Size zero computing - when thin can be good
Thin-client computing—a term to strike fear into many users, with thoughts of a weird desktop device giving slow, inconsistent access to applications, little support for local devices and no capability for untethered use. Possibly, at a...
Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 9th March '09
Who says employees want to pay for their own hardware?
Quocirca recently spent some days in Cannes, courtesy of VMware. The virtualisation infrastructure vendor hosted VMworld Europe 2009 in the town and talked up a perfect storm regarding cloud computing delivered on a VMware stack.
The...
Simon Perry, Quocirca | 10th March '09
Collapsing computing - The future of the datacentre?
It had to happen. The relationship between the computer and the network, long regarded as cousins rather than really close family, is under new focus. As the world has started to move from a one application, one server mentality to a world...
Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 16th March '09
DLP is coming to the datacentre
Organisations today are under enormous pressure to protect the sensitive information on which they rely. New reports of such losses abound and each case has the potential to seriously damage corporate reputations, can lead to financial loss...
Fran Howarth, Quocirca | 26th March '09