Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Recent Posts
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There is nothing new in IT
- Managing Editor 13 Sep 2019 -
Gigging for robots
- Managing Editor 23 Aug 2019 -
IBM floats another cloud strategy
- Managing Editor 15 Aug 2019
Once a new technology becomes mainstream the industry needs to find a new thing to sell its customers. It’s been this way since the time IBM provided big metal boxes with integrated software and ...
A few months ago Automation Anywhere began collaborating with freelance software developer recruitment platform, Toptal, on robotic process automation in the human workforce. The concept is called ...
Gartner's latest magic quadrant report on cloud infrastructure puts IBM in the bottom left quadrant, as a niche player, alongside Oracle and Alibaba. IBM is hoping the £34bn it has spent on buying ...
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Use Windows 7 end of support to reboot desktop IT
- Managing Editor 29 Jul 2019 -
Apollo 11: The human factor in autonomous systems
- Managing Editor 15 Jul 2019 -
How to be an IT rock star
- Managing Editor 09 Jul 2019 -
Why database admins should embrace automation
- Managing Editor 25 Jun 2019 -
Why Tech should lead, when governments lag
- Managing Editor 10 Jun 2019 -
Take flawless IT project execution with a pinch of salt
- Managing Editor 03 Jun 2019 -
How racist bias is embedded in software systems
- Managing Editor 20 May 2019
What does a modern desktop look like? For the last few decades since the desktop PC established its place in offices, the role of desktop IT has been to provide end-users with access to corporate ...
“Once you put someone in orbit, it is a lot harder to fix it if something goes wrong,” says Paul Kostek, a senior Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) member and senior systems ...
The recent spate of band reunions and Glastonbury illustrates the longevity of rock music. But the software industry seems to be stuck on finding the next big thing. Who would ever describe Windows ...
There are certain functions in database administration, that are good candidates for automation. These are the nuts and bolts of the job - like how to partition the storage, what happens if a disk ...
Last week shares in the tech giants plummeted following reports that US regulators from the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission were looking at investigating their business. On the ...
The recent story reported in Computer Weekly about Revlon’s SAP woes, illustrates the importance of tech due diligence. Its CTO, Chau Banks, who previously worked as CIO at New York & Company, ...
The issue of racist bias encoded in software made mainstream news last week, with a report on Channel Four news highlighting how software for profiling criminal suspects, tend to have racial ...
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VDI reimagined
- Managing Editor 09 May 2019 -
Banking and finance bigwigs yank climate change chord
- Managing Editor 18 Apr 2019 -
Single source ERP fails to match business needs
- Managing Editor 15 Apr 2019 -
Why are we serving up chips?
- Managing Editor 05 Apr 2019 -
Complexities of safety critical augmented systems
- Managing Editor 29 Mar 2019
A demo at this week’s .Next conference in Anaheim gave a snapshot of how far modern VDI has come. Virtual desktops should not be considered just as an option for users who only require low ...
It has been a week of activism and a call for action, with the Extinction Rebellion, causing major disruptions in London. But alongside grass roots demonstrations, there appears to be a greater ...
There was a time when the major ERP providers were considered allies of the CIO. They were trusted advisors. From an IT decision-maker perspective, ERP software aimed to encapsulate best-in-class ...
Custom hardware is usually the only option available to organisations that need to achieve the ultimate level of performance for AI applications. But Nvidia has taken massive strides in flipping ...
There are no lessons that can be gleaned from the tragic loss of life following the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash on March 10, 2019. As has been reported across the web, the crash bears ...