Category Archives: Infrastructure & Platforms
What’s in the box? Supporting chipsets and virtualisation demands
Selecting the right choice of components for an industry standard x64 server is much more[...]
The impact of virtualisation on securing systems
Virtualisation has become an established trend in the x86 server market and is moving into[...]
Servers: Refurbish, repurpose or recycle?
With the worst of the recession looking to have passed (touch wood), things are looking[...]
But is that really cloud? Check out this survey
Some have accused me of being a cloud computing sceptic, and it’s true that I[...]
But is that really cloud computing?
By Dale Vile The term ‘cloud computing’ is in routine use within the IT industry.[...]
Why server virtualisation can store up trouble
The cost savings and performance offered by server virtualisation can raise unforeseen issues for storage[...]
What’s in store for availability management?
Roughly speaking, availability management is what your organisation does to ensure IT services stay up[...]
Building high availability into IT
What does ‘high availability’ actually mean in the context of IT today? We’ve written elsewhere[...]
Server financing: CAPEX, OPEX or something else
In the current economic climate access to spending money is tight across all businesses. In[...]
Securing Your Network
In this three part podcast Jason Stamper, editor at CBR, talks to Jon Collins and[...]
Workload selection on mixed server estates
Over the last year or so Freeform Dynamics has asked Reg readers if the new[...]
Server patching principles. The nirvana process
In the imperfect world we live in, patching stuff, be it desktops, software or servers[...]
Architecting for IT service delivery
A few years back I was involved in a project that turned out far more[...]
Provisioning – how do you approach it?
Buying new physical servers has always taken time and effort. Unfortunately virtualisation has managed to[...]
Exploiting the new dynamism
Got the new kit? Now make it work A combination of today’s fast moving, interconnected[...]
Demystifying architecture for non-enterprise organisations
By Jon Collins Architecture, schmarchitecture… words like “architecture” get banded around in IT like they[...]
Change management in x86 server estates
Changes to the IT environment are the source of some of the biggest headaches for[...]
Is IT service delivery really changing?
The new world we’ve been hearing about for years is slowly drifting into focus. Globally[...]
Business Communications in Context
by Josie Sephton and Dale Vile The proliferation of communications channels has set expectations around[...]
Virtualisation and sorcery: We’re all apprentices now
It’s funny to think what might be made of this virtualisation lab in a few[...]
Are CIOs ready to use cloud computing?
By Tony Lock Seldom in the history of IT have CIOs faced a marketing barrage[...]
High Performance for All
by Jon Collins, Tony Lock and Dale Vile Most medium and large organisations need to[...]
Virtualisation and Security
As x86 / x64 server virtualisation moves into everyday operations, what impact does it have[...]
IT infrastructure for midsized companies
Zeynep Koch of Oracle joins Jon Collins to discuss IT infrastructure for midsized companies, the[...]