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Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Unravelling the hype behind IT for creating useful CIO strategies.
Recent Posts
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CIOs need to nurture raw IT talent to power the future economy
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Blame the Poisson
- Managing Editor 25 Jun 2014 -
Web-scale IT shows what technology can achieve
- Managing Editor 20 May 2014
Each year, with the publication of A-level results, hundreds of thousands of school leavers embark on a journey that ultimately fuels the talent pool feeding the UK economy. Some argue that a ...
I recently met Mark Rodbert, CEO of Idax Software, who has an interesting theory on statistics. We often see the 'Normal' bell-shaped distribution - where the top of the bell represents the most ...
English: A Netflix envelope picture taken by BlueMint. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Looking at web companies such as Amazon, eBay, Facebook or NetFlix, it is hard not to be impressed by the scale of ...
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Big data technology has its work cut out to harness web analytics
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Will Microsoft pursue a single Windows kernel?
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Windows 8.1: Start failure
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Ubuntu Edge sells out
- Managing Editor 24 Jul 2013 -
Get into Linux in under an hour on a Raspberry Pi
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Video interview: Kim Stevenson, CIO Intel on BYOD
- Managing Editor 29 May 2013 -
Tackling the Big Blue software licensing challenge
- Managing Editor 08 Apr 2013
English: eBay Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)What can we learn from companies such as eBay and Amazon? These internet businesses are at the cutting edge of technology.The recent Gartner CRM summit ...
During the Build developer's conference in April, Microsoft is expected to reveal more details of a future version of Windows codenamed Threshold.Rumours on the web suggest that Threshold could ...
It has been a while since my last post. Today I spent the last few hours updating Windows 8 and I thought I'd share my experiences.Window 8.1 is the free update to Windows 8, which supposedly fixes ...
Earlier this week Ubuntu's CEO, mark Shuttleworth unveiled a crowdfunding model to get people to buy into his concept of a converged PC/smartphone device.The appeal hit its first million within ...
Raspberry Pi (Photo credit: CesarCardoso)It's been a while since I raved about losing a weekend getting to grips with Linux on a home project to build a music server.It took a weekend to get the ...
I recently spoke to Kim Stevenson, CIO at Intel. When she started in IT, people used to try to issue one device per employee. She says Intel has been running BYOD for three years. "People like ...
In this guest post Martin Prendergast, CEO and co-founder, Concorde Solutions and board Member, Cloud Industry Forum, writes about issues to consider when licensing IBM software.Enterprise software ...
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Five facts on Dell (Denali)
- Managing Editor 05 Apr 2013 -
Recovering and deleting data from SSDs
- Managing Editor 20 Mar 2013 -
Oracle should heed warnings from the trends in enterprise
- Managing Editor 15 Feb 2013 -
Virtual Modelling: A new IT optimisation tool
- Managing Editor 21 Jan 2013 -
Software licence audits: Confidence in Your Choices
- Managing Editor 17 Jan 2013
Denali is the holding company through which Michael Dell hopes to reinvent Dell. A US securities and exchange filing at the end of March shows the company will actively move away from the PC and ...
The latest generation of laptops and hybrid devices use solid state disks to boost performance and speed up the time it takes for the operating system to boot. In this guest blog post, Robert ...
The findings from Forrester's latest research on Oracle point to a worrying trend in the enterprise software landscape. Businesses are not generally doing large, transformational IT projects built ...
Can a trial and error approach to project work in project management? Robert Saxby, a consulting director at business technology consultancy ImprovIT, explains how it can.
Over the last few weeks Computer Weekly has written about software licensing and how suppliers are demanding IT departments run costly software audits. At the same time, we have started looking at ...