Reduced IT budgets are a headache for managers, but also present an incentive to identify obvious targets for improvements and cost reductions that help build momentum for larger initiatives. A recent article in McKinsey Quarterly suggests a three phased approach to IT transformation: Immediate Cleanup, Reducing Complexity, and finally, Business Innovation. There are a multitude [...]
Information is the life-blood of your organization: the sensitive customer records, the trade secrets, the executive briefing materials. Once upon a time this data would be relatively safe because it lived on a central server or mainframe, but now it is probably on a workstation or notebook. That mobility makes your business more flexible and [...]
What is Novell On-demand Training?
On-demand Training provides a convenient and flexible delivery method that is available whenever and wherever you are available. Accessible online anytime and anywhere a high-speed broadband Internet connection is available, this is the perfect option if you don’t have the time or budget for onsite or even scheduled online classroom training. [...]
Economic downturns have a tendency to accelerate emerging technologies, boost the adoption of effective solutions, and punish solutions that are not cost-competitive or are out of sync with industry trends. So says a recent IDC study, which finds that Linux users are clearly satisfied about their choice to deploy Linux, and during trying economic times, [...]
Kent Erickson serves as the Global Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Workgroup Solutions business unit at Novell. He is responsible for the development of all products that make up Novell’s collaboration solutions, including Novell Open Enterprise Server, Novell GroupWise and Novell Teaming + Conferencing. Mr. Erickson visited Dublin recently and outlined to [...]
As the number of linux systems proliferate within Irish IT departments, Securelinx is regularly asked for advice on enterprise class management tools that specifically support Linux/Unix administration. Securelinx recommends a number of best in class vendor products for areas such as Patch Management and Monitoring, and now with the availability of Novell’s Privileged [...]
Jim Whitehurst, the CEO of Red Hat was interviewed recently by the Financial Times He reflected that the current challenging market environment is forcing companies to pay more attention to operating costs and in turn favour Linux operating systems and other open source software. As Mr Whitehurst puts it:
“As I’ve traveled to meet customers, [...]
Open Source Management company op5 expands into Ireland – Partners with Irish enterprise IT solutions company SecureLinx
Stockholm, December 18 2008 – Leading Open Source Management Company op5 partners with Irish enterprise IT solutions company SecureLinx. The new partnership is the latest move by op5 to expand its international channel business, which has grown with several [...]
Securelinx is pleased to confirm its membership as a Professional Partner in the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Partner Program (”VIP”). With both VMware Sales and Technical professional accreditations achieved within the organisation, Securelinx staff are ideally placed to advise and guide virtualisation choices within this growing IT solutions area.
Commenting on the partnership program, Brian Farrell Securelinx [...]
WALTHAM, Mass.— 25 Feb 2008 Novell today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire PlateSpin Ltd. The acquisition will deliver a full solution stack with a powerful virtualization platform and a best-in-class heterogeneous management solution to solve many of the data center challenges that customers face today including; relocation, provisioning, protection [...]
