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End-to-end service assurance

It may not always seem like it, but wherever IT is responsible for providing applications[...]

The how and why of virtualising core business applications

When it come to virtualisation and private cloud, it seems that IT is happy to[...]

Windows 7 roll out: learning from the experts

So what’s involved in a large scale migration of Windows 7? Well, as this webcast[...]

Time to get serious about managing security

Do you know what’s running in your network? In this time of ever increasing security[...]

Marketing, selling and listening: essential elements of the IT skills set

There’s nothing new in the concept of IT marketing or selling itself to the business,[...]

The Co-operative on virtualisation & Windows 7

Windows 7 migration is not just about upgrading the operating system. In this webcast we[...]

Cloud Connectivity

By Andrew Buss KEY POINTS Connectivity is not widely perceived to be a major barrier[...]

Does Office 365 keep its promises?

Running your email and office applications in the cloud is not a new idea; Google[...]

Royal Mail opens the kimono once more

Is it possible to migrate a large scale email environment to the cloud and keep[...]

Cloud today, tomorrow, not yet

Given all the hype and conjecture recently, we could be forgiven for thinking that we[...]

Licensing in the virtual age

By Andrew Buss Having sat through countless vendor cloud pitches, there seems to be an[...]

Cloud and Storage

By Tony Lock The topic of “Cloud” has not escaped the attention of anyone in[...]

The other enterprise desktop

There are few topics in the IT industry that are more divisive than the option[...]

Rationalising software licencing in the virtual age

It was only a few weeks ago that we raised the topic of software licencing[...]

The Royal Mail moves to the cloud

Private cloud is a nice theory, but what does it translate to in practice when[...]

Cloud Service Categories

There are many ways to classify cloud service offerings. The most basic is to relate[...]

The workload challenge

Today, IT Infrastructure is evolving at a tremendous pace. The Mainframe computer, now often referred[...]

Decision criteria for open source and proprietary software

The selection of operating systems was once one of the major decisions IT managers had[...]

Visualisation into action

Do you have lots of data but find it difficult to work out what it[...]

Exploiting the mainframe for new workload requirements

IT architects and CIOs have a number of factors to take into consideration when it[...]

PaaS potential and practicality: This is a hype-free zone

One of the advantages of using Platform as a Service (PaaS) to develop and deploy[...]

RSA hack demonstrates need for proactive security and multi-layer protection

The recent news that RSA Security suffered a security attack and breach that resulted in[...]

Can telephony and IT work together?

Terms such as ‘network convergence’ and ‘unified comms’ have been used to describe the coming[...]

Trust and security in the cloud

By Andrew Buss & Dale Vile KEY FINDINGS Many companies could do much better when[...]