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Looking under the covers, taking the smoke and mirrors away from vendors' stories, questioning the topics de jour - here, Quocirca's analysts provide their views on the business and technology world and what is of importance to you and your businesses in the real world.
Learning from the credit crunch to avoid a broadband crunch
While it might be the most pressing issue de jour, the financial system isn't the only area where government needs to inject a bit of liquidity to get a market moving. The way in which broadband services are supplied could also do with a little...
Rob Bamforth, Quocirca | 10th October '08
What is Symantec's vision?
This week Symantec ran its Vision conference in The Hague, the European centre of freedom, security and justice, as its executives were keen to point out. So what is Symantec's vision, does it bear scrutiny, is it delivering on it and was The...
Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 8th October '08
PUE, DCiE and TCE - and what's still missing...
Back from another Indian trip, and interesting discussions around how organisations can measure their datacentre's effectiveness when it comes to carbon footprint. One measure out there is power usage effectiveness (PUE), where the total amount of...
Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 3rd October '08
McAfee and the provision of secure computing
Sometimes a company's name is so close to what it does that it can be a distraction. This is certainly true of Secure Computing (Secure) that aims to provide its customers with, well—secure computing. The trouble is that the same is true of...
Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 2nd October '08
Customer service not lip service
You would think that as economic conditions harden that customer service might improve. Certainly it should if businesses want to remain competitive, but the problem is exacerbated because all too often the first thing most companies cut back on...
Rob Bamforth, Quocirca | 1st October '08
IT professionals are looking for green leadership
In an increasing number of conversations Quocirca has with technology professionals it is becoming clearer that more and more people fundamentally get the problem of climate change. This is true for professionals working for both vendors and user...
Simon Perry, Quocirca | 30th September '08
From brand name to dictionary
One of the pleasures of being an analyst is spending hours on the phone learning of the latest innovations from vendors regarding their products. To animate such discussions, a presentation is often forwarded before the call which is used to talk...
Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 23rd September '08
How open is "open"?
If you were asked to open the window there would be little confusion in the request. Similarly a request to shut the window would normally be interpreted to mean that you should swing or slide the pane all the way to its rest and probably lock it...
Simon Perry, Quocirca | 18th September '08
Available virtualisation
One of the perceptions around virtualisation seems to be that it automatically provides you with high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). Certainly, as a platform, it paves the way for this capability, but additional tools are still...
Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 16th September '08
Are we approaching a green IT tipping point?
Anyone following the ongoing scientific research into climate change will be familiar with the term environmental tipping point. It usually refers to some point beyond which irreversible change occurs in either a single ecosystem such as the...
Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 5th September '08