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[...]