Author Archives: Tony Lock

Getting real about IT sustainability

From good intentions to tangible results through smart systems selection[...]

Have you made the right platform choices to minimise risk?

Critical systems have to run and run…[...]

Don’t let your smart software suffer from poor platform choices

Mismatched AI and analytics can be massively inefficient[...]

Supporting the needs of highly unpredictable workloads

It’s all about flexibility, scalability and cost effectiveness[...]

Has the cloud caught up with the mainframe?

Yes, you read that right[...]

Linux and sustainability

The emerging role of modern, high-scale consolidation platforms[...]

CIOs plans for 2022

Priorities and interests[...]

Ransomware teaches the importance of data protection

Several years ago, around the time that ransomware attacks started making the front pages[...]

Is it a Suite, Package, Bundle or Platform?

People have been selling collections of products and tools for centuries, and with the advent[...]

Where vendors too often go wrong: SMBs need enterprise-grade IT too

For far too long now, many vendors seem to have assumed that the IT requirements[...]

SMB-friendly IT solutions are needed

Your business deserves more than a cut-down enterprise offering[...]

Is IT investment handled better now than a decade ago?

Throwback Thursday: People like to think that the way IT works with business has changed[...]

Software-Accelerated S/4HANA Migration

Striking the right balance and maximizing ROI[...]

So many ways to pay for IT

Which best suits your needs?[...]

The business change agenda

Throwback Thursday: Research carried out in 2011[...]

Data governance in software testing

Throwback Thursday: this week we're going back to 2008[...]

The importance of modern data archiving

In today’s business world, the value of archiving is greater than ever[...]

Mobile moments and the past left far behind

Throwback Thursday We have looked at many reports from years ago that show that, whilst[...]

Has the data centre of the future already arrived?

Throwback Thursday: Predicting the future back in 2012[...]

Effective IT recovery in small/midsize businesses, 10 years on? Maybe tomorrow…

Throwback Thursday: this week we're going back to 2011[...]

10 years on, and HPC is taken for granted

Throwback Thursday: Heading back to 2010[...]

How have attitudes to risk and resilience changed?

Throwback Thursday: Looking back to June 2008[...]

Remote working in a pandemic

Silver linings and lessons for the future[...]

A prophetic look back at Green IT

Throwback Thursday: Back in the summer of 2008[...]