Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Recent Posts
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Log4Shell: Why aren't we taking the security of the internet seriously?
- Managing Editor 15 Dec 2021 -
Explaining quantum empirically
- Managing Editor 08 Dec 2021 -
LEO: Office automation is still going strong
- Managing Editor 01 Dec 2021
To be caught out once may be an oversight, and lessons can be learned. But twice over a seven year timespan, shows a laissez faire attitude to the stability of the internet. In 2014, Heartbleed ...
Last month IBM introduced the next machine on its quantum computing roadmap. Among the significant implications of larger quantum machines is that it will soon be no longer possible to simulate the ...
Seventy years ago Lyons & Co ran the world’s first business computer program, marking the start of business automation. This is a theme of computing that is still very relevant today. The first ...
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Self regulation of AI is not an option
- Managing Editor 25 Nov 2021 -
When is it time to log off?
- Managing Editor 18 Nov 2021 -
CIOs: Time to drop the efficiency conversation
- Managing Editor 10 Nov 2021 -
Moore's Law is anti-sustainability
- Managing Editor 03 Nov 2021 -
COP26: IT's role in tackling climate change
- Managing Editor 25 Oct 2021 -
What is the real role of Windows 11?
- Managing Editor 29 Sep 2021 -
Please protect us from our own stupidity
- Managing Editor 22 Sep 2021
Earlier this week the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee took evidence from two experts, who were asked to share their thoughts on regulating artificial intelligence (AI). Among ...
In an article for The Guardian newspaper, Ana Catarina Mendes, the parliamentary leader of the Portuguese Socialist party, discussed the “the right to switch off”. As a result of the campaign run ...
At this time of year CIOs are often looking ahead to the new year to plan the IT projects they want to complete during 2022. According to Harvey Nash's Digital leadership report, company boards ...
The tech sector is laser-focused on driving upgrades. For decades the sector has rewarded shareholders with high growth, thanks to the prophecy that every 18 months to two years, computing doubles ...
Far from being a clean sector, IT is an immense consumer of natural resources and electricity. The majority of the world’s semiconductors are manufactured in Taiwanese fabrication plants (fabs), ...
In the context of Windows 11, the question is not necessarily whether it is better or worse than Windows 10 or whether it is worth upgrading. It’s about how useful it is. “What is the role of a ...
It seems like the simplest thing. Compose an email message and then CC colleagues. But,due to a Ministry of Defence blunder, this simple action, built into pretty much every piece of email client ...
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Law enforcement: Question the tech sector's motives
- Managing Editor 08 Sep 2021 -
Windows 11: A booster jab for the PC industry?
- Managing Editor 01 Sep 2021 -
The logic of software defined
- Managing Editor 03 Aug 2021 -
The Workday/Amazon saga raises serious questions on HCM
- Managing Editor 29 Jul 2021 -
Moving beyond Freedom Day has IT implications
- Managing Editor 20 Jul 2021
Perhaps there are application areas where law enforcement technology should not be used, one of the witnesses at a recent Justice and Home Affairs Committee meeting warned. Experts from the US, New ...
Looking cynically at the fact that Windows 11 will be available as a free upgrade from October 5, the timing of the new operating system release coincides with the need for the PC industry to ...
A recent conversation with Microsoft revealed a number of questions about where desktop IT could be heading. Logically, it makes sense for Microsoft to use the power of its public cloud to stream ...
It is too early to say definitively why Amazon decided to stop using Workday, but it is a topic worth a closer look. In 2017 Amazon began to deploy Workday Human Capital Management (HCM). Workday ...
Even though the Delta variant continues to rise in the UK, the Government has stuck to its plans to remove Covid-19 restrictions. In effect, it has passed on responsibility for keeping people safe ...