So many devices, so little policy
Live today So what are you waiting for?
Every one of your users has a computer at home, maybe a laptop, definitely a phone, and likes to log in from someone else's computer from time to time. They're carrying your data around, but often not your security policy.
You know how hard it is to match policy form device to device, location to location. If only it were …
So many devices, so little policy
So what are you waiting for? Matey
Every one of your users has a computer at home, maybe a laptop, definitely a phone, and likes to log in from someone else's computer from time to time. They're carrying your data around, but often not your security policy.
You know how hard it is to match policy form device to device, location to location. If only it were …
Agility without anxiety
Live today Does deliver early, deliver often equal deliver badly?
Some Reg readers think so. This is what a few of you tell us about agile development: "Often of a lower standard and the system will inevitably be less reliable". "If you don't have good people, you're screwed". "It leads to several wheels being reinvented in disparate ways".
Ouch.
Not everyone thinks it equals "deliver badly …
Agility without anxiety
Does deliver early, deliver often equal deliver badly?
Some Reg readers think so. This is what a few of you tell us about agile development: "Often of a lower standard and the system will inevitably be less reliable". "If you don't have good people, you're screwed". "It leads to several wheels being reinvented in disparate ways".
Ouch.
Not everyone thinks it equals "deliver badly …
So many devices, so little policy
Live event So what are you waiting for?
Every one of your users has a computer at home, maybe a laptop, definitely a phone, and likes to log in from someone else's computer from time to time. They're carrying your data around, but often not your security policy.
You know how hard it is to match policy form device to device, location to location. If only it were …
Agility without anxiety
Live event Does deliver early, deliver often equal deliver badly?
Some Reg readers think so. This is what a few of you tell us about agile development: "Often of a lower standard and the system will inevitably be less reliable". "If you don't have good people, you're screwed". "It leads to several wheels being reinvented in disparate ways".
Ouch.
Not everyone thinks it equals "deliver badly …
BPM today, tomorrow and beyond
Broadcast Embrace and evolve
Are you tough enough to take on Business Process Management (BPM) and win? Someone has to. It has never been more important to handle workflow efficiently.
But it has never been more tricky: different types of information, acquired in different locations, for different business needs, need to be integrated into the process. You …
Unilever revamps IT for agility
And tells us how it’s getting on
On the 11th of July at 10:30am we’re broadcasting live with Garry Meaburn, the operations effectiveness and tooling manager at Unilever, dishing out practical tips on how to build a dynamic IT operation using private cloud principles. Garry's currently a good way through this sizable project.
The Register's Lucy Sherriff is the …
Scaling the heights of private cloud
Infographic Take me, take me to the top
We’ve done it again. Another couple of slices through our Private Cloud research delivered in stunning Technicolor gloryvision.
For this beauty, click the pic to see it (PDF), we’ve zoomed in on the route from virtualisation to private cloud, showing adoption, how challenges are tackled, the progress made by your peers. And the …
Realising the benefits of cloud for mobile workers
Vid Like it or not, it's here
Even today, many enterprise users are unsure about cloud computing. They don't understand what it means, and they think that it's mere hype. And yet mobile devices primed for the cloud are making their way into the enterprise, whether IT departments like it or not.
Understanding how the cloud works, and what it can offer mobile …
This Old Box. And that Old Box. And that one. All of them, in fact
eBook Collected strip-down reading that won't embarrass
While your other half might be perusing the latest bonk buster on the beach this summer, you might want something that's not going to leave you wriggling with embarrassment and wishing you’d packed a bigger towel.
Well, you'll be pleased to hear that El Reg has collected our entire output of our This Old Box strand and …
Office 365 in moving pictures
Site news Man the whiteboards
Check this out, a short whiteboard-style animation by our art guy Andy, for an Office 365 campaign we are running with Microsoft.
Of course, all you IT pros know the cloud drill, and are wedded to text. But the next time your business manager asks you what this Software-as-a-Service malarkey is all about, you can show them this …
The Private Cloud outlook
Visual snapshot of Reg hive mind
We set the designer's beret to a jaunty angle and told him to tell us a little visual story, based on the information you shared with us in this report, based on reader research about private cloud.
The result is what many call an infographic. We are not so rash.
Check out our visual snapshot (PDF) of the Private Cloud outlook …
Barclays Online Offline again
You can take it to the bank. In fact you'll have to
Barclays Online banking has suffered its second weekday working-hours outage in a matter of days, offering only intermittent service for most of this morning according to Register readers and throwing a complete double-six at lunchtime today.
"Live Help" folk on the Barclays site noted that: "We are aware that our online …
Does private cloud follow virtualisation?
Consolidation or construction
A general assumption is often made that private cloud is the next logical step after virtualisation. But is this really the case?
Many people got into x86 server virtualisation as part of their efforts to simplify and consolidate their application and hardware landscape. The motivation was primarily to cut costs and overheads …
Office 365 in the real world
Live today The Devil, and much of the goodness, is in the detail
Today at 11am BST The Register’s Lucy Sheriff will be joined by Julian Elve, of The Schools Network, to talk about his recent Office 365 migration.
Julian is responsible for an environment that you might classify as ‘normal’ enough for generic SaaS services and distributed enough to see serious benefits from cloud based …
Office 365 in the real world
The Devil, and much of the goodness, is in the detail
On the 3 May at 11am BST The Register’s Lucy Sheriff will be joined by Julian Elve, of The Schools Network, to talk about his recent Office 365 migration.
Julian’s responsible for an environment that you might classify as ‘normal’ enough for generic SaaS services and distributed enough to see serious benefits from cloud based …
IT Department seeks clowns and jugglers
It's a circus out there
Working in IT can sometimes feel like working in a circus. You're expected to juggle the priorities of the business, often based on who shouts loudest or who has the most clout. And you’ve got to walk the tightrope of budget management with your business, IT vendors and the inevitable consultants telling you to deliver more with …
