Martin Banks on IT-Director.com

Industrializing software opens new possibilities

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Fujitsu-Siemens' FlexFrame could be the model for a new way of building applications and services. [Read More...]

This Cloud has a silver lining

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0100

Clouds may be hard to see through, but jumping into it may be the way for both users and vendors to see their way clear of the recession [Read More...]

Psychology of data ownership may be changing at last

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:00:00 +0100

Owning data is getting less important than knowing it is secure and well-managed, making remote services a more attractive and cost-effective option. [Read More...]

Staff issue gives CICS closer web connection

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:00:00 +0100

As staff with old CICS skills retire, the new skills can help link it more tightly to Web 2.0 [Read More...]

Fujitsu-Siemens makes infrastructure more flexible

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0100

The dividing line of infrastructure responsibility between vendor and customer is difficult to fix, so why bother? Instead work with making it as flexible and dynamic as possible. [Read More...]

NetSuite OneWorld takes financial consolidation from stale snapshot to slo-mo real-time replay

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Wed, 21 May 2008 06:00:00 +0100

A new SaaS service brings the ability to have real-time consolidation of global financial results, with full drill down, rather than a just a snapshot' of a past moment in time. [Read More...]

The high security hosting bunker

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:05:00 +0100

Centrinet's Smartbunker hosts high security, zero-carbon data centre services [Read More...]

NetSuite's new O/S aimed straight at Partners

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:00:00 +0100

NetSuite's expanded development platform NS-BOS should fit SI and ISV Partners well. [Read More...]

IBM aims at next data centre abstraction level

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:00:00 +0100

The New Enterprise Datacenter brings the new z/10 mainframe centre-stage to create the enterprise ensemble [Read More...]

Be green - throttle bloatware

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

The current concentration on hardware improvements is only half the green battle, not the whole war. [Read More...]

The Web + mainframe + Itanium = Very Interesting

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Mainframe systems and applications could prove key to expanding transaction-based services via the web, and could provide a boost for Intel's Itanium processor as well. [Read More...]

SaaS, Brand Mastery and Collective Capitalism

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:00:00 +0100

SaaS offers traditional - and new - channel partners the potential to become brand masters in their field and the market front for the biggest vendors, creating a new economic approach: Collective Capitalism. [Read More...]

Events move in favour of Blade Servers

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:00:00 +0100

It's not just the technology that makes Blades increasingly interesting to users. [Read More...]

A future for mainframes in SOA

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:00:00 +0100

New tools like DataDirect's Shadow V7 can revitalise the role of the mainframe [Read More...]

HP looking to build on Mercury's SaaS offerings in IT management

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Software as a Service is now a major delivery option for CIOs in managing infrastructure and the delivery of business services. [Read More...]

Requirements Management gets a make-over

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:00:00 +0100

Next generation technologies, such as Jama Software's Contour, are able to address a much broader set of issues that surround and underpin Requirements Management [Read More...]