Tony Lock

2019 – The war between the business and IT is fake news

Tony Lock 11 December 2019 No Comments

Some writers love a battle – or at least, the idea of one. So they exaggerate perfectly normal differences of opinion, spinning debates into fierce zero-sum conflicts where there can…

The pain of intermittent problems

Tony Lock 10 October 2019 No Comments

Can data centres handle sporadic faults?

Storage Investment Woes

Tony Lock 17 September 2019 No Comments

Analyst Blog

Are you ready for NVMe?

Tony Lock 17 September 2019 No Comments

Analyst Blog IT has always been hit by marketing waves that speak of new systems that will revolutionize the way everything works. Well, in IT as in real life revolutions…

Refresh your thinking

Tony Lock 12 August 2019 No Comments

You've got a platform problem

New financing models target IT’s acquisition challenges

Tony Lock 12 August 2019 No Comments

Analyst opinion The availability of funding – or rather, the lack of it – is a significant challenge for most IT departments, most of the time. Given the clear restrictions…

Data Centre Evolution

Tony Lock 14 June 2019 No Comments

Will HCI change how we design and build core IT systems? The way we build data centre systems is always in a state of flux. In theory, it is dictated…

The mainframe returns – as a platform for large-scale Linux

Tony Lock 15 November 2018 No Comments

Analyst opinion There are several ways to build large scale Linux server environments, with x86 and public cloud being obvious ones. But there’s another option too, as I reminded myself…

Operational Feedback and People

Tony Lock 13 November 2018 No Comments

The overlooked element of DevOps

Millennial versus Mature – who’s the real IT security risk?

Tony Lock 18 July 2018 No Comments

Analyst opinion Passwords have been the mainstay for securing applications, devices and the data they hold, pretty much ever since IT was invented. It’s an approach that has always had…

Data Centre monitoring is not up to the job

Tony Lock 20 June 2018 No Comments

What will it take to get investment? There is a quote that almost everyone working in a management role will recognise: “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”.…

Is your data centre ready for automation?

Tony Lock 21 February 2018 No Comments

SDDC could be part of the answer, if only we can get there

Information management is going mainstream – at last!

Tony Lock 29 January 2018 No Comments

Analyst opinion Some assumptions have been held by IT pros for so long that they have almost become articles of faith. One of these is the idea that content management,…

Is Hybrid Computing Taking Place?

Tony Lock 21 November 2017 No Comments

Research reveals the reality of hybrid computing

Datacentre Power and Cooling – Essential but frequently underperforming

Tony Lock 21 September 2017 No Comments

Research reveals the secrets of essential DC Infrastructure There are very few organisations now where the demands and expectations placed on IT services don’t increase daily. This creates great pressure…

Datacentre realities in the digital age

Tony Lock 20 August 2017 No Comments

How well are you keeping up with escalating business demands? A recent survey of 320 European organisations not surprisingly confirmed that most critical business operations nowadays depend on IT, which…

Datacentre facilities in the spotlight

Tony Lock 13 August 2017 No Comments

How strong are the foundations supporting your IT infrastructure? Facilities infrastructure, which includes power management, is still seen as a complex and challenging subject in many datacentres and so is…

Power and the 24×7 imperative

Tony Lock 6 August 2017 No Comments

What’s required to ensure business continuity in the datacentre? Modern businesses depend on IT. As a result, more and more core IT systems need to run 24×7, which places considerable…

IT service delivery models

Tony Lock 30 July 2017 No Comments

Will the cloud make your datacentre redundant? With many organisations under pressure and IT teams struggling at times to keep pace with fast-moving business requirements, some experts would have you…

Datacentre power management

Tony Lock 23 July 2017 No Comments

Does your approach need a rethink? Effective and efficient management of power within the datacentre is essential to IT service delivery in a rapidly changing business environment. A recent survey…

Datacentre Strategy and Evolution

Tony Lock 17 July 2017 No Comments

Despite the advent to cloud computing the datacentre remains central to corporate IT. But with demands continuing to escalate, how do you ensure your infrastructure is powered robustly and efficiently?

The Data Centre and Cloud – What’s Going On?

Tony Lock 21 May 2017 No Comments

A look at recent developments in the delivery of IT Services For much of the past decade, many vendors and researchers suggested that cloud would become the only sensible model…

IT pros speak about frustration with AFA vendors

Tony Lock 8 March 2017 No Comments

As part of a recent survey we asked a panel of IT professionals to give us some thoughts on a hot area in the storage world but with a slightly…

The Green Data Centre – Myth or Reality

Tony Lock 3 March 2017 No Comments

Every few years, core IT infrastructure issues surge into visibility on the corporate radar. Often, they are then energetically discussed for a while, before drifting away into the background as…