [Read More...]

Samba, Soccer and Open Source

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 06:00:00 +0100

Since the election of President Luiz In�cio Lula da Silva, Brazil has gradually become a beachhead for Open Source, and consequently a thorn in Microsoft's side. [Read More...]

Open Source: Revenge of the Nerds

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:00:00 +0100

You may remember the early exuberating days of the PC in the corporation, when computer users at last had their own computing resource. In the main, it was very positive for corporate productivity as the corporate computer user was blessed... [Read More...]

Is Apple About To Become An Industry Giant?

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 07:00:00 +0100

Apple is beginning to look like it is going to fulfil its commercial potential. All the signs are there. Apple clearly intends to play in the mass PC market and it now has the foundation and a product with which to do that. [Read More...]

SCO and The Titanic

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:00:00 +0100

What's the difference between Edward John Smith, the Captain of the Titanic and Darl McBride, CEO and President of SCO. Well, for one thing, Captain Smith didn't steer his doomed ship towards the iceberg, he hit it by accident. [Read More...]

HP — Quo Vadis?

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:00:00 +0100

The swift exit of HP's CEO, Carly Fiorina, has not been much mourned in the business press. Carly never brought the success that shareholders were hoping for and she had clearly run out of time. [Read More...]

Eyeballs and Downloads: D�j� Vu All Over Again

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 07:00:00 +0100

I am being repeatedly informed of Open Source products which are clearly destined for success because they have achieved x million downloads. [Read More...]

South America Goes Open Source

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 07:00:00 +0100

The trend to Open Source in South America seems to be stronger than it is anywhere else. Almost all governments there seem to be setting an Open Source agenda. [Read More...]

Sun Throws Solaris Into The Open Source Pool. Will It Swim?

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:00:00 +0100

Sun has been mumbling about it for months now, but this week it finally offered Solaris to the Open Source community — Open Solaris to be precise. [Read More...]

Open Source Database — Will Proprietary Databases Survive?

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:10:00 +0100

The Open Source database market appears to be getting crowded. This is a new phenomenon for Open Source. Usually there is only one product in play from the Open Source community. [Read More...]

Microsoft XP Service Pack 2 Woes

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:00:00 +0100

I tried to do so a week or two ago and, well, it never worked. The upgrade crashed the PC and there was nothing to do but uninstall what was partially installed. [Read More...]

The Government Open Source Dynamic

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 07:10:00 +0100

The news just broke that the Venezuelan government is planning to migrate to Open Source, having issued a decree to central government organizations to draft plans for migration. [Read More...]

2004 - The Year of the Phish

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 08:00:00 +0100

If anything dominated the IT headlines it was IT security or the lack of it. Before we dive into the coming year, here�s a quick roundup of the year gone by. [Read More...]

Ready, Aim, FireFox

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:00:00 +0100

Mozilla FireFox, the Open Source browser, was officially released at the beginning of November. Unusually for an Open Source product there was also an advertising campaign which included - believe it or not - a two page advert in The New... [Read More...]

Open Source — The Maturity Factor

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:10:00 +0100

Perhaps the major theme that came through from the Bloor Research Open Source Event last week was the maturity factor that accompanies the Open Source proposition. Here's a summary of some of the points that emerged. [Read More...]

IBM, Moore's Law and the Power5 chip

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Fri, 26 Nov 2004 07:00:00 +0100

In the TPC-C benchmark, IBM demonstrated over 3 million transactions per minute (tpmC) almost three times more than the previous highest result of 1.2 tpmC, posting a 37 percent price performance advantage in the process. [Read More...]

Softricity and VMware: The Desktop On Demand

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 07:00:00 +0100

VMware, as you probably know, provides a virtual machine capability on Intel hardware, making it possible to make far more efficient use of server resources than if you just deploying the vanilla operating systems (whether Windows or... [Read More...]

A Different More Responsive Microsoft?

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:00:00 +0100

The news came through a few days ago that Microsoft had finally settled its outstanding legal dispute with Novell at a cost of $536 million. Novell's shares responded by leaping 9 percent and Microsoft's shares lost a few cents. [Read More...]

For A Very Large Database, Try CA-Datacom or Daytona

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 07:00:00 +0100

Given that the DBMS vendors vie furiously with each other to convince customers of the scalability of their database products, one would think that any examination of a list of the largest databases in the world would be topped by... [Read More...]

Holographs And The Birth of a New Industry

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:00:00 +0100

You've probably not heard of Zebra Imaging. It is a relatively recent start-up, based in Austin Texas, which leads the world in the practical application of holography. [Read More...]

Positive Moves For Open Source

Robin Bloor, Bloor Research — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:00:00 +0100

A recent news release from Excedent, the parent company of Webmail.us, informs us that Webmail.us is migrating away from Microsoft to open-source. The company provides a hosted email service with virus filtering and spam blocking, for the... [Read More...]