The world we live in is increasingly digital. As the smart use of technology leads to markets speeding up and becoming ever more unpredictable, a strong set of established offerings…
Advances in digital technology create significant opportunities to transform both customer engagement and business operations. As the trends in these areas continue, feedback from 1,442 respondents in a recent survey…
IT infrastructures are often coping pretty well with current business requirements, but many IT professionals are aware that new and changing needs will lead to future capability gaps. They also…
If you work in a small or medium-sized business environment, storage is probably something you only think about when you need more capacity or have to implement a new application.…
In today’s fast-moving, information-intensive business environment, data management is more of a challenge than ever. Relying on manual processes and scripts, or ad hoc piecemeal automation, is not sustainable
A perennial problem with storage is how to deal with escalating requirements in a smooth, manageable and non-disruptive manner. By removing many of the traditional limits on system expansion, Ceph…
As cyber security threats become more sophisticated, targeted and persistent, it’s no longer possible to block all attacks. Measures to detect intrusions are now at least as important as those…
For many of us, our work life and social life are becoming intermingled. We can use our phones,laptops, tablets and USB sticks for business or pleasure and we like to…
Just as IT professionals and others responsible for mobile security have come to terms with BYOD, the problem has moved on, with the lines between business and personal activity blurring…
Mobile security is becoming more of a headache as the crossover between business and personal activity continues to increase, and employees generally expect more freedom. Research suggests, however, that you…
Not so long ago, many were speculating that ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) would define the future of end user computing. Most organisations today, however, see a role for both…
Network traffic flows have become pretty complex in today’s distributed business environment, and not just for large corporates. This became clear during a recent research study in which 610 small/medium-sized…
As both company and personally owned mobile devices are increasingly used in business, understanding and dealing with the associated risks has become a significant concern for many. In this report…
Webcast recorded 12th June 2015 Firstly, Tony Lock and Dale Vile show you where your Windows Server 2003s are hiding, and what your options are when you find them. Secondly,…
In a recent online survey in which responses were gathered from almost three hundred IT and business professionals, we investigated the related set of challenges and risks arising from fragmented…
Cloud computing has gone mainstream. While a hard-core of naysayers still exists, the black-and-white negative viewpoint is a lot less common today than it was a year or two ago.…
Organisations are increasingly turning to multi-tiered shared storage environments to deal with growing data volumes, changing business requirements, and IT delivery models. Managing Quality of Service (QoS) at scale, however,…
A great deal has been written about how trends in digital communication and engagement are changing the business landscape, and you probably don’t need reminding of what’s going on in…
The DevOps movement is supported by a whole range of tools, and is particularly well served by the Open Source community. Whether it’s Jenkins, Nexus, Maven or the many other…
An interesting remark I heard at a recent CIO gathering was “DevOps is the first genuinely strategic topic that IT suppliers have promoted in years”. This same CIO went on…
Over the years, I have grown increasingly sceptical about the ability of most Telcos to operate effectively outside of their traditional comfort zone. So many times, they have declared great…
With the flash storage market developing rapidly it’s important to understand the nature of the technology. This paper looks at the role of flash storage in the modern data centre…
