Team Quocirca
Articles by Team Quocirca
The New Europe
As the EU continues to expand, European businesses must look to how they can trade across increasing numbers of regional boundaries, languages, cultures and...
Outsource your code & you're more likely to be hacked
In a new report released by European information technology analysis group, Quocirca, organisations that admitted to being frequently hacked, all outsource at...
An Overlooked Way to Save Money
According to industry estimates, between one and three per cent of a company's annual revenue is spent on printing. It is estimated organisations can save up...
Grid and SOA - Friends or Foes?
There has been much coverage in the press recently over two architectural approaches to technology: grid computing, where hardware assets are virtualised so...
Value Based SLAs - What are they?
A little while back, I was talking with Dr Bernd Kosch, chairman of the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA), now to be the Open Grid Forum, and we got on to the...
In the Beginning was the Mainframe
Some say that the technical platform future lies with commodity-based blade computers. Yet others say that software as a service will drive us towards a ...
Integrating the Digital Home
It starts with the external connection. The old dial-up problems of losing the phone service when on-line to the office has dissolved into second lines, cable...
Search Engines Need to Start Finding
Now, if I type something that I am more likely to be interested in, such as "saving for retirement", I get 24,400,000 results from Google, 6,160,000...
All About IT infrastructure library
Trouble is, not that many organisations have a clue what ITIL is or what it can do for them - and yet we're seeing that it has become one of the big 'tick ...
Public Sector Projects - could they do better?
The question is, given the nature of the public sector, could we expect them to do any better in future? Well, yes—but it will always be a struggle. In...
Collaboration and Communication - Is More Better?
A clever guy realised that this piece of paper could be delivered on a more wholesale basis, and that the delivery and return could be charged for, so ...
Tame your Mobile Telephony/Data costs
Cost or complexity. It seems a bit of a Hobson's choice, but for those who have to foot the bill for the increasing business use of communications on the go...
Are you a windscreen or a fly?
How to stay airborne in these competitive times. Convergence is one of those overloaded words typical of the communications industry which forms the basis of ...
Are we (virtually) there yet?
Ask vendors for a definition, and you'll get one. But is the definition correct, or are vendors taking a narrow view of virtualisation that plays only to...
