Archives : September 2009

Taking the long view of cloud

published on 2009/09/30 by Peter Martin

Cloud is coming, and it's coming because our kids wouldn't use anything else....

Are U agile?

published on 2009/09/28 by Michel Operto

If you work in any industry or administration that uses IT to support its business and your IT department hasn't yet spoken to you about Agile development methodologies, you should certainly question them why? If they have however, you're probably confused with some of the concepts associated with "agility" and all of the weird terminology that goes with it. This short post aims at helping you approach this promising way of incrementally developing new software. Agile development methodologies like Scrum for instance, help structure some of the prototyping approaches we have now been using for quite a while. Scrum explainedBut a picture is......

reducing power consumption

published on 2009/09/24 by Peter Glock

One extra thing to consider when consolidating data centres....

reducing power consumption

Analysts report weakness in Q2 server sales

published on 2009/09/22 by

IDC and Gartner published bleak figures for the worldwide server market during the second quarter of 2009, as reduced budgets impacted capital expenditure plans, and enterprises instead focused on leveraging the investments that have already been made.While there has been some optimism that the global economy is positioned to enter a period of recovery, this is not completely reflected in the analyst firms' forecasts for the immediate future. Certainly the appetite for "big ticket" purchases is likely to take longer to recover, due to a shift in corporate mindset towards conservatism that will not go away overnight.Gartner's numbersStarting with Gartner,......

Four point plan to reduce IT costs

published on 2009/09/18 by

ITBusinessEdge highlighted "four simple ways to reduce tech support and help desk costs", intended to aid companies looking to "trim the fat" by reducing operating expenses. In addition to any cost savings, the moves will improve systems uptime, enabling non-IT staff to concentrate on their work rather than being slowed by computer problems, and also improves user satisfaction, again through the removal of the need to address IT niggles.The four points, as suggested by Scott Gordon, Chief Operating Officer of US IT support company Dataprise, were:Keep users informed. Provide advance warning of scheduled downtime or planned maintenance, including projects undertaken......