Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
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Moore's Law is anti-sustainability
- Managing Editor 03 Nov 2021 -
COP26: IT's role in tackling climate change
- Managing Editor 25 Oct 2021 -
What is the real role of Windows 11?
- Managing Editor 29 Sep 2021
The tech sector is laser-focused on driving upgrades. For decades the sector has rewarded shareholders with high growth, thanks to the prophecy that every 18 months to two years, computing doubles ...
Far from being a clean sector, IT is an immense consumer of natural resources and electricity. The majority of the world’s semiconductors are manufactured in Taiwanese fabrication plants (fabs), ...
In the context of Windows 11, the question is not necessarily whether it is better or worse than Windows 10 or whether it is worth upgrading. It’s about how useful it is. “What is the role of a ...
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Please protect us from our own stupidity
- Managing Editor 22 Sep 2021 -
Law enforcement: Question the tech sector's motives
- Managing Editor 08 Sep 2021 -
Windows 11: A booster jab for the PC industry?
- Managing Editor 01 Sep 2021 -
The logic of software defined
- Managing Editor 03 Aug 2021 -
The Workday/Amazon saga raises serious questions on HCM
- Managing Editor 29 Jul 2021 -
Moving beyond Freedom Day has IT implications
- Managing Editor 20 Jul 2021 -
A PC in the cloud
- Managing Editor 15 Jul 2021
It seems like the simplest thing. Compose an email message and then CC colleagues. But,due to a Ministry of Defence blunder, this simple action, built into pretty much every piece of email client ...
Perhaps there are application areas where law enforcement technology should not be used, one of the witnesses at a recent Justice and Home Affairs Committee meeting warned. Experts from the US, New ...
Looking cynically at the fact that Windows 11 will be available as a free upgrade from October 5, the timing of the new operating system release coincides with the need for the PC industry to ...
A recent conversation with Microsoft revealed a number of questions about where desktop IT could be heading. Logically, it makes sense for Microsoft to use the power of its public cloud to stream ...
It is too early to say definitively why Amazon decided to stop using Workday, but it is a topic worth a closer look. In 2017 Amazon began to deploy Workday Human Capital Management (HCM). Workday ...
Even though the Delta variant continues to rise in the UK, the Government has stuck to its plans to remove Covid-19 restrictions. In effect, it has passed on responsibility for keeping people safe ...
It was going to happen sooner or later. While many regarded Chromebooks as devices merely fit for less intensive computing tasks, they have shown Microsoft and the PC industry a different approach ...
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Windows 11: Do we need another operating system
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Mobile operating systems: It's not about VHS versus Betamax
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Do the right thing
- Managing Editor 03 Jun 2021 -
An opportunity to redesign computer architectures
- Managing Editor 01 Jun 2021 -
Data's role in economic recovery
- Managing Editor 19 May 2021
One can see the reason why Microsoft saw a need to update Windows 10. Apple has been updating MacOS and has now moved its hardware away from the Intel x86 processor family to focus on its M1 ...
In the 1970s two rival video tape formats battled out for the hearts and minds of consumers. Movies were distributed on either VHS or Betamax. Eventually, VHS won. But today who uses video tapes? ...
A recent study has put a spotlight on a worrying trend in software development. Open source project maintainers are not being paid for their work. Or, if they do get paid, on average, they can ...
Over the last 70 years business computers have evolved a standard model of computing based around a central processing unit (CPU), main memory (RAM) and data storage. In effect, data is fetched ...
The economy is slowly opening up. Red is red. Green is green and as for amber...that’s red, at least as far as the latest government travel guidance is concerned. Data is going to be absolutely ...