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Fuelling the Engine: The Importance of Business Intelligence and Performance Management to the Mid-Market
July 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Across the mid-market, inefficiencies are compounded by the lack of visibility into pertinent data, of processes being adequately and flexibly automated, and for the performance of the business to...
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Body Shop to Mind Shop: Businesses Look for More From Third Party Consultants
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As budgets tighten, it is even more important for a company's IT function to demonstrate its fit with the business and obtain the best value from all resources and services at its disposal. Simply...
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Managed Hosting in Europe: A Review of the Managed Hosting Market and Suppliers in Europe
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The term "Managed Hosting" describes the provision of a ready to use IT stack including hardware and infrastructure software for the deployment of applications. Providers house the infrastructure...
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The Evolution of Strong Authentication
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Strong authentication technologies have long been used for providing an extra layer of assurance that an individual accessing computing resources is who they say they are. However, the cost of...
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Managed Print Services in European and US Enterprises
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Quocirca's latest research reveals that around 12% of European and US enterprises have already successfully adopted managed print services (MPS), or are considering doing so. The key drivers for...
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Mobile Application Momentum
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
With the seemingly un-wavering boom in sales of smart mobile handsets, the opportunity for developing and selling mobile applications more sophisticated than ringtones and games is ever more...
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Managing Carbon Reduction Across Your Data Centre Assets
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Many organisations will find that they fall under the UK's new Carbon Reduction Commitment legislation (now known as the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme). With IT constituting a large part of many...
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Customers in the Real World - The Story of Things-4-You: Reaping the Benefits of IP Geolocation
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As more and more human activity moves online, it is easy to think that geography no longer matters - surely the internet is without borders? Whilst in some cases this is true, more often than not...
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Uncovering the Enterprise Output Management Opportunity
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The printing environment represents a huge cost drain for many enterprises, and many are now turning to Managed Print Services (MPS) to reduce complexity, to lower costs - both financial and...
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Privileged User Management
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
IT managers everywhere feel overwhelmed with the rising tide of security threats they have to deal with in the face of an increasing regulatory burden. It is not surprising then that they tend to...
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"Digital Britain" - Opportunities and Risks for UK Businesses
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Digital Britain is the UK government's strategic vision for the UK digital economy. While social inclusion and rights protection are major themes, the plans will also have a significant impact on...
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Telecoms Reinvention - Optimising the Online Customer Experience
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
As networks, devices and media converge, telecoms companies have increasingly complex catalogues of products and services on offer to customers who are, in turn, becoming more aware that they can...
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Enterprise Performance Management Cycle II
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In February 2009, Quocirca interviewed 800 individuals across 8 geographies for their views on, and usage of, Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) tools and processes. The research was repeated...
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Telecoms Companies' Re-Invention - From Voice to e-Service Provision
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In a shrinking world where individuals have more choices in almost every aspect of their lives than ever before, and more ways to communicate with each other and the world at large, the bonds and...
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Turning Customer Interaction Into Profitable Relationships
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Effective customer communication boosts customer loyalty, ensures brand and regulatory compliance, reduces environmental impact and helps control a range of costs such as reductions in IT...
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Keeping Online Orders Flowing: Web-Based Retail Application Delivery Control
March 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses how online retailers can better prepare their applications to meet increasing, but often irregular, demand. It aimed at those tasked with managing online retail applications...
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Mobile Expense Management - Taking the Big Picture View
May 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the rising costs of mobile phone expenses for organizations, especially when faced with high usage while roaming. This problem is complex, especially for organizations that...
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Keeping Mobile Data Flowing: Mobile Data Application Delivery Control
February 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses how Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) can prepare their networks for what is likely to be a continually growing demand for mobile data access. It is directed at those managing...
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You Sent What?: Linking Identity and Data Loss Prevention to Avoid Damage to Brand, Reputation and Competitiveness
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The report, "You Sent What?: Linking Identity and Data Loss Prevention to Avoid Damage to Brand, Reputation and Competitiveness," examines the issue of organizational data governance through the...
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Utilising SOA in Defence Logistics
April 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the distinct and complex challenges that are presented by the logistics function within the defense arena, and aims to show that these can be mitigated through the adoption of...
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Be Prepared to Be Flexible
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Communications needs for many organisations are changing rapidly. Internally, there are always new technologies appearing and changes in working styles to deal with but there is now, increasingly,...
