Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation

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[...]

Readers of The Register speak out on Thin Client technology

Managing PC estates is a time-consuming, expensive and thankless task. Better provisioning and management tools[...]