Tony Lock

Security, privacy and data protection

By Tony Lock Many businesses today are faced with the challenge of rapidly fluctuating operating[...]

Data Centre Evolution

By Tony Lock Data centres and computer rooms are an important hub of many organisations,[...]

Cloud storage matters

The storage architecture you will need for a private cloud deployment will probably be very[...]

Big Data, Analytics and the Future of Data Centres

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – VMUG Meeting, Manchester February 12, 2013 Presenter(s)[...]

Consolidation in the cloud

As the feverish excitement of cloud hype becomes a practical challenge for you to solve,[...]

A Data Centre that takes care of itself

A DC that takes care of itself. Can you build it, do you want it?[...]

The data centre in 2020

By Tony Lock There has never been a clearer understanding of how quickly business is[...]

Email and collaboration options for MSPs

Cloud is a broad brush term that covers several different approaches to delivering IT services[...]

Taming the procurement elephant

The cost of supplying IT services inside businesses has never been more visible with considerable[...]

Email is so last century

By Tony Lock Over the course of the last year or two an assertion has[...]

Analytics and Big Data

By Tony Lock ‘Big Data’ is a hot topic receiving considerable attention from the marketing[...]

Why you need an interactive archive

Many organisations today only archive data when there is some external legislative driver forcing their[...]

IT Service Management and Business Requirements

By Tony Lock A couple of years before terms such as “Cloud”, “Big Data” and[...]

Big Data and Analytics

Results of a web survey illustrate the state of business information and analytics today. Just[...]

Data Entry and Device Control

By Tony Lock When computers were first created, all attention was centred on getting answers[...]

Lack of Understanding inhibits adoption of Big Data

By Tony Lock Read any IT publication, online or hard copy, and it is hard[...]

Datacentre in a box – Something for everyone?

CIOs have a tough job delivering an expanding range of services to ever more demanding[...]

The Big Data Revolution

Big Data suffers misuse but at its heart is really about getting more value from[...]

What should CIOs be demanding of Storage Vendors?

In most organisations the acquisition of storage and its associated management tools was, until recently,[...]

Personal Use of a Windows Tablet in Business – It’s ready for operational use

There is no doubt that “Tablet” devices and “Slates” are attracting a lot of attention[...]

The Rise of User Centric IT – Is the consumerisation of IT a benefit to anyone?

There is a long history of end users wanting, or ‘needing’, to have ‘different’ tools[...]

Private Cloud and Data Centre Evolution

Will every data centre become a cloud? As nearly everyone working in IT understands, things[...]

Data fragmentation challenges restrict business flexibility

Business must be ready to respond to rapidly changing market conditions. For any organisation to[...]

Siloed approach to IT security increases business risk

It is said that the technology at the heart of IT changes at a bewildering[...]