Category Archives: 3. Hybrid Systems Delivery
Juggling Performance, Availability and Security
By Tony Lock A recent report from Freeform Dynamics illustrates that many corporate networks are[...]
Controlling Application Access
Application performance, availability and security challenges are quietly creeping up in the context of internal[...]
Predictions for 2014
My views on market developments in 2014 are not sensational, I’m afraid. I offer them[...]
Entropy and Data Quality
By Tony Lock IT systems are subject to many of the same laws that govern[...]
Data Stored Factor: do you know how many times is a given piece of data stored?
By Charles Brett Are enterprises asking the right questions about data and its storage? This[...]
Building a future proof service portfolio
By Dale Vile We constantly hear that cloud is the future and that distributors, resellers,[...]
Customer Data Quality in Context
Are you a business manager/executive? Read on to find out why sometimes you may have[...]
Managing Customer Data Quality
IT Leaders and Architects, when was the last time you could look at one of[...]
Software Defined Networking (SDN) continues to move forwards
By Charles Brett and Tony Lock During an Analyst Briefing at the IBM Development Laboratory[...]
How much is a mobile data gigabyte?
By Charles Brett A gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes. Computer science tells us this is so.[...]
Could what happened to flight engineers apply to data storage and its management?
By Charles Brett Flight engineers in cockpits began to disappear in the 1980s as aircraft[...]
The Business Value of Data Protection
By Tony Lock The data held in every business is valuable and in the current[...]
The DC you have to the DC you need
Your data centres are stuck in a rut. While 90 per cent have had an[...]
Device Proliferation and Data Fragmentation
By Tony Lock Bring your own device (BYOD) continues to attract considerable attention, but the[...]
The SaaS opportunity for SMBs
By Dale Vile Software as a Service (SaaS) is potentially a great fit for small[...]
Clouds and the Data Centre weather forecast
By Tony Lock Enterprise Data Centres are complex collections of systems acquired over long spans[...]
Unravelling the SMB SaaS opportunity for resellers
By Dale Vile SMBs and cloud computing are a match made in heaven. That’s the[...]
The Data Fragmentation Challenge
By Tony Lock Every IT professional is acutely conscious of the rapid rate at which[...]
Data fragmentation challenges for CIOs
By Tony Lock A recent survey by Freeform Dynamics confirmed that access to accurate information[...]
SMBs are tumbling into the cloud? Oh get real
By Dale Vile This article was originally published for the channel. SMBs are now turning[...]
The End User Security Jigsaw
Organisations of all sizes are trying to understand the security implications of mobile working, device[...]