Category Archives: Infrastructure & Platforms

Developing the modern datacentre into a services hub

By Andrew Buss A number of IT vendors have recently gone on the record saying[...]

Building the future proof datacentre

By Andrew Buss The last decade has seen massive leaps in performance and capability across[...]

The next decade of data centre evolution

By Dale Vile To some, the mere concept of enterprise datacentres still being around in[...]

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[...]

A Vision for the Data Centre

The death of on-premise IT as a result of hosted cloud services is greatly exaggerated.[...]

Defragging your Datacentre

By Andrew Buss The world of business is becoming faster moving, more competitive and ever[...]

Taming the procurement elephant

The cost of supplying IT services inside businesses has never been more visible with considerable[...]

Analytics and Big Data

By Tony Lock ‘Big Data’ is a hot topic receiving considerable attention from the marketing[...]

Upping your game with Windows Server 2012

Andrew Buss met up with Chris Losch, from Newham Council, and Gary Collins, from Intercept[...]

Why you need an interactive archive

Many organisations today only archive data when there is some external legislative driver forcing their[...]

Future-proofing the data centre

Dale Vile meets with Hewlett-Packard’s David Chalmers They discussed how recent innovations in server, storage[...]

IT Service Management and Business Requirements

By Tony Lock A couple of years before terms such as “Cloud”, “Big Data” and[...]

Cross-Selling to the Cloud

By Dale Vile The notion of cloud computing taking more of the action in the[...]

Bridging the great divide

By Andrew Buss At the Intel Developer Forum 2012 in San Francisco, Intel looked to[...]

Big Data and Analytics

Results of a web survey illustrate the state of business information and analytics today. Just[...]

Lack of Understanding inhibits adoption of Big Data

By Tony Lock Read any IT publication, online or hard copy, and it is hard[...]

Datacentre in a box – Something for everyone?

CIOs have a tough job delivering an expanding range of services to ever more demanding[...]

The Big Data Revolution

Big Data suffers misuse but at its heart is really about getting more value from[...]

Effective B2B Integration

The way in which organisations communicate and transact across supply and demand chains has a[...]

What should CIOs be demanding of Storage Vendors?

In most organisations the acquisition of storage and its associated management tools was, until recently,[...]

Personal Use of a Windows Tablet in Business – It’s ready for operational use

There is no doubt that “Tablet” devices and “Slates” are attracting a lot of attention[...]

Agility without anxiety

Dale Vile met up with Perforce’s Mark Warren to discuss how to do agile development[...]

Private Cloud and Data Centre Evolution

Will every data centre become a cloud? As nearly everyone working in IT understands, things[...]