All Posts Tagged With: "Software"
The Hot Aisle is delighted to announce version 1.0 of it’s new Apple iPhone and iPod application. Don’t expect a highly sophisticated experience as I set up this first version to be a basic newsfeed but would be delighted if you could submit comments and suggestions about what should be in version two. If you [...]
Recent cases of lost data have damaged public perception of government competence Over 80% of the population in Scotland has lost confidence in the UK government’s ability to look after personal data; this is the stark finding of the first comprehensive survey of its kind into the psychological impact of recent public sector information losses. [...]
Despite many high profile cases of unencrypted backup tapes going missing, more than a third of organizations still do not know if they should encrypt their backup tapes and half do not know where they would store their tape backup encryption keys. This is one of the alarming findings in the new 2008 Encryption and Key Management [...]
The British Computer Society (BCS) is calling on data centre operators to address growing power consumption and increased carbon emissions, in a white paper. The paper aims to develop understanding, methods and tools for the IT profession to address the cost and environmental impact of data centres. Bob Harvey, chair of the BCS Carbon Footprint [...]
Chicago Business News reports that Microsoft plans to open another massive data center, in Northlake near Chicago in 2009 that will be central to the software giant’s war with Google Inc. for Internet supremacy. The Data Center, large enough to hold eight football fields, is mooted to cost more than $500 million to build, sources familiar [...]
I first attended a First Tuesday event way back in 1999 when I was running a small startup software company in the telecommunications space. I remember lots of eager, young things desperately networking and looking for funding. First Tuesday is still going after 10 years, trying to help young companies and entrepreneurs network and raise capital. Unsurprisingly [...]
Global research firm, Gartner Inc, has reported Cordys, a global leader in next generation Business Process Management, as the fastest growing of the leading BPMS vendors worldwide. According to a recent report issued by the research firm, Cordys grew 98.2% year on year in 2007 based on total software revenue. The Gartner report states that [...]
I met up with Andy Monshaw, General Manager of IBM’s Storage Division last week for an exclusive Hot Aisle interview and found him in ebullient mood. Andy has been running Storage for IBM since January 2005 and is an industry veteran. Andy had prepared a huge list of new products and initiatives he wanted [...]
Today we are going to look at how fire detection systems can be used in Data Centers to prevent catastrophic loss and damage; we will focus on Very Early Smoke Detection Systems, (VESDA – Very Early Smoke Detection Alarm). Without an efficient and safe environment, there is no way to be assured of business continuity. [...]
My friend, the inventor and green innovator, Peter Hopton from VeryPC has a unique view on how to be environmentally responsible whilst deploying PCs into an office environment and he is presenting his ideas at The Carbon Footprint Energy Efficient IT Summit on the 4th and 5th September. Peter says that there are three basic [...]
I picked up a press release about a medium sized firm of Financial Advisors changing over from paper based to scanned images for storing their client files. Independent financial advisors, IFS, standardise on Kodak’s ScanMate i1120 scanners to manage client files * Financial Services Authority requires client paperwork to be stored indefinitely * Moving away [...]
The Daily Mail reports that a UK Government investigation was launched after the personally identifiable information (PII) of more than a million bank customers was found on a computer sold on eBay. Highly sensitive information on American Express, NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland customers was found on the disk array sold for £35.88 (about [...]
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a protocol and method for delivering frequently changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs (such as The Hot Aisle) and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to subscribers. RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows them to stay informed by retrieving the latest content [...]
GlassHouse Technologies, a global provider of independent IT infrastructure consulting services, announced on the 5th August 2008 the release of Reflector, a proprietary tool for managing data center migrations and consolidations. Reflector acts as a “single point of truth,” creating an efficient and streamlined process for managing a successful migration or consolidation project. In my opinion if [...]
The Hot Aisle always likes Business Process Management (BPM) as it helps our business colleagues to standardize and automate business processes that we can then provide automation technology to support. One of the best BPM companies, Cordys is holding an event on November 11-12, 2008 at Vanenburg Castle, Putten, Netherlands The Object Management Group (OMG) [...]
So we have a sub prime credit crisis that looks like it might turn into a global recession. IT is expensive and highly visible as well as often seen as non core. If you don’t get your budgets cut this year then you are very lucky and very unusual. I thought that you might like [...]
Just found a great new product on the web: DimDim a freeware collaboration tool that looks and feels really cool. There are a number of critical things that DimDim have done to ensure success. The first is to make the product really lightweight, there are no downloaded Java modules, so much easier to make work in a [...]
