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That’s a moot point for a hosting company obviously - if the company HAS infrastructure of course it will boast about it, if not, don’t expect a detailed explanation of the Data Centre facilities on their web site.
But what about web applications and business or community web sites?
Would it foster more trust if you published […]

HP have made big announcements over the past few weeks about consolidating their many data centres and operational locations into a far smaller number. One has to wonder why HP, among others, are centralising all their infrastructure?
Clearly it makes financial sense to reduce overhead while maintaining or improving performance - which is the goal of […]

Gartner reports (no link, sorry, read it on REAL paper!) that the role of the CIO is to change from being predominantly internal in focus to a more external outlook, challenged with helping company competitiveness and growth.
The report peaked MY interest because it 2 of the technologies it mentions that will be key in 2006 […]

There’s been lots of talk in Bubble 1.0 and Bubble 2.0 (that’s now!) about SaaS : Software as a Service (i.e salesforce.com, Microsoft Live), and it seems now that business, software and infrastructure have caught up with the IDEA of it, SaaS companies are becoming successful.
I came across an article by Nicolas Carr (of ‘Does […]