Analyst opinion If you’re among those who still think that open source is just for hobbyists and academics, think again. Open source is mature now, both as a concept and…
Analyst opinion Open source has crested the hill of enterprise acceptance. There’s no longer the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) that there was around open source a few years ago,…
Open-source software has become an important presence in many areas of IT, and now, as storage increasingly becomes software-defined storage, it is storage’s turn. The darling of the open-source storage…
The selection of operating systems was once one of the major decisions IT managers had to face when considering their options for service delivery, be it for servers or desktops.…
Because its having a distorting effect on the rest of the industry. I’m afraid I don’t buy the argument (nor would I have to, but you get what I mean)…
Analyst Opinion We’ve had convergence towards hybrid clouds and ‘universal’ applications, but now we are seeing divergence towards different cloud platforms, each offering its own flavour of interoperability. What’s going…
Analyst opinion One of the most interesting things about the recent Open Infrastructure Summit – the new name for the OpenStack users and friends conferences – in Denver was how many people…
Proprietary cloud threatens lock-in, higher cost and application silos. There is an alternative: OpenStack is the open source cloud operating system. Backers claim that it’s the disruptive technology that the…
It’s difficult to talk about “green IT” without coming across as a techno-apologist. However much suppliers lay claim to having the most tree-huggingly planet friendly technologies available, the indisputable, unavoidable,…
The Open Library project came up for discussion on the newly refurbed Talis Library Gang podcast. A year in and the dream holds, even if we users still have to…
Analyst opinion There are several ways to build large scale Linux server environments, with x86 and public cloud being obvious ones. But there’s another option too, as I reminded myself…
Analyst opinion If you’re an IT professional managing a large desktop estate or an end user with a Windows 10 PC, you’ll be aware that Windows is undergoing a tortuous…
