Author Archives: Tony Lock
Data Protection as a Business Enabler
While the importance of business information is almost universally recognised, few organisations have enjoyed either[...]
Forget Big Data – No one is panning for gold
By Tony Lock CIOs have been subjected to the combined efforts of a significant proportion[...]
Managing expanding business – Critical Linux workloads
Evidence from users in the real world shows that for large workloads, the mainframe offers[...]
DCIM and Energy Management
By Tony Lock Over several decades IT management has focussed almost exclusively on keeping servers[...]
Speeding up ‘Change’
By Tony Lock For much of the last decade ‘IT’ has become something of a[...]
Empowering your users the ‘right way’
By Tony Lock Many organisations say their people are among the most valuable assets they[...]
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 is a big bet for Microsoft, and is a major step forward[...]
Security, privacy and data protection
By Tony Lock Many businesses today are faced with the challenge of rapidly fluctuating operating[...]
Data Centre Evolution
By Tony Lock Data centres and computer rooms are an important hub of many organisations,[...]
Cloud storage matters
The storage architecture you will need for a private cloud deployment will probably be very[...]
Big Data, Analytics and the Future of Data Centres
Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – VMUG Meeting, Manchester February 12, 2013 Presenter(s)[...]
Visions of the ‘Perfect Data Centre’
By Tony Lock Datacentres tend to have very long life times and the opportunities to[...]
Consolidation in the cloud
As the feverish excitement of cloud hype becomes a practical challenge for you to solve,[...]
A Data Centre that takes care of itself
A DC that takes care of itself. Can you build it, do you want it?[...]
The data centre in 2020
By Tony Lock There has never been a clearer understanding of how quickly business is[...]
Email and collaboration options for MSPs
Cloud is a broad brush term that covers several different approaches to delivering IT services[...]
Taming the procurement elephant
The cost of supplying IT services inside businesses has never been more visible with considerable[...]
Email is so last century
By Tony Lock Over the course of the last year or two an assertion has[...]
Analytics and Big Data
By Tony Lock ‘Big Data’ is a hot topic receiving considerable attention from the marketing[...]
Why you need an interactive archive
Many organisations today only archive data when there is some external legislative driver forcing their[...]
IT Service Management and Business Requirements
By Tony Lock A couple of years before terms such as “Cloud”, “Big Data” and[...]