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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.

Recent Blog Posts

Mixing water and electricity - Cool!
When presenting on how to build a modern data centre, I generally point to the fact that a data centre should be built for the machines, not for the humans, and an air temperature of around 26–27 degrees C is fine for most...
Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 18th March '10

Can Novell thrive by being a jack of all trades?
Any business likes to claim to be number one at something; the biggest pet-shop in town, the largest office productivity application provider globally, the only telco that provides both mobile and broadband in your area. To this end...
Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 8th March '10

Enterprise performance management - the story continues...
Quocirca has completed the second cycle of research and analysis for Oracle around enterprise performance management (EPM), and the headline results show a massive improvement across the six sub-indices and the overall EPM index. Surely,...
Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 2nd March '10

Keeping mobile data flowing
A recent article in the Economist, titled Breaking up saturated mobile networks, underlined the problems mobile network operators (MNO) face as demand for data access surges. The article is empathetic with a recent Quocirca report...
Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 19th February '10

Making a pain go away
Up front, I apologise. I am about to write a couple of words that are likely to make the general readers eyes glaze over. Bear with me and I hope that the end result is a bit more interesting than the topic itself may at first appear....
Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 11th February '10

Mobile machine to machine (M2M) - is it worth having less to talk about?
With its recent launch of a Mobile Manifesto and a Mobile Green Manifesto, the GSMA has attempted to underline what it believes are key deliverable objectives that the mobile industry can contribute to the 'outside world'. There is...
Rob Bamforth, Quocirca | 9th February '10

Lotusphere 2010 - consolidation, and setting the future scene
At Lotusphere this year, there was little in the way of rip-roaring, rousing announcements that could knock the socks off someone who was sitting there wondering what Lotus would do for their business. For the techies making up the vast majority of...
Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 19th January '10

Plan for carbon trading - or pay the price
For some time now, those organisations deemed to fit into the high energy intensive space, such as mining and refining, have had to adhere to laws around setting and achieving energy usage targets. As of 1 April 2010, however, less energy intensive...
Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 6th January '10

CRU email row highlights importance of data loss prevention
The recent theft of emails from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (UEA CRU) has proved embarrassing, but the incident does not change any of the facts regarding global warming. New Scientist (9th Dec 2009) summaries it...
Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 21st December '09

Platform-as-a-service: next year's big thing?
Will 2010 be the year that platform-as-a-service (PaaS) comes of age? Amazon's Web Services (AWS) keep cropping up in conversations Quocirca has with independent software vendors (ISV); Salesforce.com's force.com platform is attracting more and more...
Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 14th December '09