Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Recent Posts
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Will Microsoft pursue a single Windows kernel?
- Managing Editor 14 Jan 2014 -
Windows 8.1: Start failure
- Managing Editor 21 Oct 2013 -
Ubuntu Edge sells out
- Managing Editor 24 Jul 2013
During the Build developer's conference in April, Microsoft is expected to reveal more details of a future version of Windows codenamed Threshold.Rumours on the web suggest that Threshold could ...
It has been a while since my last post. Today I spent the last few hours updating Windows 8 and I thought I'd share my experiences.Window 8.1 is the free update to Windows 8, which supposedly fixes ...
Earlier this week Ubuntu's CEO, mark Shuttleworth unveiled a crowdfunding model to get people to buy into his concept of a converged PC/smartphone device.The appeal hit its first million within ...
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Get into Linux in under an hour on a Raspberry Pi
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Video interview: Kim Stevenson, CIO Intel on BYOD
- Managing Editor 29 May 2013 -
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 -
Oracle should heed warnings from the trends in enterprise
- Managing Editor 15 Feb 2013 -
Virtual Modelling: A new IT optimisation tool
- Managing Editor 21 Jan 2013
Raspberry Pi (Photo credit: CesarCardoso)It's been a while since I raved about losing a weekend getting to grips with Linux on a home project to build a music server.It took a weekend to get the ...
I recently spoke to Kim Stevenson, CIO at Intel. When she started in IT, people used to try to issue one device per employee. She says Intel has been running BYOD for three years. "People like ...
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 ...
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.
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Software licence audits: Confidence in Your Choices
- Managing Editor 17 Jan 2013 -
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
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 ...