Category Archives: Infrastructure & Platforms

Agonising over cloud versus on-premise

In a nutshell Keeping your IT infrastructure in line with evolving application and business needs[...]

A higher impact approach to IT investment

In a nutshell You may have doubts about the value for money or level of[...]

Enterprise Git in Perspective

In a nutshell If asked to name a distributed version control system (DVCS), most people[...]

Why are backup and recovery measures often not as robust as they should be?

Data protection is essential for every business and its importance cannot be underestimated for disaster[...]

Scale-out storage: Proprietary? Commodity? Or both?

There is no doubting that scale-out storage is now thoroughly achievable. Indeed, scale-out is pretty[...]

IBM’s Spectrum Suite of storage tools is going to be a hard sell

IBM’s announcement of a storage suite with per Tb pricing is a natural move following[...]

Combining DCIM and Cloud / CoLo / Managed Services

There is no doubt that requirements for IT to deliver additional capabilities continue to increase.[...]

Network Security Solutions

IT Security is complex and trying to work out whether it is better to use[...]

Will open source storage make the hyperscale dream real?

Open-source software has become an important presence in many areas of IT, and now, as[...]

What changes will have the biggest impact on your IT in the next three years?

The rate of change in IT and business has never been more rapid. Standing still[...]

Enterprise Storage Architectures

Enterprise scale up storage arrays have traditionally been expensive to acquire and complex to manage.[...]

Infrastructure Readiness Temperature Check

IT infrastructures are often coping pretty well with current business requirements, but many IT professionals[...]

Key Advances in Storage Technology

While your storage infrastructure may be meeting current needs, you will almost certainly be investing[...]

Modern Storage Options for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

If you work in a small or medium-sized business environment, storage is probably something you[...]

Data Protection and Management in a Box

In today’s fast-moving, information-intensive business environment, data management is more of a challenge than ever.[...]

Ceph as an Enabler of Growth and Scalability

A perennial problem with storage is how to deal with escalating requirements in a smooth,[...]

Future Proofing Your Network

Network traffic flows have become pretty complex in today’s distributed business environment, and not just[...]

Cloud and Security Challenges

Cloud adoption is taking place in organisations of all sizes. Internal cloud systems are being[...]

You can do more with backup than just cloning your data

As we all know, the world of backup is changing, and not just in obvious[...]

Windows Server 2003 end of support – Don’t panic, do something secure, now

Webcast recorded 12th June 2015 Firstly, Tony Lock and Dale Vile show you where your[...]

Cloud Security Temperature Check

In a recent online survey in which responses were gathered from almost three hundred IT[...]

What scares you most about ‘the cloud’?

Cloud computing has gone mainstream. While a hard-core of naysayers still exists, the black-and-white negative[...]

What hyper-converged storage really means for you

To paraphrase an old joke, ask three IT “experts” for a definition of hyper-convergence and[...]

Evolution of the OpenText portfolio

A few days into my first software sales role back in the 90’s, I was[...]