3. Hybrid Systems Delivery Archives

Virtualisation roadblocks: From sprawl to stall

A prompt to move to the next level of management? The early days of x86[...]

Is Big Data just Big Hype?

If the deluge of headlines and vendor marketing materials is anything to go by, ‘big[...]

SaaS based Email and Office Productivity

Over the course of many months there has been considerable coverage of ‘Cloud’ based office[...]

Understanding desktop virtualisation

Looking after an organisation’s estate of desktop and laptop PCs can be a difficult and[...]

Storage Through the Looking Glass

Talk of storage technology makes business people yawn, but the state of the storage infrastructure[...]

The Business of Electronic Data Storage

By Dale Vile, Tony Lock and Martha Bennett Introduction Storage and retrieval of electronic data[...]

Rising to the information management challenge

In a world of increasingly devolved decision making, few would disagree that it’s important to[...]

CA ERwin – Getting reacquainted with an old friend

Back in the deep dark past, when I designed and optimised relational databases for a[...]

Getting to grips with SMB resilience

It is recognised across almost all companies that disasters or major events can interrupt business[...]

Winners and losers in the information race

The mainstream media generally portrays the financial services industry as being in a total mess,[...]

The secrets of effective disaster recovery

There’s no magic bullet, but there’s a formula Many IT and business executives groan when[...]

Amazon AWS Direct Connect hits the UK

Last week was extremely busy, so the first I heard of Amazon’s Direct Connect service[...]

Oracle fleshes out its ’big data’ portfolio

I couldn’t say this for certain, but I get the impression that the marketing noise[...]

SaaS based Email and Office Productivity Tools

If you have an old email server in need of an upgrade or have calls[...]

Unlock the business value of your information

Stakeholders are increasingly looking to get information ’on demand’ to regulatory bodies; seeking more complex[...]

Flatter, faster, more manageable networks

What are the drivers of data centre networking investment? As companies rely ever more on[...]

Forecasting logon storms with desktop virtualisation

Desktop virtualisation is all about centralising the various aspects of client computing such as processing,[...]

The trials and tribulations of data centre networking

By Tony Lock For much of the last decade data centre networking, along with networking[...]

Building tech for the flexible worker

Remote workers need support and training. The IT department needs to secure their devices and[...]

Big data in Context

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – TheRegister:IntelAcademy, 22nd November 2011 Presenter(s) – Martha[...]

Data retention, FOI and the storage budget

The data retention policy in too many organisations has historically boiled down to ‘keep everything[...]

Expert Clinic – Building cloud-optimised networks

Cloud computing is all about providing services as reliably and transparently as possible to the[...]

The storage boom and bust cycle

More data more often than not means more disks. It was ever thus – but[...]

Enabling Rapid and Effective IT Recovery

IT vendors have traditionally targeted the lucrative large enterprise market with their data protection and[...]