Category Archives: AI & Machine Learning
Cyber Security Ownership and Responsibility
It’s easy to be caught out by a cyber attack or internal mistake that leads[...]
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[...]
Building a Curated Digital Hub
In a nutshell In today’s online business environment, with data spread broadly and widely, making[...]
Tackling End User Content Sprawl
In a nutshell The problem of content sprawl has been around since the early days[...]
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[...]
Enterprise Storage Architectures
Enterprise scale up storage arrays have traditionally been expensive to acquire and complex to manage.[...]
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,[...]
User-Centric Mobile Security
Not so long ago, many were speculating that ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) would define[...]
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[...]
Storage Quality of Service Management
Organisations are increasingly turning to multi-tiered shared storage environments to deal with growing data volumes,[...]
The Impact of VMware VVOLs on Storage
VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) are due to be released in 2015 and have been designed[...]
Data Virtualisation for DevOps
The DevOps movement is supported by a whole range of tools, and is particularly well[...]
Are data centres heading towards a future of technology hardware monocultures?
You have probably heard the representatives of at least a few vendors say IT is moving[...]
The Promise and Practicalities of Flash
With the flash storage market developing rapidly it’s important to understand the nature of the[...]
Data Protection and RAID
Rapid data growth, a greater emphasis on operational risk and developments in storage hardware are[...]
Hyper-Scale Data Management
The term ‘Software Defined Storage’ is used to describe a wide range of ideas and[...]
Insurance through the Looking Glass
Creating a more customer centric business environment has historically been hard to achieve. In this[...]
The IT vendor empathy gap
Industry analysts, CIOs and others involved in the IT decision making process are on the[...]
Information Management and Access in the Public Sector
With the advent of digitisation, all public sector environments generate and capture a significant amount[...]
Building an open cloud: Say no to silos
It’s a hybrid world. But proprietary clouds are hard to integrate and less flexible. On[...]