That is fine in an office environment but not a lot of fun if you are trying to fix a cable 100 feet in the air," Hulme said. One utility that has been piloting Cartesia is Bristol Water - a company that had been reliant on the paper-based method...
But it's not an automatic fix. We have a situation now where a virus could have done 80 per cent of its damage before a fix has been written - we're shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Once the repairman has been inside the box it is far more likely to become unreliable. Hence the old adages - 'leave well enough alone' or 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'. Peter Cochrane examines the causes and offers a solution to flaky tech.
John Odell, group IT director at the BBA Group, said the IT department's struggle for credibility is partly its own making because "IT is still far too complex and prone to failures" and this will impact on the evolution of the CIO into a more...
It said: "Mr Muglia and his team ultimately concluded that the current process of trying to fix issues.one at a time was unlikely, in the foreseeable future, to result in documentation that is satisfactory.
Others favour the encryption method. But Paul Hopkins, IT director at Newcastle University, said more needs to be done to discourage theft in the first place by improving the capability to track stolen laptops.