itica blog

The Itica Blog is used by our consultants to share their views on current issues.

Our objective is to be informative, thought provoking and challenging, if we are not, or if you disagree with us, please let us know!

The Blogs cover each of our practice areas and are updated on a regular basis, so please bookmark the ones you find interesting.

 

September 2009

Moving workload around the cloud
September 2009


There has been a lot of virtualisation vendor marketing directed towards persuading everyone that connecting internal and external data centre “clouds” together using a new term “federation” is the thing to be doing.  If we believe what is being said it will be very easy to move your application workload around the “cloud” between internal and external resources while keeping the performance within your SLAs.

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IT & HR – On the same page?
September 2009


The CIPD 2009 Learning and Development survey includes some worrying results concerning the roll out of new IT systems and the impact on people.

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Economic indicators – a personal view
September 2009


The radio news comes into earshot on a busy morning – “the latest economic indicators are showing improved business confidence…” You wait for more details of how this is measured or which key group have been surveyed but nothing….  We are left hanging on, wondering where this revelation comes from!?!  It’s obviously some kind of special knowledge that we mere mortals (cogs in the economy) are not party to! More…


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