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How Ordnance Survey will use 250 years of data to support startups

Ordnance Survey is embarking on a project to foster startups, applying its vast repository of data to solving emerging challenges around urban spaces and smart cities Continue Reading
SaaS criteria to track for business outcomes

Organisations should evolve their SaaS selection criteria to focus on newer metrics that are better indicators of supplier performance Continue Reading
Combat IT complexity with operational intelligence

A Quocirca report says that businesses cope better with IT complexity and intensive security when they integrate BI and analytics tools into operational processes Continue Reading
All-flash vs hybrid flash for virtual desktop storage

With massive random I/O and a huge bias towards writes, virtual desktop storage – especially for the more feature-rich VDI 2.0 – requires the speed of all-flash and hybrid flash storage Continue Reading
UK datacentre growth trends: Why are users shunning inner-city facilities?

Research suggests inner cities are falling out of favour with datacentre developers, with cost-sensitive users willing to look further afield for co-location services Continue Reading

Business cases emerge from growing pains of Hadoop 1.0

The hype around the early generation of Hadoop is giving way to the reality of business programmes based on Hadoop 2 and Apache Spark Continue Reading
Where next for virtualisation?

CIOs met to discuss the past, present and future of virtualisation at Computer Weekly's CW500 Club in June 2015 Continue Reading
Should businesses upgrade to Windows 10?

Many organisations skipped the PC-unfriendly Windows 8 release. But Windows 10 is far more enterprise-focused Continue Reading
Russian big data technologies evolve with one eye on US open source

Russian data technicians have, until recently, shunned full-scale use of US-based open-source big data technology; but with one eye on it Continue Reading
Metropolis Studios runs music business expansion on FileMaker

Metropolis Studios has turned to FileMaker 14 to run the functional and creative sides of its business, replacing SAP Continue Reading
Better user acceptance testing through log management

Application log management provides insight into application behaviour, which can be used to build better software and gain a better hold of user acceptance testing Continue Reading

Should the strong US dollar prompt European CIOs to shop around for cloud?

The strengthening dollar is predicted to send IT costs soaring – so what steps can cloud-focused CIOs take to protect their budgets? Continue Reading
Still running Windows Server 2003? Don’t panic

Many organisations are facing the prospect of running Windows 2003 server unsupported. Where do you go from here? Continue Reading
Case study: City & Guilds skills up on Microsoft cloud to unite global workforce

Vocational training organisation City & Guilds uses Microsoft's collaboration, video conferencing and productivity tools to keep its global workforce connected Continue Reading
Why monitoring tools are key to your company's cloud success

Mashing up cloud services to create a platform that's right for the company makes investing in monitoring tools a must, says Clive Longbottom Continue Reading