Video conferencing has had many false dawns, but perhaps something is changing. Some of the technology perceptions that have affected its adoption for a long time still persist. There are concerns about interoperability between different vendors‟ products, the quality of the sound and video, the communications costs and impact on network bandwidth. Most of these [...]
The numbers of employees using some form of mobile technology while working has soared. The benefits to the organisation are well documented; employees are more contactable, will probably extend their working days and should be more productive. However, this is not a one way street; employees are avid consumers of all things mobile, as much [...]
The information technology landscape is a battlefield. Ready or not, you’ve been drafted into an epic good vs. evil struggle. You’re one of the good guys, striving to protect your networks and data from misuse. Meanwhile, the bad guys poke and prod at all of your assets from within and without, looking for the most [...]
Microsoft Active Directory is an established NOS directory technology and most enterprises have made significant investments in their AD infrastructure. Many of these enterprises are now looking to further improve the user experience, reduce redundancy, and increase simplicity of directory management, by re-using the information currently stored in AD for new initiatives and applications. In [...]
The Atom processor is a striking success for Intel. Without detracting from their efforts in the highend of the microprocessor market, the company has been able to develop a significant presence in the market’s low end. From the Intel perspective, the Atom processor has enabled a highly desired expansion of its overall exposure in both [...]
The words like “information age”, “information technology”, “the one who has the information rules the world” have long since settled in our minds. Everyone knows that information is one of the most precious resources. Does information itself have any value? No, it doesn’t. Information is crucial in decision making. This is important. Right decision is [...]
One of the innovations in the Microsoft Windows 2000 and the NTFS 5.0 file system was the Encrypting File System (EFS) technology, which is designed to quickly encrypt files on the computer hard drive. NTFS by itself has built-in protection. However, as is frequently the case, it very quickly required additional security. The reason was [...]
These days we’re always hearing about the “information age,” “information technology,” and how “information rules the world.” We have come to feel that information is everything. But what does that mean, and is information in itself so important? Not completely. We need information to make decisions – that’s what is truly important. A proper decision [...]
IT is moving from being a point of differentiation for an organisation towards becoming a point of constraint. Old-style approaches to computing, looking at particular applications for specific areas, one application per server and platforms engineered for peak usage are beginning to look too costly and inflexible to meet today’s business needs. The home of [...]
Much of the discussion around modern IT still revolves around purely technical aspects of a given platform, leaving many business people in the dark as to what true value of a new technical architecture actually is. With businesses being run by process – not by technology – a new approach has to be taken: one [...]
