3. Hybrid Systems Delivery Archives

Cloud Computing Checkpoint

By Dale Vile KEY POINTS Views of cloud computing are wide, varied and often contradictory[...]

Licensing in the virtual age

By Andrew Buss Having sat through countless vendor cloud pitches, there seems to be an[...]

Is the backward, protectionist IT channel holding back cloud progress?

I have been conducting a lot of interviews recently with vendors, resellers and SIs about[...]

Server Virtualisation Scale-Up

By Tony Lock & Dale Vile KEY FINDINGS Server proliferation is still a challenge, and[...]

Cloud and Storage

By Tony Lock The topic of “Cloud” has not escaped the attention of anyone in[...]

Do not rush into cloud

If you work in what is known as the IT channel, chances are you will[...]

The Royal Mail moves to the cloud

Private cloud is a nice theory, but what does it translate to in practice when[...]

Negotiating your way to a dynamic IT environment

That thorny question of software licenses The principle of server virtualisation is now pretty well[...]

Cloud Service Categories

There are many ways to classify cloud service offerings. The most basic is to relate[...]

The workload challenge

Today, IT Infrastructure is evolving at a tremendous pace. The Mainframe computer, now often referred[...]

Decision criteria for open source and proprietary software

The selection of operating systems was once one of the major decisions IT managers had[...]

The mainframe comes of age … again?

Economic pressure has led to more finance directors and CFOs scrutinising expenditure to a painstaking[...]

Exploiting the mainframe for new workload requirements

IT architects and CIOs have a number of factors to take into consideration when it[...]

Have you thought about using a mainframe for that?

Data centre managers and IT operations staff in large enterprises are now faced with a[...]

PaaS potential and practicality: This is a hype-free zone

One of the advantages of using Platform as a Service (PaaS) to develop and deploy[...]

Lessons from the library: Behind the UK’s web archive

After all, the role of libraries in general has been increasingly threatened by the march[...]

Can telephony and IT work together?

Terms such as ‘network convergence’ and ‘unified comms’ have been used to describe the coming[...]

Trust and security in the cloud

By Andrew Buss & Dale Vile KEY FINDINGS Many companies could do much better when[...]

Investigating the channel aspects of the cloud

I am currently looking at the extent to which it makes sense for those in[...]

The realities of SaaS and Security

With upgrades to Windows 7 and Office 2010 high on the agenda, questions are being[...]

Desktop virtualisation: Myths jar with realities

Vendors have been pushing desktop virtualisation hard over the course of the past year. So[...]

Data Centre Orchestration webcast

In this Webinar Tony Lock, Tim Phillips (The Register), Graham Rushton (Avenade) and Greg Charman[...]

Where is the immediate cloud opportunity?

Let’s get specific Pinning the term ‘cloud computing’ down to a single definition is not[...]

Cloud computing in context

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – BCS Meeting, Leeds, July 2010 Presenter(s) –[...]