We have all sat through talks espousing flexible architectures and state-of-the-art development methodologies - but do they make profits? Established accounting practice is based on a capital-intensive view of the world.
This includes the integration of Microsoft's appliance server products with NEC's upcoming Blade Server, scheduled for release next spring. Microsoft and NEC have in the past few hours outlined a strategic alliance that will see the companies...
Although the number may sound dramatic, Forrester noted that it represents less than seven per cent of jobs in the categories covered by the study, which include "management," "computer" and "legal. A number of analysts and business groups have...
This is a sliding scale - fast (think high-end disk) tends to be expensive, and slow (think tape) tends to be cheap, with several categories in-between. EMC was quick to jump on the bandwagon, and a number of other companies including Veritas have...
Other findings from the survey of 92 financial organisations included more focus on web services and new architectures over the coming year as legacy platforms and infrastructure are replaced with emerging technologies such as grid computing and...
This model is most useful in companies with legacy environments that often split their technology platforms into such categories as mainframe, distributed systems, and databases. Several major organisations in financial services, logistics...