Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Recent Posts
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Quantum and the art of noise
- Managing Editor 11 Feb 2022 -
Idol thoughts
- Managing Editor 01 Feb 2022 -
The road less travelled paves the path to stealth disruption
- Managing Editor 27 Jan 2022
Noise, huh, what’s it good for? Absolutely nothin’. Apart from the geniuses trying to further the advancement of noisy intermediate quantum computing (Nisq), noise means errors. Lowering the error ...
HP, angry that it had to write down $5 bn on its purchase of Autonomy, has now made a breakthrough in the UK court. The court ruled that HP “substantially succeeded” in its claims against the ...
During the recent Ocado Re:Imagined event, the company’s founder and CEO, Tim Steiner, discussed how stealth disruptors were used to invent something he described as “really radical”. Really ...
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Why hybrid IT means having a squeezed middle
- Managing Editor 13 Jan 2022 -
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 -
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
From a pure sense of logic, cloud computing is the right choice for almost every situation requiring enterprise IT. Hardware can be deployed as and when required, used on-demand and the management ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 -
Law enforcement: Question the tech sector's motives
- Managing Editor 08 Sep 2021
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 ...
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 ...