Blogs - A Brief Introduction

We currently host a growing number of blogs:

Abrahams AccessibilityAlastair RevellBloor IM BlogBloor Security Blog
Fern HalperLaurie McCabeMarcia KaufmanMWD Advisors
Nigel StanleyOffice JotterProcess Performance BlogQuocirca
The Holloway AngleThe Norfolk Punt
Recent Blog Posts

Three new offerings - Revisu, Rizzoma and Trello
Here are outline details of three new/newish services that have caught my eye recently. 1. Revisu is a SaaS-based collaboration tool for those who don’t have or wish to invest in a full-function enterprise network system. One of its...
Office Jotter | By: Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 21st May '12

Organisations struggle to safely and securely delegate sys-admin tasks
Many system administrator tasks are a repetitive drudge. Senior IT managers do not want to be doing such tasks on a day-to-day basis and would prefer to delegate these to junior staff or contractors from 3rd parties. However, they need to be...
Quocirca | By: Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 18th May '12

Easing the pain of change
Well, I think that Configuration Management (rather than just Change Management) is what eases the pain of change - but there are various points of view on this. What is important is that people understand the various positions and their...
The Norfolk Punt | By: David Norfolk, Bloor Research | 16th May '12

For IBM, Process Innovation is social and mobile
I’ve been a little slow in blogging about what I learned at IBM IMPACT (#ibmimpact) this year… apologies if you’ve been waiting for pearls of wisdom from me! ;-) I blame a big client workload. Damn those clients. So it’s a...
MWD Advisors | By: Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 15th May '12

What exactly is in-memory?
In-memory is becoming increasingly popular within the data warehousing community. The cynic in me expects that traditional caching technology will soon be re-branded by marketing as in-memory, which, of course, it is, but that's not what people are...
Bloor IM Blog | By: Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 14th May '12

Graph databases and the warehouse
This is the last in a series of five articles about graph databases. I have previously described what they are, how they relate to NoSQL databases such as Hadoop, and what they are used for. I have specifically highlighted Neo4j and uRiKA, where the...
Bloor IM Blog | By: Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 14th May '12

Quocirca's Report from Infosecurity Europe 2012
The end of April was a busy time for IT security analysts. April 24 to 26 was Infosecurity Europe (InfoSec) at Earl’s Court, the biggest such trade show in Europe, and the following week was the Eskenzi PR annual IT Security Analysts...
Quocirca | By: Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 14th May '12

How to build a collaborative culture in 5 easy steps*
Last week I took part in #SWCHAT – a weekly tweetchat session focused on the social workplace, and run by David Christopher of Stop! Think Social. The topic of the session was “Building a collaborative culture”, the subject of my...
MWD Advisors | By: Angela Ashenden, MWD Advisors | 11th May '12

Service virtualisation
When you are developing or testing software that will exist within a service oriented architecture (SOA) you may have issues with the stability or availability of the services that you need to consume. This may be because these are under development...
Bloor IM Blog | By: Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 11th May '12

YarcData
This is the fourth of my series of articles about graph databases. Now I want to discuss uRiKA from YarcData, which is a spin-off from Cray (Yarc is Cray spelled backwards). As far as I know uRiKA is unique within the graph database space, primarily...
Bloor IM Blog | By: Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 11th May '12

Neo4j
This is the third in my series of articles about graph databases and here I am going to highlight Neo4j from Neo Technologies but first a further discussion on the use of graph databases versus (other) NoSQL approaches. A graph database has a...
Bloor IM Blog | By: Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 11th May '12

Making Small Business a Bigger Business: Intuit's Acquisition of Demandforce
Intuit announced last week that it was acquiring Demandforce, which provides an integrated suite of Web-based social media and marketing tools for small businesses, for $423.5 million in cash. Demandforce automates many of the internet and social...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, SMB Group | 9th May '12

Who wants sweaty assets?
As the financial climate cooled, Quocirca came across more and more organisations that sang the same song – do more with less, and batten down the hatches of expenditure to ride out the crisis. Part of the response back from IT on this was to...
Quocirca | By: Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 9th May '12

Infosec: Jailbroken devices are a threat to the network
Computing have a good piece summarising the panel I ran at InfoSec 2012 My issue was around the jailbreaking of devices. If a user is motivated and capable of jailbreaking a device what else could they be doing to your network? The full article is...
Nigel Stanley | By: Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research | 8th May '12

BYOD Video at Infosecurity 2012
Nigel Stanley, Practice Leader at Bloor Research, talks to Infosecurity Magazine's Drew Amorosi outside the keynote theatre at Infosecurity Europe 2012. Link to video here
Nigel Stanley | By: Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research | 8th May '12

Tech Tidbits for SMBs: May 4, 2012
I’m back to serve up the second edition of Tech Tidbits, with a new sampling of SMB solutions that you might not know about, but could provide just what you’re looking for. On the menu this time are PaySimple and BizSlate. If you use or...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, SMB Group | 4th May '12

IBM and Teradata acquisitions have mobile digital marketing flavour
Two acquisitions recently – Teradata buying eCircle and IBM snapping up Tealeaf – mark out digital marketing analytics as a focus and investment area for the data warehousing and analytic heavyweights. Although both acquisitions have...
MWD Advisors | By: Helena Schwenk, MWD Advisors | 4th May '12

Gabriel on SEO - 1
Gabriel Goldenberg is an expert on search engine optimisation (SEO). He has kindly agreed to let me reproduce in Office Jotter some of his writings on the topic. This is the first of them. You can read about Gabriel’s services at his Web site,...
Office Jotter | By: Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 4th May '12

Graph databases and NoSQL
This is the second of five articles on graph databases and in this article I am going to talk more about graph databases in general and how they differ from other approaches. In particular, to date, most of the emphasis within the big data story has...
Bloor IM Blog | By: Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 4th May '12

SC Magazine Virtual Summit - Lock Down the Mobile Front
I will be appearing in the SC Magazine Virtual Summit on mobile security on 18th May 2012 at 17.00 - 17.45. The session is called What Does The Future Hold? Understand What Technology, Staff Trends And Threats Lurk Round The Corner and will address...
Nigel Stanley | By: Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research | 4th May '12