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What outcome do the Supervisors really want for Banks?

Recent supervision especially for financial services but also in how, for example, Sarbanes Oxley has matured is looking for outcome based results that enable a more individual risk assessment and management program for end users.
As far as Banks are concerned, this drive for outcome based interpretation of compliant performance [...] Continue Reading…

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Green ICT and flawed science

Scientists dealt a blow to their climate change crusade with a lack of rigour in designing proof for their hypothesis. The controversy was similar I thought to the wide credibility gaps that exist between ICT as an industry and its claims of ROI or benefit to its purchasers. This [...] Continue Reading…

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Common virtualisation security risks and mitigation advice

According to Gartner, 60 percent of virtualised servers will be less secure than the physical servers they replace by the end of 2012,  Gartner expects this figure to fall to 30 percent by the end of 2015.
Gartner also note that at the end of 2009, 18 percent of enterprise [...] Continue Reading…

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Virtualisation and sustainability - 2010

Virtualisation offers efficient dynamic provisioning, high levels of availability, resilience and business continuity.

Pre-virtualisation an average server utilization figure was 10% – in other words 90% server redundancy adding no value

Virtualisation significantly helps to reduce energy consumption, an organisations carbon footprint, and  running costs

Virtualisation market is growing rapidly especially SMB. [...] Continue Reading…

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