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Infrastructure convergence – The two sides of the coin

Let’s be fair – IT isn’t the only industry fraught with jargon, but it can[...]

Time to stop taking water for granted

Every day in recent months, the water level in our local lake has been dropping.[...]

Are your Server Estate Policies Fully Mature?

You know what happens: everyone in marketing focuses on the processor speeds, the cache size,[...]

Monitoring and managing power consumption

It’s certainly true from our research that when it comes to servers, power consumption doesn’t[...]

Is there any such thing as ‘The Business’?

A seasoned CIO of a large multinational once remarked: “All of these vendors keep telling[...]

Software apps and the server room – Does virtualization just deal with ‘everything’?

One of the curses of the IT industry is the ease with which we can[...]

Are packaged applications becoming less relevant?

The imminent death of traditional packaged applications for dealing with ERP, CRM and other core[...]

Poll Results – Stuff you run vs stuff you run it on

Thanks to everyone who took part in our latest mini-poll, which teased out some insights[...]

Towards dynamic systems management methodologies

I do take my hat off to the people who first put together the IT[...]

Drivers for server change – What do you mean, saving money is not at the top?

A major question faced in every organisation concerns compelling events that necessitate changes. What is[...]

Is the server layer just a commodity?

It’s been a while since Nicholas Carr wrote his polemic ‘Does IT matter?’ which documented[...]

The decentralisation effect

A recent poll spawned some very interesting responses. We asked you where you keep your[...]

What does a server environment look like anyway?

Stock photo companies have got a lot to answer for. For most people, the phrase[...]

Who does what in the server room?

The “architectures” deployed in server rooms are beginning to change dramatically. Organisations are seeking to[...]

A practical guide to deploying green IT

Audience – ICAEW members/subscribers Occasion – ICAEW conference 28 October 2009 Presenter – David Tebbutt[...]

PC Refresh Equals PC Disposal

We asked what drives you to refresh or replace your PC and laptop estates and[...]

Anatomy of an IT leader: From master to orchestrator

One of the recurring debates in the IT industry is around how the role of[...]

Keep a clear head on environmental issues

Did you see the Act On CO2 quango’s ’bedtime stories’ advertisement? It tells children that[...]

Frighten the kids, or encourage the grown-ups?

Have you seen the Act On CO2 ’bedtime stories’ advertisement that our dear government has[...]

Storage Virtualisation – the lie of the land

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Try these beans: Business Service Management

In recent weeks we’ve received plenty of meaty responses in roughly equal measures (positive and[...]

Online Information will keep you up to date

Well, the Online Information conference is almost upon us. It’s a great chance for information[...]

Remind me what we’re doing again? Service management round up

Over the past few weeks that we’ve been writing about service management, it’s become very[...]

The Bathtub Curve and other over-simplistic ideas

Every now and then, a certain model or other seems to have direct relevance to[...]