Electronic filing, Paperless Office… no, wait, come back! I’ve blogged previously about the benefits of electronic versus paper documents in terms of risk, disaster recovery, searchability etc., but what might appear to be a no-brainer turns out to be a fiendish maze beset by towering hurdles and gaping trap-doors.
Things are afoot. Chris Huhne wants us all to think more about where we buy our power from (with an emphasis on buy less, or it will cost you more in the long term) and BP's Top Cat is having to run away to Russia (or so it would seem), even after trying to put right the wrongs.
The credit crunch and subsequent recession has put huge pressure on budgets. Any new initiative or project needs to have a compelling business case with a quick return on investment to gain approval. This is a fact of life across the whole IT sector - including when it comes to 'Green IT' projects which are an increasingly important part of corporate IT strategies.
There isn’t a day goes by when I don’t have a call from one solutions provider or another telling me how great virtualisation is and how we should all be doing it for a number of reasons. We as a firm embraced the technology a number of years ago consolidating what was becoming a large data centre down to a relatively small number of physical, very efficient, machines.
In recent years, with the global financial crisis and recession biting, there was a question mark as to whether businesses would give up any focus on Green initiatives and focus on the hard-nosed business of income and costs instead. However, while many organisations will have been consciously watching costs and spending less than when times were better, the anticipated flight from environmental concerns does not seem to have materialised. Why?
The crystal balls were out last week as the theme of this year’s ILTA (International Legal Technology Association) one day conference in London was Foresight 20:20. Who better to open the conference than forward-looking avowed Mac user and A&O Senior Partner David Morley.
Electronic filing, Paperless Office… no, wait, come back! I’ve blogged previously about the benefits of electronic versus paper documents in terms of risk, disaster recovery, searchability etc., but what might appear to be a no-brainer turns out to be a fiendish maze beset by towering hurdles and gaping trap-doors. 
Things are afoot. Chris Huhne wants us all to think more about where we buy our power from (with an emphasis on buy less, or it will cost you more in the long term) and BP's Top Cat is having to run away to Russia (or so it would seem), even after trying to put right the wrongs.
The credit crunch and subsequent recession has put huge pressure on budgets. Any new initiative or project needs to have a compelling business case with a quick return on investment to gain approval. This is a fact of life across the whole IT sector - including when it comes to 'Green IT' projects which are an increasingly important part of corporate IT strategies. 
Unless the new Con-Dem coalition decide to abolish it, the 
There isn’t a day goes by when I don’t have a call from one solutions provider or another telling me how great virtualisation is and how we should all be doing it for a number of reasons. We as a firm embraced the technology a number of years ago consolidating what was becoming a large data centre down to a relatively small number of physical, very efficient, machines.