Tony Lock

Software Defined Networking (SDN) continues to move forwards

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By Charles Brett and Tony Lock During an Analyst Briefing at the IBM Development Laboratory in Bucharest, a series of IBM executives took invited technology analysts through its thinking about…

The Business Value of Data Protection

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By Tony Lock The data held in every business is valuable and in the current economic climate every organisation is looking to exploit as much as possible the information it…

The DC you have to the DC you need

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Your data centres are stuck in a rut. While 90 per cent have had an upgrade in the last three years, the data centre you have isn’t the data centre…

Device Proliferation and Data Fragmentation

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By Tony Lock Bring your own device (BYOD) continues to attract considerable attention, but the proliferation of machines now being used in businesses large and small is exacerbating the problem…

Clouds and the Data Centre weather forecast

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By Tony Lock Enterprise Data Centres are complex collections of systems acquired over long spans of time, after being assembled piece by piece. Thus Data Centres change slowly over time,…

The Data Fragmentation Challenge

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By Tony Lock Every IT professional is acutely conscious of the rapid rate at which business data is being created via core enterprise applications and office productivity tools, and ingested…

Data fragmentation challenges for CIOs

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By Tony Lock A recent survey by Freeform Dynamics confirmed that access to accurate information is widely recognised as very important to businesses, especially in terms of exploiting data rapidly…

Infrastructure Consolidation (2)

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Infrastructure Consolidation (1)

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Storage Provisioning

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Pre-configured Infrastructure

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Data Protection as a Business Enabler

Tony Lock 25 July 2013 No Comments

While the importance of business information is almost universally recognised, few organisations have enjoyed either the time or the resources required to ensure that the data they store across an…

Forget Big Data – No one is panning for gold

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By Tony Lock CIOs have been subjected to the combined efforts of a significant proportion of the IT vendor community shouting about ‘Big Data’ for over two years. The wave…

Managing expanding business – Critical Linux workloads

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Evidence from users in the real world shows that for large workloads, the mainframe offers power, security, administration licensing and management benefits – but, in an x86 world, many IT…

DCIM and Energy Management

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By Tony Lock Over several decades IT management has focussed almost exclusively on keeping servers running. It is only in the last few years that much attention has been paid…

Speeding up ‘Change’

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By Tony Lock For much of the last decade ‘IT’ has become something of a pantomime villain, frequently held responsible as the inhibitor holding back business. But our research shows…

Empowering your users the ‘right way’

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By Tony Lock Many organisations say their people are among the most valuable assets they have. Whilst this statement is entirely accurate, providing the best working conditions and tools that…

Windows Server 2012

Tony Lock 7 May 2013 No Comments

Windows Server 2012 is a big bet for Microsoft, and is a major step forward as releases go. It brings together wide-ranging new capability and functional improvements. But how ready…

Security, privacy and data protection

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By Tony Lock Many businesses today are faced with the challenge of rapidly fluctuating operating conditions. Beyond this, organisations are becoming ever more dependent on the data and information they…

Data Centre Evolution

Tony Lock 9 April 2013 No Comments

By Tony Lock Data centres and computer rooms are an important hub of many organisations, directly supporting many important business processes. As business needs evolve and technology advances most organisations…

Cloud storage matters

Tony Lock 26 February 2013 No Comments

The storage architecture you will need for a private cloud deployment will probably be very different to what you have today. So what level of performance, and what attributes does…

Big Data, Analytics and the Future of Data Centres

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Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – VMUG Meeting, Manchester February 12, 2013 Presenter(s) – Tony Lock Big data and analytics from Freeform Dynamics To view on slideshare…

Consolidation in the cloud

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As the feverish excitement of cloud hype becomes a practical challenge for you to solve, you strive to know whether private cloud delivers what it promises and whether it can…

A Data Centre that takes care of itself

Tony Lock 23 January 2013 No Comments

A DC that takes care of itself. Can you build it, do you want it? This webcast examines how to build a data centre and maintain it throughout its life…