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[...]