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Building a Case for Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The data centre is a major cost base for the majority of organisations, and requires constant changes to be implemented alongside the installation of new hardware and software. Much of this...
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Cloud Computing - Taking IT to Task
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Much of the discussion around modern IT still revolves around purely technical aspects of a given platform, leaving many business people in the dark as to what true value of a new technical...
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A Gift From IT to the Business - Spend Visibility; Using an On-Demand Service to Deliver Rapid Business Value
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
IT managers that fail to embrace on-demand services will hold back the organisation they are supposed to be supporting. Such services can save costs within IT, as well as provide new capabilities...
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Telecoms Re-Invention - Death of the Traditional Telco
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The communications provider landscape is evolving as the demand for data - in fixed locations and on the move - outstrips the still growing demand for voice communications. New entrants from the...
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Channels To Managed Print Services In Europe
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
With the growth of enterprise managed print services (MPS) and especially with the more recent expansion of services and solutions that target midmarket companies, the questions still remain: are...
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Valuable Business Connections
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The average small business is becoming highly dependent on multiple forms of digital communications, but the technology choices are increasingly complex and come at a cost. With this backdrop, how...
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Tackling Printing Costs In Midmarket Businesses
March 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Midmarket organizations face the same challenges as their enterprise counterparts in reducing the complexity and cost of maintaining their print infrastructure. While many large enterprises have...
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It#$#s Not Academic: Dealing With Expenses in Education
September 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Universities and other higher education establishments increasingly have to address the need for savings across the board. One area of focus has to be expenses from faculty members and others...
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The Total MSP: Why Providers of IT Services Should Embrace End Point Management
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The management of IT assets now comprises two distinct areas; data centres and end points. Comprehensive management and protection of information can only be achieved when both are under control....
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CRN - Unified Comms - On Demand Opportunities Offer Green Shoots - March 2009
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Many resellers will be finding it hard to motivate their customers to make new investments as the economy collapses. However, any purchase that helps them reduce business costs should at least get...
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Storage Strategies - Keeping It Simple
January 27, 2011, 12:00am PST
There is a perception that storage is now relatively simple. Although data volumes are rising rapidly, hardware costs continue to tumble, and any problem can be solved by just throwing more disks...
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Cloud - Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
January 27, 2011, 12:00am PST
Probably heard of cloud by now - maybe even had a little play with bits of it through things like Google Docs or even something a little meatier such as salesforce.com. But where is cloud going,...
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Fibre Rates - Is It Time to Repeal the 21st Century Window Tax?
January 19, 2011, 12:00am PST
Why would anyone tax windows? Well it seemed like a good idea to some in late 17th century England and in both 18th century Scotland and France, as it was thought to be less intrusive than income...
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ITAnalysis - Unified Communications and Social Networking, Match Made in Heaven or Just Good Friends?
December 16, 2010, 12:00am PST
The term 'Unified communications' conjures up many meanings, but is most often used by those with software or network assets to sell. Whether it is routers, switches, hubs, directories, phones or...
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ComputerWeekly - The Realities of Cloud Formation
June 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Salesforce.com's recent announcement of its VMforce platform for deploying Java applications is the latest in a long line of announcements from a wide range of vendors of such on-demand (Or cloud...
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Quocirca Printer Pulse
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Signs of a rebound in printer sales were evident from HP's Q2 2010 results which saw its imaging and printing business revenue grow by 8% year-on-year to $6.4 billion. Total printer unit shipments...
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Straight Talking - 6 Things CIOs Must Consider Before Moving to the Cloud
August 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing has been hailed as the cure for all IT ills. Fortunately, a measure of reality is now returning to people's view of the technology and the business value it can provide....
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IT Analysis - Printing - The Achilles Heel of the iPad for Business?
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
With iPad sales already outpacing sales of Macs in the US, taking just 28 days to shift a million units, it's fair to say that the consumer popularity of the iPad promises to match that of the...
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ITAnalysis - Apple iPad for Enterprise?
February 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
At one time, the only enterprise users of Apple products would have pony tails or job titles with the word 'creative' somewhere. That's no longer the case. The mainstay business tools that reside...
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Community, Connection, Conversation or Channel
November 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Social media, social networking or the social web, along with companies that deliver all things 'Social', are dominating discussions about the internet, advertising and communication in business...
