Tony Lock

Conducting the trio, not orchestrating a symphony

Tony Lock 27 April 2012 No Comments

Tunes to get you started ’Dynamic workload management’ and ’private cloud’ are just two of the terms currently in vogue to describe new approaches to the management of IT systems.…

IT Infrastructure Management Must Move with the Times

Tony Lock 26 April 2012 No Comments

The technologies and solutions used in the IT infrastructure have changed dramatically over the years, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Equally, the requirements placed on…

Key points to highlight when selling storage

Tony Lock 23 April 2012 No Comments

Organisations of all shapes and sizes are struggling to deal with the rapid growth of data. They are expected to store it all and keep it readily available over extended…

Stop fighting fires and start managing change

Tony Lock 2 April 2012 No Comments

It’s treating the root cause of rigidity that really matters For most of the past 20 years, the provisioning and daily operations of IT systems has been mainly concerned with…

SaaS based Email and Office Productivity

Tony Lock 28 February 2012 No Comments

Over the course of many months there has been considerable coverage of ‘Cloud’ based office productivity tools and their potential use in modern businesses.

Storage Through the Looking Glass

Tony Lock 13 February 2012 No Comments

Talk of storage technology makes business people yawn, but the state of the storage infrastructure has a direct impact on business cost, risk and effectiveness. So what do they need…

Disaster Recovery in European SMBs

Tony Lock 30 October 2011 No Comments

By Tony Lock, Martha Bennett and Dale Vile KEY POINTS The term ‘disaster recovery’ is not widely used in small and mid-size organisations When we asked 160 small and mid-sized…

IT is the least of the problems – but can it improve business change?

Tony Lock 25 October 2011 No Comments

A lot of time and column inches have been spent over the years looking at the state of corporate IT systems and their inability to accommodate new ideas or support…

Expert Clinic – Revamp the network to cope with explosion in mobile kit

Tony Lock 13 October 2011 No Comments

Ethernet was originally conceived of as being used by networks consisting of limited numbers of devices, each painstakingly connected and configured. When mainstream business adopted Ethernet, only relatively small numbers…

Expert Clinic – Mixing network traffic types on Ethernet

Tony Lock 7 October 2011 No Comments

For much of the past decade the “networking” that connects users to their applications and services has often been taken for granted. But if general networking has been less than…

User Virtualization

Tony Lock 7 October 2011 No Comments

The primary driver of today’s IT leaders is to enable better business management and execution, putting business needs at the center of IT service delivery. But as technology becomes more…

Expert Clinic – Cumulo Ethernet: Building Ethernet cloud fabrics

Tony Lock 6 October 2011 No Comments

One subject that is getting plenty of attention in IT circles is “Cloud” although, truth be told, “Cloud” can be any of a number of different solution types. But with…

The fog of software licensing: dissatisfaction reigns – even in clouds

Tony Lock 30 August 2011 No Comments

There are some things in life that you just have to get on with, and in IT one of those is the management and administration of software licences. Anyone with…

The Ethernet traffic mix-up

Tony Lock 9 August 2011 No Comments

For much of the past decade the “networking” that connects users to their applications and services has often been taken for granted. But if general networking has been less than…

Software Licensing and Subscription

Tony Lock 2 August 2011 No Comments

By Tony Lock KEY FINDINGS Few organisations know what software they are using The vast majority of organisations have only partial knowledge of the software that is deployed in their…

Server Virtualisation Snapshot

Tony Lock 25 July 2011 No Comments

For much of the last three years x86 server virtualisation has been highly visible in many enterprise consolidation projects. Indeed, our research amongst real users demonstrates that whilst the use…

Operating System Selection

Tony Lock 24 June 2011 No Comments

Open Source and Proprietary – The Decision Criteria The selection of operating systems was once one of the major decisions IT managers had to face when considering their options for…

Server Virtualisation Scale-Up

Tony Lock 9 June 2011 No Comments

By Tony Lock & Dale Vile KEY FINDINGS Server proliferation is still a challenge, and consolidation is still work in progress Despite widespread acceptance of virtual server solutions and their…

Compliance: The legal landscape and how to navigate it

Tony Lock 24 May 2011 No Comments

Every IT professional recognises the importance of securing the IT systems on which critical business processes now depend. It is even true to say that business users themselves are beginning…

The evolution of desktop security

Tony Lock 13 April 2011 No Comments

The operating habits of users render passwords as the primary mechanism to secure any application or desktop of little real value. We live today in a world where it is…

The mainframe comes of age … again?

Tony Lock 31 March 2011 No Comments

Economic pressure has led to more finance directors and CFOs scrutinising expenditure to a painstaking level of detail. The aim is to ensure that IT can deliver what the business…

Have you thought about using a mainframe for that?

Tony Lock 28 March 2011 No Comments

Data centre managers and IT operations staff in large enterprises are now faced with a bewildering array of demands from their users, who take for granted that systems will work…

Desktop virtualisation: Myths jar with realities

Tony Lock 8 March 2011 No Comments

Vendors have been pushing desktop virtualisation hard over the course of the past year. So to give IT professionals a better picture of what’s really going on in this field,…

Data Centre Orchestration webcast

Tony Lock 8 March 2011 No Comments

In this Webinar Tony Lock, Tim Phillips (The Register), Graham Rushton (Avenade) and Greg Charman (Microsoft) look at the potential use of automation and orchestration solutions in computer rooms and…