Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

June 2007

• Microsoft's second class support for virtualisation

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 29 Jun 2007

Microsoft must support third-party virtualisation. For a virtual server to be treated the same way as physical hardware, it needs to be certified, just as Dell, IBM and HP machines are certified ...

• iPhoney

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 28 Jun 2007

So Apple's iPhone is coming out on Friday. The bad news is that hackers are primed and ready to start attacking the new device...at least accoridng to McAfee.

• Virtualisation licence - Big Deal

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 27 Jun 2007

Some user may not wish to deal with the complexity of Oracle's licensing. To simplify matters, Oracle offers a site licence. Great for Oracle...not so great for CIOs and IT directors

• Licensing must support virtualisation

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 26 Jun 2007

Oracle and IBM looks like they are jumping on the virtualisation bandwagon and making a stack of money out of it

• Virtualisation is cheap - you're kidding

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 25 Jun 2007

I raised the question about virtualisation in production a few daya ago because I've been researching an article for Computer Weekly about licensing following a podcast interview I conducted with ...

• Bank cashes in on ID theft

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 21 Jun 2007

I received some junk mail last week from my bank. It was a letter warning me of the problems with identity theft and offering an insurance scheme for just £6.99 per month to protect me against ...

• Does virtual make sense?

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 20 Jun 2007

I wonder if any research has been done on how hypervisors scale in a live data centre rather than a development lab/test environment.

• The virtual choice

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 19 Jun 2007

Virtualisation offers us a way to extend the life of old software. The hardware can be upgraded to the latest specification, allowing the legacy software to take advantage of increased performance. ...

• Forced upgrades

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 18 Jun 2007

It does seem totally unnecessary for something as open as the PC architecture to limit upgradeability

• Can the IT industry be green?

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 15 Jun 2007

The industry relies on businesses and consumers to buy the latest hardware, software, mobile phones and gadgets. Personally, I think this model of driving innovation is not sustainable.

• Bloatware is not green

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 14 Jun 2007

Today's coders simply link to a bloatware library - accessing application services over the web that may a see a computer run millions of lines of code.

• Programming elegance

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 13 Jun 2007

A major contributor to the energy inefficiency of modern IT is our reliance on Moore's Law, which has progressively lowered the cost of computing power.

• More hot air

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 12 Jun 2007

I fear, any gains in efficiency will quickly be consumed by even more power hungry peripherals.

• Green shift to lower emissions

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 11 Jun 2007

The way the PC industry operates is simply not green. My PC is simply not compatible with Vista. Why should I throw away a perfectly good machine, simply because the new software won't run on it.

• Moore or less

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 08 Jun 2007

Moore's Law has been great news for consumers of IT, up to a point, but has also led to built-in obsolescence.