Others suggest users just want to do the same things - resource and file sharing - only more efficiently and across increasingly wide boundaries. Ask a networking vendor what that application is going to be and they'll give you myriad of answers...
Sharman and Altnet have also been working though a trade association they started, the Distributed Computing Industry Alliance, to try to create a forum where entertainment companies, internet service providers and file-swapping companies can...
Using a variable pricing model, Qantas will pay only for the computing power it uses, which has the potential to reduce the airline's IT costs significantly. Riley said "the services arrangement with IBM will give Qantas the ability to quickly...
On top of this, all of Sodexho's costs, including staffing in this area, shifted to variable. We decided to introduce one common platform, one application used everywhere in our Asia-Pacific businesses so we could shift our resources to our core...
Virtualisation enables a new design paradigm of loosely coupled processes - allowing the flexibilities required to deliver both agility and asset productivity. One of the key ways in which this claim can be presented as genuine is in the...
Allan Paterson, director of the IS division for the Isle of Man government, said: "We have no intention of reducing our spending in this area - we see external contractors as a key complementary resource to our in-house headcount, allowing us to...