Serena eats own dog food (no, not the tennis player)
On the surface Serena Software is an old-school vendor. Its business is the dull side of software development—application lifecycle management (ALM)—which includes things like version control, requirements management and change...
Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 4th November '08
When it all looks bad, what's the best thing to do?
Amid all the doom and gloom of the financial situation, we're all facing a similar problem—how to keep our businesses afloat. With many organisations taking the standard knee-jerk reaction of battening down the financial hatches and looking...
Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 6th November '08
More woes from the finance sector
In gloomy economic times, organisations across the board look to cut costs—and one key way of doing this is to contract out business functions to partners through outsourcing. Research just published by Quocirca entitled Winning outsourcing...
Fran Howarth, Quocirca | 6th November '08
Putting IT centre stage in the green debate
Quocirca dropped by last week's Green IT event to wander the various vendor stalls and listen in on the clever, the confident, the clumsy, and the borderline confused that make up the mixed bag that are conference speakers.
Quick observation:...
Simon Perry, Quocirca | 10th November '08
In a downturn, should you build a new datacentre?
With new hardware constructs such as blade computing combined with virtualisation driving greater densities in datacentres and stressing capabilities for the provision of power and cooling in existing facilities, there has been a lot of discussion...
Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 12th November '08
No north-south divide on the internet
A summer silly season think tank report in the UK caused a bit of a controversial stir when it suggested that northern cities were beyond revival and that for economic reasons there should be a mass migration of the population to London, Cambridge...
Rob Bamforth, Quocirca | 26th November '08
Just who is sharing your sensitive information?
Businesses are increasingly reliant on electronic collaboration, requiring that teams can collaboratively create, manage and share documents on which they are working. Those teams may not only be geographically distributed within an organisation,...
Fran Howarth, Quocirca | 26th November '08