Category Archives: Infrastructure & Platforms

Expert Clinic – Mixing network traffic types on Ethernet

For much of the past decade the “networking” that connects users to their applications and[...]

Expert Clinic – Cumulo Ethernet: Building Ethernet cloud fabrics

One subject that is getting plenty of attention in IT circles is “Cloud” although, truth[...]

Big data and the cloud

One of the big advantages of cloud computing is scalability in terms of both server[...]

Smarter Networking for a smarter data centre

How do data centre networks need to evolve as business systems become ever more complex?[...]

Beware the cost of virtualisation lock-in

As the old saying goes, repeat something enough times and it becomes accepted as the[...]

Will SaaS make you more efficient?

SaaS might give you more availability, it might cut your capital costs, and it might[...]

Expert Clinic – Flattening Ethernet

The concept of an IT service used to be defined as an individual, often silo’d,[...]

Virtual worlds away in SMB space

Industry-standard x86 servers have now been used in SMBs for about 20 years, making this[...]

The Ethernet traffic mix-up

For much of the past decade the “networking” that connects users to their applications and[...]

How to gear up for dynamic service delivery

If servers and applications form the heart of the IT infrastructure, then the network is[...]

Software Licensing and Subscription

By Tony Lock KEY FINDINGS Few organisations know what software they are using The vast[...]

The impact of Cloud on IT

By Andrew Buss and Dale Vile KEY POINTS Cloud is complementary to existing IT infrastructure[...]

Server Virtualisation Snapshot

For much of the last three years x86 server virtualisation has been highly visible in[...]

The how and why of virtualising core business applications

When it come to virtualisation and private cloud, it seems that IT is happy to[...]

The Co-operative on virtualisation & Windows 7

Windows 7 migration is not just about upgrading the operating system. In this webcast we[...]

Cloud Connectivity

By Andrew Buss KEY POINTS Connectivity is not widely perceived to be a major barrier[...]

Royal Mail opens the kimono once more

Is it possible to migrate a large scale email environment to the cloud and keep[...]

Does Office 365 keep its promises?

Running your email and office applications in the cloud is not a new idea; Google[...]

Operating System Selection

Open Source and Proprietary – The Decision Criteria The selection of operating systems was once[...]

Cloud today, tomorrow, not yet

Given all the hype and conjecture recently, we could be forgiven for thinking that we[...]

Cloud Computing Checkpoint

By Dale Vile KEY POINTS Views of cloud computing are wide, varied and often contradictory[...]

Licensing in the virtual age

By Andrew Buss Having sat through countless vendor cloud pitches, there seems to be an[...]

Is the backward, protectionist IT channel holding back cloud progress?

I have been conducting a lot of interviews recently with vendors, resellers and SIs about[...]

Server Virtualisation Scale-Up

By Tony Lock & Dale Vile KEY FINDINGS Server proliferation is still a challenge, and[...]