Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation

The Enterprise Flash Imperative

From expensive luxury to essential enabler

Five years later, the hybrid cloud is real

When we surveyed over 300 IT and business professionals back in 2011 on their attitudes[...]

Getting all-flash storage investment approved

We are at an interesting time in the all-flash storage array market

Technology as a catalyst for cultural change

Time for a more inspirational approach?

Managing Cloud Complexity

The emerging role of converged services

Unleashing the full potential of all-flash arrays

The network is part of the system too

IT Decision-Making in the Digital Age

Making the right technology investments in today’s fast moving digital age can mean the difference[...]

Desktop budget wrangles

Whose device is it anyway?

Cloud computing reality check

Introduction: Is cloud really a kind of magic? Many have positioned cloud computing as the[...]

Poor capacity planning is not our fault

Sysadmins explain why things are so crap

Will hyper-converged infrastructure kill traditional storage?

In a nutshell Deciding which direction to take with your storage purchasing is a tough[...]

Protecting data in your hyper-converged environment

In a nutshell Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) has been gaining popularity as a way of simplifying[...]

All-flash storage uncertainty and doubt

In a nutshell All-flash arrays are arguably coming of age, but in an early market,[...]

IT Ops as a Digital Business Enabler

Some argue that IT operations doesn’t matter anymore; it’s all about developers. Our aim in[...]

Digital transformation initiatives hampered by poor ICT skills

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published a report detailing the results of an[...]

Managed Services in the Data Centre

From stability to agility Data centres have been around a long time during which various[...]

Everyone’s talking about Dedupe

In a nutshell Storage is a very hot topic in every data centre and computer[...]

The Impact of Cloud on IT Teams

We often hear that cloud computing dramatically reduces the need for in-house IT teams, and[...]

Digital Disrupters do it to Themselves

The word ’digital’ seems to have overtaken ’cloud’ as the hottest word in the IT[...]

Capacity planning in an age of agile and on-demand IT

Capabilities are still far from ideal

Taking DevOps to the Next Level

It’s all about continuous delivery

A higher impact approach to IT investment

In a nutshell You may have doubts about the value for money or level of[...]

The dangers of digital smokescreens

A recent global study (1,442 senior respondents) revealed that those reporting particularly good returns from[...]

If you think DevOps is BS, you may be a victim of bandwagon marketing

I’ve been coming across more DevOps naysayers and sceptics recently. Whether online or face-to-face, I[...]