Solutions Magazine

"The most successful companies are also those having the best  networks and telecom infrastructures "Bruno Durand, Vice President South

Europe, Juniper Networks. The network specialist conducted a survey with 300 European ICT Managers amongst which 75% believe that  network quality and commercial success are linked.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers introduces the concept of IAAS -Infrastructure as a Service. Priority is given to the choice of infrastructure model. Recession. Need to reduce
costs. But how, when, as recalled by Gartner, 80% of the budget is allocated to maintain the activity? Cut the 20%?

Tempting. The irony is that by reducing investment, the ability to streamline and control existing infrastructure and operating costs decrease. However, as seen in
recent economic crisis, companies that emerge are precisely those who continue to innovate ...

The Belgian IT consultant is more faithful.
He stays much longer with his current employer than its European colleagues, said Coleman Parkes in a study (825 consultants interviewed in Europe) on behalf of Avanade.
The Belgian consultant works average 9.9 years of service with the same employer, while the European average lies at 7.4 years. Our northern neighbors ,for their part,areless faithful: Dutchman remains on average 5.3 years with the same organization.

Tous les moyens pour réduire les coûts sont bons. Ainsi, le fait d’encourager les salariés
à utiliser leur PC portable privé. Et, ce faisant, espérer réduire certains coûts de maintenance…

We keep on repeating: the man is the first source of vulnerability of any
information system. The analysis conducted by blogger Robert Graham
on 20 000 passwords which were stolen and published following the hacking of the site phpbb.com is proving this once again.

All means to reduce costs are welcome. And also the fact to encourage employees to use their private laptop. And by doing this, hope to reduce some maintenance costs ...

Virtualization has become the most popular ecological initiative estimates
Enterprise Management Associates in a study conducted in September 2008.
The firm also revealed that mastering consumption of servers is the method providing the best return on investment, with savings of about 14% ...

 

According to APC, the system design is more important than the choice of power and cooling equipment.
  
Eco-efficiency? A matter of concept!
The power consumption of a system is NOT determined by the effectiveness of its different components! The main approach to reduce consumption is NOT to look at the effectiveness of these components!
 

If the economical climat is favorable and according to estimations of the CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), European companies will need 250.000 ITers within two years
whereas only 180 000 specialists will be available.

Worse even! Between now and 2015 the annual need of IT professionals will raise up to 129 000 when the offer is in free fall and will only have 51.000 available specialists.

The Open Source is from now on in the middle of any information system. Better, it becomes the backbone of the pre-owned softwares, claims Forrester Research. 72% of the questioned companies are conscious that the pre-owned software publishers integrate more and more Open Source bricks in their commercial products - in some cases, this is the reason why it enters the company. If 39% of the companies already combine open and pre-owned softwares, 32% finally prefer a purely Open Source environment.