Category Archives: AI & Machine Learning
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[...]
Get REAL about data location in the cloud
Where to put your data, how to decide in the real world Performance, compliance, privacy,[...]
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[...]
The Business Value of Data Protection
By Tony Lock The data held in every business is valuable and in the current[...]
The Data Protection Imperative
In this short paper, we spell out why the time has come to adopt a[...]
Data Protection as a Business Enabler
While the importance of business information is almost universally recognised, few organisations have enjoyed either[...]
Forget Big Data – No one is panning for gold
By Tony Lock CIOs have been subjected to the combined efforts of a significant proportion[...]
’Big Data changes EVERYTHING’ vs ’Hadoop? For my 200-customer biz?’
By Dale Vile As an industry analyst, it sometimes feels like I am flitting between[...]
Big Data, Analytics and the Future of Data Centres
Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – VMUG Meeting, Manchester February 12, 2013 Presenter(s)[...]