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Powering the Data Centre
December 23, 2011, 12:00am PST
The growth in the importance of data centres around the world in supporting the global economy means that there is increasing focus on how well data centres are performing in themselves. The poor...
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The Mobile Print Enterprise
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The consumerisaton of IT, due in part to 'Bring your own devices' initiatives, is accelerating the adoption of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices in the workplace. Today's dynamic and...
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Next Generation Datacenters Index - Cycle II
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
This second cycle of the Next Generation Datacenter (NGD) research shows that there has been modest progress in how organisations are preparing for changes in how ITC is used to support their...
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Dealing With Not For Profit Expenses
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Not For Profit (NFP) organisations have a core responsibility to ensure that as much of their income is spent on the target of their organisation. As such, salaries and other direct costs have to...
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Carrying The Can: The Corporate-Liable Versus Employee-Liable Balancing Act For Mobile
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
There is an increasing trend among employees to want to use their personal choice of mobile device in the fulfillment of their work commitments. While this appears to bring many benefits for the...
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Next Generation Datacentres Index - Cycle I - Cloud Findings
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing is all the rage - it seems that every vendor now has a cloud offering, that every service provider has "Cloudified" its platform and that end users are well on the way to fully...
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The IT Profit Centre: Delivering Measurable Value to the Business Through Better IT Management
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The day-to-day job of fixing recurring problems with all the network end-points that constitute a business's IT infrastructure, whether they are in the data centre, the office or out in the field,...
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A Value Proposition for IT Security: Justifying the Investment in the Components of a Compliance Oriented Architecture
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
IT departments are facing three big issues when it comes to protecting the data created and stored on the systems they manage. First, the value of the data is often only realised when it is...
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Managed Print Services Come Of Age
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
No longer languishing on the side-lines, Managed Print Services (MPS) is now fundamental to the service fortunes of the major printer and copier vendors. In a mature and relatively flat hardware...
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Running A Technology Platform For The Business
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
IT is moving from being a point of differentiation for an organization towards becoming a point of constraint. Old-style approaches to computing, looking at particular applications for specific...
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ITAnalysis - More Waves Breaking for Mobile Email?
August 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
After so many years of growth in the business use of mobile email through the addictive and apparently ubiquitous BlackBerry, one might have thought the whole issue of the mobile email market...
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SNIA - Content Security in the Age of Mass Storage - Feb 2009
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
To outsiders, the world of IT storage can sound a bit dull. However, if they stopped to consider the innovations that have occurred in storage during the last decade they should not fail to be...
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Straight Talking - The Dawn of Unified Communications - March 2009
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
As politicians quibble about whether a recession is turning into a depression, businesses are more focused on the bottom line. For IT departments this means two things: cutting their own costs and...
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IT Analysis - Channels to MPS Success
August 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Printer and MultiFunction (MFP) market is characterised by falling prices and shrinking margins. In this increasingly commoditised market, selling services is the key to capturing new revenue...
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ITAnalysis - Fixed Mobile Unified Communications (FMUC) - Business Benefit or Telecoms Nerdvana?
August 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As Mobile World Congress 09 becomes a hazy memory for the mobile industry, Unified Communications09, with its sidekick VoIP for Business, came into focus this week, but thus far 'Mobile' and...
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Straight Talking - Green IT Isn't Dead Yet..
September 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The 'Green' hype seems so last year. Today's poor market conditions have refocused business minds on survival, rather than ensuring organisations have a solid environmental plan. Despite this,...
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Data Architectures and Security Issues
January 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
The biggest problem for many organisations is in layering the needs of one set of regulations against the needs of another - without breaking the previous one. At a legal level, it is hard enough,...
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Straight Talking - Plenty of Life Ahead for RFID and NFC
December 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
RFID and its close cousin Near Field Communications (NFC) have both been touted for great and sexy futuristic applications. These range from the tagging and tracking of all consumer goods to the...
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IT Analysis - HP Rides Perfect Storm and Closes Gap on Xerox With MPS Initiatives
September 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
HP's recent announcements bolstering its Managed Print Services (MPS) credentials come at a time when market maturity, a steep decline in hardware and consumables revenues and diminishing margins...
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Straight Talking - Data Centres: The Temples of IT - Sept 2009
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The awesome scale of today's data centres can only be appreciated by touring them. Their huge halls house rack upon rack of equipment and feature seemingly endless corridors, spotless cleanliness,...
