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London Bourse is Falling Down – Time to Analyze Its Structure?
February 25, 2011 | Be the first to comment! This morning’s news was rife with accounts of the London Stock Exchange Group being forced to halt trading on its main market due to a technical fault in its barely two-week-old MilleniumIT trading system. This is yet another example of the need for pre-deployment analysis of structural quality. An average mission …Read More
Reduce Your Software’s Carbon Footprint
December 21, 2010 | Be the first to comment! As you read this, thousands of data centers across the country are using up something around 1.5% of US electricity consumption. That number is projected to increase by 70% according to a recent congressional report. There’s quite a lot of coverage about software that helps manage power use when computers …Read More
Quantifying Technical Debt: Beware of Your Assumptions
October 14, 2010 | Be the first to comment! Our colleagues at Gartner have made a little bit of a stir in the media with their findings on IT debt. Almost every industry pub, and some bloggers, have opined by this point. Here is a stack containing some of the recent articles and posts on the topic: Computerworld, by Mitch …Read More
The iPhone is Changing the Face of IT
August 2, 2010 | 3 Comments We’ve been reading quite a bit the last few weeks about iPhone related issues that have had an impact on the security (Citi) and stability (AT&T) of customer data. Beyond the current arms race in the media to see who can write more frequently about Apple, there may actually be …Read More