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The virtualisation of cryptographic services
by Accenture
There is an ever increasing trend to virtualise IT services and we see this in nearly every facet of IT, from data centre provisioning to fine-grain identity management. Virtualisation allows you to rationalise and optimise services in a cost...
September 20, 2009 1:10 AM Read Full Post
Cloud: Finding True North
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I recently presented a workshop on cloud computing to a fairly large pharmaceutical company. The discussion rolled and swayed across all ports: IT is still relevant. Cloud computing is a component of the business service management strategy. Virtualization and...
September 18, 2009 6:47 PM Read Full Post
Open source – no question of quality
by Accenture
I am probably biting off more than I can chew, within a brief blog post here. But, I wanted to capture a couple of points relative to the notion of the quality of open source software (OSS). It continues...
September 16, 2009 10:37 AM Read Full Post
Affordable BI
by Accenture
The current challenging economic situation both decreases the willingness of many companies to invest, while at the same time increases the need to capture and analyse data in order to stay competitive. According to a recent article on BI...
September 7, 2009 12:52 AM Read Full Post
Hey Cloud - that's mine, now give it back
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The spectre of vendor lock-in by cloud service providers is clear as the driven snow: modified programming languages, proprietary application program interfaces (APIs) and non-portable cloud services. According to Vinton Cerf, an American computer scientist who is the "person...
September 4, 2009 2:25 PM Read Full Post
Will Cloud based computing help accelerate the take-up of IAM?
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Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the Jekyll and Hyde of enterprise security: it’s a proven technical solution to a clear business problem yet it has not become ubiquitous. Enterprises that have it, love it and couldn’t live without...
September 3, 2009 1:27 PM Read Full Post
Metadata management: Can the investment be postponed further?
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“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it,” according to Dr. Samuel Johnson. Metadata indeed provides businesses with the type of knowledge to find the required information...
August 27, 2009 10:50 AM Read Full Post
Commercial open source is essential to enterprise IT
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In the ideal world, open source software would be free of charges and its communities would operate on a Service Level Agreement (SLA) scale. There would be virtually no expenses to acquire, use and maintain the software in enterprise...
August 13, 2009 9:50 AM Read Full Post
Driving up success with SaaS
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Against a backdrop of increasing focus on Cloud Computing, I was surprised to see the recently published headline “Gartner finds lukewarm reception to SaaS.” The Gartner report was based upon a survey completed across 333 companies in the US...
August 10, 2009 2:15 PM Read Full Post
There is more to enterprise social networks than locating a colleague’s phone number
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Recently, we’ve seen much wider adoption of Social Networking tools in business: Business leaders seem to understand the benefits of these tools in a professional environment. They’re realising that they are a useful tool for searching colleagues with a...
August 6, 2009 4:15 PM Read Full Post
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