By Charles Brett Experience indicates there tend to be two schools of thought about deploying mobile devices into enterprises. The first seems to prefer to prefer a ‘laid-back approach’, where…
By Andrew Buss A few weeks back we looked at the role that private and public cloud services play both today and in the future. We saw that most companies…
If you’re implementing a private or a hybrid cloud, then your network fabric needs a refit. You’ve virtualised your servers – but even in a mostly static environment, traffic patterns…
By Andrew Buss Most IT departments today recognise that things could be run much more effectively and efficiently, given a nirvana with free reign of budget, time and people, not…
By Andrew Buss I’ve been using Windows 8 in various forms since the early previews, through the release candidates and now have it as my Windows desktop of choice. Leaving…
By Andrew Buss A number of IT vendors have recently gone on the record saying that owning your own infrastructure is a dead end and that everything will move into…
By Andrew Buss The last decade has seen massive leaps in performance and capability across all areas of IT. This has enabled organisations of all sizes and types to approach…
By Andrew Buss The last few years have seen significant changes in end user computing. In this workshop we’ve looked at how there has been a shift from desktop PCs…
By Andrew Buss The world of business is becoming faster moving, more competitive and ever more dependent on IT. Transactions and interactions between suppliers, the channel and even customers that…
By Andrew Buss The last decade has seen a dramatic shift away from desktop computers towards notebooks and more recently smartphones and tablets. At the same time, the cost of…
Andrew Buss met up with Chris Losch, from Newham Council, and Gary Collins, from Intercept IT. Between them, they ran through a raft of real-world projects and deployment scenarios where…
By Andrew Buss The way that companies connect with each other to do business can have a big impact on the overall performance of the business. We can sometimes take…
By Andrew Buss At the Intel Developer Forum 2012 in San Francisco, Intel looked to deliver on its vision of transforming from a provider of server chips to being an…
By Andrew Buss Much of the talk of the last year has been about Big Data and how to get timely, actionable intelligence from the whole range of information assets…
At the RSA Conference 2012 in London, one of the key themes to emerge was that the traditional ways of doing security, while still mostly valid today, are being tested…
Identifying the ingredients that make the difference for agile IT The term ‘Private Cloud’ is widely marketed by IT vendors as the natural future of IT. Much of the messaging…
One of the certainties when it comes to running IT is that change is constant. Modern businesses depend more and more on IT services to run all manner of business…
Microsoft is unveiling a whole new generation of Windows on October 26th 2012, and significant changes are afoot. The biggest, and most noticeable, change will be the ushering in of…
We know from our many studies that most IT organisations are stretched operationally while having to balance a whole bunch of competing priorities to balance. One of the major challenges…
Lots of people are talking about private cloud as the next natural step from virtualisation. While some companies have managed to implement private cloud, for many it can seem to…
Andrew Buss discusses how security needs to become embedded and automated within the network and how the network has become an integral part of the service delivery architecture. This is…
Andrew Buss explains how enterprise drivers and aspirations will shape cloud adoption and the opportunity for the service provider. This is the first part in a series of videos, click…
Andrew Buss explains how enterprise drivers and aspirations will shape cloud adoption and the opportunity for the service provider. This is the second part in a series of videos, click…
