clivelongbottom, Author at TechRepublic

clivelongbottom

Bio

Clive Longbottom is the founder of user-facing analyst house Quocirca. As an industry analyst, his primary coverage area is business process facilitation.

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Banking

EMC is changing – but will its customers get the message?

EMC's acquisitions and ambitions in information management are turning it into more than a storage vendor. The big question is how far its customers understand that change.

It's when disposing of hardware that a managed approach to the IT lifecycle can produce the biggest savings. Photo: Shutterstock

CXO

Hardware hassles? Time to make it someone else’s headache

Too many organisations give little thought to the lifecycle of hardware - from acquisition through deployment to disposal. That lack of management may be costing them more than they realise.

CXO

What can IT do to bridge the chasm with the business?

The steps that can bring inhouse IT back in from the cold...

Data Centers

Can you get the measure of the strange, virtual world of datacentre scale-out and scale-up?

Server vendors are changing the way they look at datacentre resources...

Social enterprise

Don’t turn off Twitter and Facebook during unrest – turn them back on the rioters

Social media is no threat to the nation's fabric...

Developer

What datacentre managers really think about cloud

Cloud research: Is the outlook bright or murky?

CXO

How an entity engine can power business needs

Entity model can help resolve complex systems and inaccessible data...

Data Centers

Six things CIOs must consider before moving to the cloud

Don't board the cloud computing bandwagon before addressing these issues

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