Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
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Tackling the Big Blue software licensing challenge
- Managing Editor 08 Apr 2013 -
Five facts on Dell (Denali)
- Managing Editor 05 Apr 2013 -
Recovering and deleting data from SSDs
- Managing Editor 20 Mar 2013
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 ...
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 ...
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Oracle should heed warnings from the trends in enterprise
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Virtual Modelling: A new IT optimisation tool
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Software licence audits: Confidence in Your Choices
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MS user CAL fails BYOD
- Managing Editor 06 Dec 2012 -
Home working alert
- Managing Editor 26 Nov 2012 -
Emirates in-flight wi-fi and telemetry
- Managing Editor 20 Nov 2012 -
Video review: Microsoft Surface tablet
- Managing Editor 02 Nov 2012
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 ...
The changes Microsoft has made to client access licences (CAL) reflects a change in how people use the company's software. Today, people expect to have access to the MS Exchange Server via their ...
A couple of weeks ago I received a telephone call at home claiming to be from the Windows Support team. The lady on the phone asked me if my PC was running slow (which it was!) and put me through ...
I have been a guest of Emirates today at its network control centre in Dubai, I am currently on an Airbus A380 flying back to the UK.There is Wi-Fi on this flight, which is connecting via satellite ...
The £399 Surface is Microsoft's first foray into PC hardware. The tablet device runs Windows RT, which means it is unable to use x86 applications. This is a bit limiting if you would like your own ...
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Windows 8: worth the wait?
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Oracle pushes proprietary, but can it keep ahead in hardware?
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Can Microsoft bridge the enterprise world with consumer space
- Managing Editor 20 Sep 2012 -
Calling Apple: Are you good for business?
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Java exploit questions Oracle's security
- Managing Editor 29 Aug 2012
Windows 8 is out, the Microsoft Store in New York is open and Surface has surfaced. Times are certainly changing for Microsoft as it takes aim at Apple with a consumer friendly device and OS. ...
Oracle is well and truly pushing engineered (ie proprietary) systems.Speaking yesterday in London, Oracle president Mark Hurd claimed that Oracle's vertically integrated stack combining hardware, ...
For many years, Microsoft has been building its credentials in the enterprise with Windows Server, providing an alternative to costly Unix systems. It has taken over 20 years since it divorced IBM ...
An article on Forbes has quoted the latest research from Forrester, which predicts Apple will sell $7 billion worth of Macs and $10 billion of iPads in the enterprise in 2012. Forrester analyst ...
Oracle has said "no comment" to the question I posed on when it would release a patch for a serious security hole in its Java runtime environment, that is currently being exploited.At the time of ...