Category Archives: Infrastructure & Platforms
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[...]
The Data Centre Today and Tomorrow
By Freeform Dynamics Our analysts recently took part in an expert clinic looking at some[...]
Forget Big Data – No one is panning for gold
By Tony Lock CIOs have been subjected to the combined efforts of a significant proportion[...]
Raising your game with Software as a Service
Cloud computing, and Software as a Service (SaaS) in particular, can in theory deliver a[...]
’Big Data changes EVERYTHING’ vs ’Hadoop? For my 200-customer biz?’
By Dale Vile As an industry analyst, it sometimes feels like I am flitting between[...]
Managing expanding business – Critical Linux workloads
Evidence from users in the real world shows that for large workloads, the mainframe offers[...]
DCIM and Energy Management
By Tony Lock Over several decades IT management has focussed almost exclusively on keeping servers[...]
Speeding up ‘Change’
By Tony Lock For much of the last decade ‘IT’ has become something of a[...]
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 is a big bet for Microsoft, and is a major step forward[...]
Workload placement in a hybrid world
Research shows that you are going to mix your platforms and deployment models in the[...]
Do SMBs have less of a mobile and collaboration need?
By Dale Vile Yahoo!’s decision last month to axe home working prompted a lot of[...]
Cloud Opportunities
By Team Freeform It seems that every week yet another visionary or IT vendor with[...]
Cloud is more about choice than hosting
By Dale Vile There’s a trick we use at Freeform Dynamics when trying to figure[...]
To PaaS or not to PaaS – that is the question
By Dale Vile Most forms of cloud computing are starting to find their place in[...]
User driven IT adoption – Problem or opportunity?
By Dale Vile The latest catchy but dubious term to emanate from the vendor and[...]
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,[...]
Your local Public Cloud
By Andrew Buss A few weeks back we looked at the role that private and[...]
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)[...]
Virtual application networking
If you’re implementing a private or a hybrid cloud, then your network fabric needs a[...]