It may not always seem like it, but wherever IT is responsible for providing applications or communications to end-users, it takes on the mantle of being a service provider. If,…
When it come to virtualisation and private cloud, it seems that IT is happy to run just about any application virtualised, so long as it in the test and development…
So what’s involved in a large scale migration of Windows 7? Well, as this webcast based on the experience at Sky discusses, it’s less about technology and more about planning…
Do you know what’s running in your network? In this time of ever increasing security threats and hacking attacks, a recent meeting I was at brought home the old adage,…
There’s nothing new in the concept of IT marketing or selling itself to the business, and many readers of this column may groan as they remember past attempts at advertising…
Windows 7 migration is not just about upgrading the operating system. In this webcast we look at the practicalities of one of the most complex parts of a migration project…
By Andrew Buss KEY POINTS Connectivity is not widely perceived to be a major barrier to the adoption of Cloud services There is an optimism surrounding the ability of the…
Running your email and office applications in the cloud is not a new idea; Google and others been offering services in this area for a long time. The entry of…
Is it possible to migrate a large scale email environment to the cloud and keep your job? Well you can do, provided you adopt the right approach. DOWNLOAD THE SLIDE…
Given all the hype and conjecture recently, we could be forgiven for thinking that we should have decommissioned our server rooms or data centres and moved everything to the Cloud…
By Andrew Buss Having sat through countless vendor cloud pitches, there seems to be an idealistic, almost naïve, viewpoint that it is a natural progression for companies to continue their…
By Tony Lock The topic of “Cloud” has not escaped the attention of anyone in business or IT. Today people are slowly becoming aware that the term Cloud does not…
There are few topics in the IT industry that are more divisive than the option of putting anything other than Windows on the corporate desktop. Too often opinions are focused…
Private cloud is a nice theory, but what does it translate to in practice when it comes to the nitty-gritty of application migration and dynamic workload management? Some of the…
There are many ways to classify cloud service offerings. The most basic is to relate them to the traditional systems stack. This gives rise to terms such as ’Infrastructure as…
Today, IT Infrastructure is evolving at a tremendous pace. The Mainframe computer, now often referred to as System z, has long been central to the operations of many organisations. But…
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.…
IT architects and CIOs have a number of factors to take into consideration when it comes to selecting where to run workloads and how to design systems for efficient operations…
One of the advantages of using Platform as a Service (PaaS) to develop and deploy an application is broad reach. In this webcast we look at a practical example from…
The recent news that RSA Security suffered a security attack and breach that resulted in the theft of sensitive and confidential Intellectual Property relating to SecurID should be a cause…
Terms such as ‘network convergence’ and ‘unified comms’ have been used to describe the coming together of voice and data communications, plus various forms of conferencing and collaboration, but what…
By Andrew Buss & Dale Vile KEY FINDINGS Many companies could do much better when it comes to in-house security Many companies implement security reasonably well, but there is a…