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Straight Talking - The Perfect Device for the Developing World Is Not a PC
September 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As a person inhabiting what is commonly called a developed country, the author is used to computers being a central part of the life. However, for less well-developed countries, the idea that the...
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Straight Talking - Hands on With Windows 7
August 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Windows 7 became available for IT professionals subscribing to Technet for IT pros on Thursday 6th August, and (For a change); it looked like Microsoft had sized its servers enough so that people...
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CRN - Big Sales to Smaller Businesses - Aug 7th 2009
August 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) turn to VARs to help them implement the IT applications on which their businesses depend. Year on year, this becomes more onerous because these...
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ITAnalysis - Mainframe Management Gets Its Swagger
August 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Back in the old days kids followed in the footsteps of their parents and their parent's parents. A proud tradition of craftsmanship, skills and knowledge continuing across the generations -...
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Straight Talking - How to Secure Your On-the-Go Data
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
According to the FBI, two million laptops were stolen in the US alone in 2007 - equivalent to one loss every 15 seconds. Research from data clearing house Data Loss DB shows that, of data breaches...
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Computer Weekly - Multi-Videoconferencing for the Many
July 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Travel budgets are being squeezed - gone are the days of leaping on the nearest plane and flying first class to have a 2 hour meeting on the other side of the pond. However, top-end...
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Preventing Data Loss - What's Needed? the Search for Standards
November 23, 2009, 12:00am PST
The UK's MPs may rue the day a disk listing details of their expenses was leaked to the Daily Telegraph from the House of Commons Fees Office earlier this year, but they were going to be made...
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Keeping Track of Web Site Visitors With IP Geolocation - Dec 2009
January 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
Has anyone ever wondered why, when one visits some web sites; they seem to magically know something about where one actually is? This is achieved using IP geolocation services. The one thing that...
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The Value of 2-Tier ERP for Small and Large Businesses - May 2010
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
ERP is one of those categories where getting an accurate picture of market share is not that easy. The reason for this is twofold. First it depends on the size of companies; SAP and its closest...
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Straight Talking - PCI-DSS: Why Compliance With This Card Security Standard Adds Up
May 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is now more or less mandatory for any organisation handling payment card data. It is hard to be categorical about compliance because the...
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IT Analysis - Securing the Physical Link
August 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
There is no shortage of government activity in the area of cybersecurity. In the US, President Obama has ordered a review to be completed, leading to the provision of US$335 million of public...
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ETM - Business Intelligence: When Will Business See the Need?
April 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Business Intelligence (BI) has been the focus for many technology vendors over the past year or so - to the point where it has possibly been overblown and overhyped. With the number of pure-play...
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360°IT - Green Data Centres - More Than Hot Air
June 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Although the green issue isn't a top priority for many organisations at the moment, it's likely to return to prominence as governments attempt to meet self-imposed carbon reduction targets. With...
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ITAnalysis - Apple iPad for Enterprise?
February 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
At one time, the only enterprise users of Apple products would have pony tails or job titles with the word 'creative' somewhere. That's no longer the case. The mainstay business tools that reside...
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IT Analysis - Printing - The Achilles Heel of the iPad for Business?
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
With iPad sales already outpacing sales of Macs in the US, taking just 28 days to shift a million units, it's fair to say that the consumer popularity of the iPad promises to match that of the...
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Straight Talking - 6 Things CIOs Must Consider Before Moving to the Cloud
August 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing has been hailed as the cure for all IT ills. Fortunately, a measure of reality is now returning to people's view of the technology and the business value it can provide....
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Quocirca Printer Pulse
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Signs of a rebound in printer sales were evident from HP's Q2 2010 results which saw its imaging and printing business revenue grow by 8% year-on-year to $6.4 billion. Total printer unit shipments...
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ComputerWeekly - The Realities of Cloud Formation
June 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Salesforce.com's recent announcement of its VMforce platform for deploying Java applications is the latest in a long line of announcements from a wide range of vendors of such on-demand (Or cloud...
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ITAnalysis - Unified Communications and Social Networking, Match Made in Heaven or Just Good Friends?
December 16, 2010, 12:00am PST
The term 'Unified communications' conjures up many meanings, but is most often used by those with software or network assets to sell. Whether it is routers, switches, hubs, directories, phones or...
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