Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

July 2007

• Bargain PC upgrade - memory is everything

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 31 Jul 2007

2 GBytes of RAM seems to be the current sweetspot for Windows XP. It is a good general amount of memory that users generally consider necessary for running their apps

• Bargain PC upgrade from eBay

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 30 Jul 2007

A second-hand processor represents a bargain PC upgrades, however, it's very important to match the processor you plan to buy with your existing motherboard. There is a risk, as processors are ...

• Billions wasted on poor quality software

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 26 Jul 2007

What is the real cost of poo quality software? In 1992 Nist estimated that the national impact from an inadequate infrastructure for software testing was $59 billion

• Return of the elk

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 25 Jul 2007

Unlike the car industry, software is still shipped with bugs and the software industry does not disclose these problems. Maybe it has somethine to hide about teh quality of its products?

• Barcelona goes green

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 24 Jul 2007

AMD's quad core Barcelona processor is socket compatible with the dual core AMD Opteron processor, yet AMD says it consumes the same amount of electricity and generates the same amount of heat.

• Get outta my InBox

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 23 Jul 2007

I wish people would learn how to use email properly. It is not designed for sening massive files. Sending such files not only wastes bandwidth, it also takes up unnecessary storage space.

• My Dopey Space forever

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 20 Jul 2007

Today social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo have attracted millions of users who happily reveal intimate details of their private lives. This deeply personal information may ...

• My favourite desktop software

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 19 Jul 2007

Desktop software that have really made a difference to the world of IT.

• The biggest thing in IT

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 18 Jul 2007

Is Google the most significant technological advancement of the last decade?

• Say no to default passwords

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 16 Jul 2007

Why cant it be as easy to configure security as it is to plug the router in? One of my colleages spent a day browsing websites to get all the information he needed to configure his router.

• Security in the hands of the ignorant

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 13 Jul 2007

Even to my untrained ear, it was pretty obvious she was trying to discretely give out her login details to the person on the other end of the phone.

• Hot xbox 360 - Internet meltdown

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 12 Jul 2007

It's hard to see the productivity gains a home user will achieve from having to wait an hour to download high definition video onto an energy inefficient xbox 360 via a massive content delivery ...

• Microsoft software assurance: where is the value?

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 11 Jul 2007

In spite of the weather, it is July. This year is the 6th anniversary of Software Assurance (SA), Microsoft's controversial subscription licensing scheme. Through the three year subscription, users ...

• VMWare London Symposia: let's tackle the issues

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 10 Jul 2007

We need results. And until the biggest names in the software business are on board, server virtualisation is going to be marginalised.

• Tackle green IT, make virtualisation affordable

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 09 Jul 2007

Virtualisation is a way to make IT green. I hope IBM, Microsoft and Oracle change their server virtualisation policies to encourage wider adoption, rather than see it as a quick win to tax users