Tony Lock

Private Cloud and IT Service Delivery

The impacts on budgets, reporting and IT delivery models. When economic times are hard there[...]

Private Cloud Forecast – Sunny or Stormy times ahead for CIOs?

Businesses are still operating under enormous economic pressure and, as would be expected, this continues[...]

The infrastructure and management implications of Desktop Virtualisation

Desktops are now visibly mission critical Desktop Virtualisation is a topic that has enjoyed considerable[...]

Seven enablers of effective disaster recovery for SMEs

By Tony Lock In a nutshell: Recent research carried out by Freeform Dynamics identified seven[...]

Unified Infrastructure Management

Wonderful in theory, but few have it available Going back, say, five or ten years,[...]

Delivering better services with integrated management

What’s in it for IT professionals? When systems are implemented and managed in isolation, it[...]

Conducting the trio, not orchestrating a symphony

Tunes to get you started ’Dynamic workload management’ and ’private cloud’ are just two of[...]

IT Infrastructure Management Must Move with the Times

The technologies and solutions used in the IT infrastructure have changed dramatically over the years,[...]

Key points to highlight when selling storage

Organisations of all shapes and sizes are struggling to deal with the rapid growth of[...]

Stop fighting fires and start managing change

It’s treating the root cause of rigidity that really matters For most of the past[...]

SaaS based Email and Office Productivity

Over the course of many months there has been considerable coverage of ‘Cloud’ based office[...]

Storage Through the Looking Glass

Talk of storage technology makes business people yawn, but the state of the storage infrastructure[...]

Disaster Recovery in European SMBs

By Tony Lock, Martha Bennett and Dale Vile KEY POINTS The term ‘disaster recovery’ is[...]

IT is the least of the problems – but can it improve business change?

A lot of time and column inches have been spent over the years looking at[...]

Expert Clinic – Revamp the network to cope with explosion in mobile kit

Ethernet was originally conceived of as being used by networks consisting of limited numbers of[...]

Expert Clinic – Mixing network traffic types on Ethernet

For much of the past decade the “networking” that connects users to their applications and[...]

User Virtualization

The primary driver of today’s IT leaders is to enable better business management and execution,[...]

Expert Clinic – Cumulo Ethernet: Building Ethernet cloud fabrics

One subject that is getting plenty of attention in IT circles is “Cloud” although, truth[...]

The fog of software licensing: dissatisfaction reigns – even in clouds

There are some things in life that you just have to get on with, and[...]

The Ethernet traffic mix-up