Category Archives: Infrastructure & Platforms
Software Defined Networking (SDN) continues to move forwards
By Charles Brett and Tony Lock During an Analyst Briefing at the IBM Development Laboratory[...]
How much is a mobile data gigabyte?
By Charles Brett A gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes. Computer science tells us this is so.[...]
Could what happened to flight engineers apply to data storage and its management?
By Charles Brett Flight engineers in cockpits began to disappear in the 1980s as aircraft[...]
The Business Value of Data Protection
By Tony Lock The data held in every business is valuable and in the current[...]
The DC you have to the DC you need
Your data centres are stuck in a rut. While 90 per cent have had an[...]
Device Proliferation and Data Fragmentation
By Tony Lock Bring your own device (BYOD) continues to attract considerable attention, but the[...]
The SaaS opportunity for SMBs
By Dale Vile Software as a Service (SaaS) is potentially a great fit for small[...]
Clouds and the Data Centre weather forecast
By Tony Lock Enterprise Data Centres are complex collections of systems acquired over long spans[...]
Unravelling the SMB SaaS opportunity for resellers
By Dale Vile SMBs and cloud computing are a match made in heaven. That’s the[...]
The Data Fragmentation Challenge
By Tony Lock Every IT professional is acutely conscious of the rapid rate at which[...]
Data fragmentation challenges for CIOs
By Tony Lock A recent survey by Freeform Dynamics confirmed that access to accurate information[...]
SMBs are tumbling into the cloud? Oh get real
By Dale Vile This article was originally published for the channel. SMBs are now turning[...]
The End User Security Jigsaw
Organisations of all sizes are trying to understand the security implications of mobile working, device[...]
The Data Protection Imperative
In this short paper, we spell out why the time has come to adopt a[...]
Data Protection as a Business Enabler
While the importance of business information is almost universally recognised, few organisations have enjoyed either[...]
All about OpenStack
Proprietary cloud threatens lock-in, higher cost and application silos. There is an alternative: OpenStack is[...]
Virtualisation where are my savings?
Three years ago you listened to vendors telling you how much we would all save[...]
Storage Anywhere and Everywhere
With more departmental applications, collaboration and sharing environments, and even cloud-based services, with access via[...]