Cruising through my feeds today, I came across an article in UTalkMarketing. Not normally something that would result in a post here, but this time it is. It was one of those how to guides – “How to survive the credit crunch” – the interesting thing is that 4 of the 5 points are technology [...]

Some thoughts for you, from watching Cisco’s TechwiseTV today: ”Energy Efficiency in the Data Center“. The IT industry is getting hot on environmental issues, and rightly so. Vendors and customers alike were impacted by regulations such as RoHS and WEE. These deal with the cradle and the grave of IT kit. Now the spotlight is on the [...]

I’ve been mulling this for a few days and decided that enough mulling is enough! Think of this as part I, and I’ll come back to the topic… Mobile Workers An increasing percentage of the business workforce have escaped the office. In the early 90′s remote working just meant having a desktop PC at home, [...]

Before I ask the question, let me answer it: ‘yes, but it depends’. There you go, one sentence and you are totally clued in – rush out and share your new found expertise with whomever you meet. Ok, may be I should wind back a bit. In the 90′s, IT departments installed LAN servers by the [...]

Cloud Computing holds the potential to transform business IT, or at least the ownership of the infrastructure. The last CloudCamp was a must-attend event for anyone in the Cloud Computing world (write up at Redcatco: “Living in the cloud computing“). For compute-intensive applications, Amazon, Google and others are making a scale of infrastructure available that most businesses would [...]