Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Recent Posts
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IT Disputes - Spotting them Early and Resolving Them Quickly
26 Sep 2011 -
What to Watch Out for When Migrating to Office 365
- Managing Editor 22 Sep 2011 -
Microsoft's Gordon Frazer comment leads to Dutch rethink on US cloud providers
- Managing Editor 21 Sep 2011
You might say that you can spot an IT dispute as soon as you see a few emails from your IT supplier to you (the Customer) demanding payment (or some other remedy). You, the Customer, may not being ...
...doing a 'spring clean' and deleting unused or old files and archiving records at the outset will avoid wasted time spent migrating unnecessary data. This also has cost implications, as without ...
On September 5th Dutch Minister Ivo Opstelten (Security and Justice) responded to questions relating to US cloud companies storing Duth data and the impact of the US Patriot Act. The minister's ...
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IBM third-party maintenance breathes new life into mainframes
- Managing Editor 20 Sep 2011 -
IT Departments as business service brokers
- Managing Editor 19 Sep 2011 -
September 13th Microsoft Patch Tuesday Application Compatibility Report by ChangeBASE
- Managing Editor 14 Sep 2011 -
Accenture Chief Technology Innovation Officer argues the case for disconnecting your IT architecture
- Managing Editor 08 Sep 2011 -
VMWare puts Windows in a browser
- Managing Editor 30 Aug 2011 -
Jobs goes: can Apple take the NeXTstep
- Managing Editor 25 Aug 2011 -
IT Works: Information technology offers the greatest opportunity for employment and entrepreneurship
- Managing Editor 12 Aug 2011
The European Competitions (anti-trust) Commission has ruled that IBM must publish information on mainframe spares for third party maintainers.It's fair to say the mainframe is not going away. Some ...
The flexibility of the Cloud is changing the dynamics of outsourcing arrangements. Katy Ring of K2 Advisory looks at how CIOs should manage these new opportunities.
With this September Microsoft Patch Tuesday update, we see again a relatively small set of updates in comparison to the lists of updates released by Microsoft in the previous months. In total there ...
A few weeks ago Accenture's Gavin Michael wrote on this blog about making information the key requirement of IT. In the blog post below he calls for a change in how IT thinks about itself. I have ...
At this year's VMWorld, VMWare is killing off desktop computing. Well, it is at least trying to convince the world, that thin client virtual desktop infrastructure is the way forward. There have ...
In the book "Insanely Great", which tells the story of how the Apple Mac was created, Steve Jobs comes across as a driven character, perfectionist, whose attention to detail almost gave the whole ...
Why not consider a career in IT? IT both empowers and is itself a stimulus for innovation. Cost of entry is low, so there are plenty of opportunities for entrepreneurship through innovative use of ...
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Patch Tuesday Report 9th August
- Managing Editor 11 Aug 2011 -
Amazon downtime: how important is cloud?
- Managing Editor 09 Aug 2011 -
Guest blog post: Gavin Michael, CTIO Accenture on the "I" in IT
- Managing Editor 05 Aug 2011 -
Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Software testing firm in Glasgow offers work opportunities
- Managing Editor 20 Jul 2011 -
Oracle tight-lipped on eBusiness Suite support fee hike
- Managing Editor 15 Jul 2011
With this August Microsoft Patch Tuesday update, we see a moderate set of updates in comparison to those lists of updates released by Microsoft for the months of June and July. In total there are ...
If you look at Amazon's 10Q report for three months ending March 30th 2011, income from Amazon's AWS cloud service accounted for only $311m out of the $9.857 billion the company made altogether. ...
Having the right data platform will become a strong business driver for the way in which innovation and growth are delivered, and companies that make the investment will pull away from those who ...
A few years ago I attended a presentation given by Thorkil Sonne, the founder of Specialisterne, who formed the Danish software company in order to make use of the special skills that people with ...
people using Oracle eBusiness Suite 11 have delayed upgrading to eBusiness Suite 12 waiting for Fusion - but now Oracle is going to charge extended support.on eBusiness Suite 11.