Category Archives: Infrastructure & Platforms
The Business of Electronic Data Storage
By Dale Vile, Tony Lock and Martha Bennett Introduction Storage and retrieval of electronic data[...]
Rising to the information management challenge
In a world of increasingly devolved decision making, few would disagree that it’s important to[...]
CA ERwin – Getting reacquainted with an old friend
Back in the deep dark past, when I designed and optimised relational databases for a[...]
Getting to grips with SMB resilience
It is recognised across almost all companies that disasters or major events can interrupt business[...]
Winners and losers in the information race
The mainstream media generally portrays the financial services industry as being in a total mess,[...]
The secrets of effective disaster recovery
There’s no magic bullet, but there’s a formula Many IT and business executives groan when[...]
Amazon AWS Direct Connect hits the UK
Last week was extremely busy, so the first I heard of Amazon’s Direct Connect service[...]
Oracle fleshes out its ’big data’ portfolio
I couldn’t say this for certain, but I get the impression that the marketing noise[...]
SaaS based Email and Office Productivity Tools
If you have an old email server in need of an upgrade or have calls[...]
Unlock the business value of your information
Stakeholders are increasingly looking to get information ’on demand’ to regulatory bodies; seeking more complex[...]
Flatter, faster, more manageable networks
What are the drivers of data centre networking investment? As companies rely ever more on[...]
Forecasting logon storms with desktop virtualisation
Desktop virtualisation is all about centralising the various aspects of client computing such as processing,[...]
The trials and tribulations of data centre networking
By Tony Lock For much of the last decade data centre networking, along with networking[...]
Building tech for the flexible worker
Remote workers need support and training. The IT department needs to secure their devices and[...]
Big data in Context
Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – TheRegister:IntelAcademy, 22nd November 2011 Presenter(s) – Martha[...]
Data retention, FOI and the storage budget
The data retention policy in too many organisations has historically boiled down to ‘keep everything[...]
Expert Clinic – Building cloud-optimised networks
Cloud computing is all about providing services as reliably and transparently as possible to the[...]
The storage boom and bust cycle
More data more often than not means more disks. It was ever thus – but[...]
Enabling Rapid and Effective IT Recovery
IT vendors have traditionally targeted the lucrative large enterprise market with their data protection and[...]
Disaster Recovery in European SMBs
By Tony Lock, Martha Bennett and Dale Vile KEY POINTS The term ‘disaster recovery’ is[...]
Clouds for hire
Is it effective to build out a network infrastructure to handle all workloads, rather than[...]
A View from Above the Clouds
Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – IAP Symposium, 14th October 2011 Presenter(s) –[...]
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[...]