In this interview Adrian Davey, head of IT at Tubelines, speaks to Cliff Saran about how Tube Lines has made the most from the company's Microsoft Enterprise Agreement.
Stories in this week's podcast round-up, presented by Warwick Ashford, include a report from executive editor Tony Collins that the UK government is planning a 'green' strategy for the public sector.
Expectations for change are high, and ICT services need to be extremely quick off the mark to meet them. We need to be able to mix and match services, in real time, to serve up the right resources in all the right places, at the right time, in this dynamic and volatile business environment.
In this podcast Cliff Saran speaks to Mark Ridley, head of technology at online recruiter Reed.co.uk, about his assessment. Also this week, Nick McGrath, director of platform strategy at Microsoft UK, reveals whether Microsoft still thinks Linux and open source software is a threat to its Windows Server family.
In the past applications were run on their own dedicated server hardware. More applications meant more servers. Virtualisation reduces server sprawl, as IT departments can consolidate several applications on a singe box.