http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,114626b,00.htm manek's Blog - Back office - Latest blog feeds at ZDNet UK en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:48:13 +0000 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:48:13 +0000 20 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (m) An analyst has launched a broadside at cloud computing vendors, accusing them of being immature, and offering few real protection for their data. Camille Mendler, VP of research at Yankee Group, was speaking at NetEvents AsiaPac press summit, said tha... zdnetuk/10014479 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014479o-114626b,00.htm Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:24:35 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (m) Am in the middle of some research into storage, and the latest technologies that help to ensure that storage doesn't exist as an island or silo. No, don't switch off! It gets interesting later... I participated in a panel discussion yesterday with IBM... zdnetuk/10014435 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014435o-114626b,00.htm Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:02:55 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (m) have announced that they'll be sellin...]]> zdnetuk/10014382 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014382o-114626b,00.htm Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:30:18 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (m) Is email archiving a big problem for SMEs? I spoke recently to Softek, a UK-based disti billing itself as 'highly technical value add distributor of IT security, email archiving and storage solutions'. Naturally enough, it has a view and a product to shif... zdnetuk/10014372 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014372o-114626b,00.htm Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:17:37 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (m) The world tends to see Ethernet as the way forward for pretty much every type of connectivity requirement. But is it – especially in the context of storage? This is the debate that once -- but not perhaps so much now -- raged around the idea of Fibre ... zdnetuk/10014320 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014320o-114626b,00.htm Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:25:14 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (m) Virtualisation has moved from being a shiny new technology concept to a sticky business that involves getting your hands dirty with some real technology and business problems. But while server virtualisation is now a well-known technique for saving money ... zdnetuk/10014303 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014303o-114626b,00.htm Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:03:36 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (m) Are flywheels better than batteries? I visited a datacentre a while back that had a flywheel to fill the gap between power outages and the diesel generator kicking in. The datacentre manager told me it made sense because batteries - the usual alternative ... zdnetuk/10014247 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014247o-114626b,00.htm Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:53:16 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (m) Had an interesting wide-ranging discussion with a bunch of people at a BT cloud computing seminar the other day, including long-standing contact and analyst Phil Wainewright. But it was something that Chris Lindsay, BT's head of cloud, said that struck... zdnetuk/10014200 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014200o-114626b,00.htm Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:08:16 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (m) Every so often, a news story emerges -- usually after a quick blast of marketing and PR effort by IBM -- asserting that the mainframe is no longer dead. As IBM is now effectively the only purveyor of mainframe hardware, this can and often does follow the ... zdnetuk/10014128 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014128o-114626b,00.htm Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:39:32 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (m) a recent report, over half of CIOs reckon that users shouldn't be using social networking sites such as Facebook. The rationale is apparently that wo...]]> zdnetuk/10014107 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014107o-114626b,00.htm Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:41:36 +0100