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Martin Banks

Martin Banks is a long-standing journalist, commentator and analyst covering IT and its impact on business since the very beginning of the PC revolution. Before that, he was covering the development of the semiconductor technologies and microprocessors that have made it all possible.

Articles by Martin Banks

Iceland’s tech clustering – diversity, equity and doing what’s good for business and staff This article is sponsored by:

Part 2 of our look at what is emerging out of Iceland’s adoption of clustering tech startups looks at three examples from the more human side of business – personnel management and health care. In the process, it also takes a look at the island’s increasingly positive approach to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Iceland’s tech clustering – a volcanic focus on fintech This article is sponsored by:

First part of a look at some of the IT ideas and developments coming out of a country of 375,000 souls that readily claims to be 1,000 km from anywhere. By using the clustering model – getting like- minded and complementary businesses together – it is getting to punch well above its weight.

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Onymos pitches a novel approach to cutting into 70% maintenance costs - and pokes open source in the eye in the process This article is sponsored by:

Onymos reckons it offers a way to cut back on the long-standing 'law’' that 70% of all IT budgets must be spent on maintaining existing applications, rather than innovating new ones.

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How Moore’s Law helps Pure Storage offer users a 'Pure Pays' option This article is sponsored by:

Pure Storage’s commitment to solid state data storage technologies means that its customers can take advantage of new pricing options, where it becomes possible that the vendor may pay for some of the service costs. This is because of the way semiconductor chips go down in price and energy consumption, but up in capacity.

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Avoiding Homo Stupidicus - federated design and AI could be an answer to more than nuclear fusion This article is sponsored by:

The UKAEA has given itself a 2040 target to get nuclear fusion energy at least to the state of being a real, workable prospect, and is now working with Intel, Dell and Cambridge University to develop the design environment that will be needed to make this dream a reality.

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As application moving becomes an everyday occurrence, Hashicorp helps to abstract away the pain of lift-and-shift This article is sponsored by:

Moving applications onto different resources in different locations as the variable needs of cost and performance arise, is fast becoming a de facto standard operation for most businesses. Finding the tools to do it however – to manage the complexity and mask the pain – is a task which Hashicorp aims to address directly.

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