There has been plenty of discussion about the negative impact of IT on the environment – power use and waste – but what about the plus points? ...
25/07/2007 | Silicon offset and the green debate.pdf | VIEW
The IT and communications industries can now offer high storage capacities and highly functional access and management tools, and organisations can put in place well-honed records management policies, but all systems still rely on that weakest of links – people. ...
25/07/2007 | Records management - who does what, and why.pdf | VIEW
Today's digital printing landscape is changing: the home is losing ground as a location for printing photos to retailers or online services, not to mention the increasing propensity for consumers to share and manage their images online. But what continues to drive printed output, both at home and in enterprises is the internet. ...
18/07/2007 | HP Print 2.0 - For the consumer or enterprise.pdf | VIEW
The best way to get reliable performance out of a wide area network (WAN) is to install your own high-speed gigabit fibre optic cables between all the locations in your organisation. This could provide seemingly unlimited bandwidth for your employees to use the applications they like and not have to think twice about the volume of content they send around the network. ...
17/07/2007 | Speeding up the net - is it possible.pdf | VIEW
With the launch of its Forefront security product range this week, Microsoft has deployed its tanks on the lawns of Symantec, McAfee and many other IT security vendors. So is it time for resellers to entrust Microsoft with all their customers' IT security needs and kiss goodbye to their current security partners? ...
09/07/2007 | Of Microsoft Forefront security.pdf | VIEW
We live in a shrinking world, but sometimes the apparent simplicity of making distant things closer together leads to a faster frequency of change. Remember holding a ruler to a desk at school, hitting it to vibrate and then shortening its free length to increase the pitch? For the business world these are not always good vibrations. ...
04/07/2007 | Survival of the slackest.pdf | VIEW
There are many reasons why organisations decide to define and implement a records management policy, but these are often external factors, such as changes in legislation or requests or demands from 3rd parties. If taken in isolation these external factors create a negative approach that obscures the internal needs to reduce costs or risks and to add value to the organisation. ...
04/07/2007 | Effective records management policy.pdf | VIEW
A major gripe of mine about service oriented architecture (SOA) is the lack of a clear definition of the term by the software industry. ...
14/06/2007 | SOA Technology Still Baffles Business.pdf | VIEW
It has been a little while since I decided to be brave and upgrade my ThinkPad laptop from Windows XP to Vista Ultimate, along with upgrading Office XP to Office 2007. ...
21/05/2007 | Vista Upgrade Revisited.pdf | VIEW
Look around any office environment and it is hard to ignore the paper mountains; they quickly dispel any predictions of the "paperless office". Driven by the explosion of the Internet and digital technology, paper is ubiquitous in the office and consumption shows no signs of abating. Whether it is printing email, web pages, documents, or digital photographs, the office environment is a huge source of paper waste, and a costly one at that. ...
14/05/2007 | The Green Print for Paper Saving.pdf | VIEW
