Author Archives: Tony Lock
Datacentre facilities in the spotlight
How strong are the foundations supporting your IT infrastructure? Facilities infrastructure, which includes power management,[...]
Power and the 24×7 imperative
What’s required to ensure business continuity in the datacentre? Modern businesses depend on IT. As[...]
IT service delivery models
Will the cloud make your datacentre redundant? With many organisations under pressure and IT teams[...]
Datacentre power management
Does your approach need a rethink? Effective and efficient management of power within the datacentre[...]
Datacentre Strategy and Evolution
Despite the advent to cloud computing the datacentre remains central to corporate IT. But with[...]
The Data Centre and Cloud – What’s Going On?
A look at recent developments in the delivery of IT Services For much of the[...]
IT pros speak about frustration with AFA vendors
As part of a recent survey we asked a panel of IT professionals to give[...]
The Green Data Centre – Myth or Reality
Every few years, core IT infrastructure issues surge into visibility on the corporate radar. Often,[...]
Protecting data in your hyper-converged environment
In a nutshell Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) has been gaining popularity as a way of simplifying[...]
Managed Services in the Data Centre
From stability to agility Data centres have been around a long time during which various[...]
Everyone’s talking about Dedupe
In a nutshell Storage is a very hot topic in every data centre and computer[...]
Capacity planning in an age of agile and on-demand IT
Capabilities are still far from ideal
2016 – The year of the ‘Butterfly Wings’ effect?
Changing data centres step by step or wing flap by wing flap
How a bank optimizes the use of customer information
Mobile, social and other digital channels are now an integral part of customer engagement. As[...]
Why are backup and recovery measures often not as robust as they should be?
Data protection is essential for every business and its importance cannot be underestimated for disaster[...]
The telecom transformation journey
The services offered by telecom companies provide some of the best examples of digital customer[...]
Integrating the car into our digital life
Self-driving cars provide one of the best examples of how digital technology is set to[...]
Driving disruptive innovation in a demanding B2B environment
While many are talking about concepts such as disruption and innovation as if they were[...]
Surface Pro 4 – The Good, The Bad and The Frustrating
I recently acquired a Surface Pro 4 as part of an equipment refresh here at[...]
IBM’s Spectrum Suite of storage tools is going to be a hard sell
IBM’s announcement of a storage suite with per Tb pricing is a natural move following[...]
Network Security Solutions
IT Security is complex and trying to work out whether it is better to use[...]
What changes will have the biggest impact on your IT in the next three years?
The rate of change in IT and business has never been more rapid. Standing still[...]
Enterprise Storage Architectures
Enterprise scale up storage arrays have traditionally been expensive to acquire and complex to manage.[...]
Key Advances in Storage Technology
While your storage infrastructure may be meeting current needs, you will almost certainly be investing[...]