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[...]