Category Archives: Infrastructure & Platforms
Translating private cloud into customer requirements
Identifying the ingredients that make the difference for agile IT The term ‘Private Cloud’ is[...]
Engineering IT for agility – Getting the foundations right
One of the certainties when it comes to running IT is that change is constant.[...]
Balancing storage efficiency and data security
We know from our many studies that most IT organisations are stretched operationally while having[...]
Data fragmentation challenges restrict business flexibility
Business must be ready to respond to rapidly changing market conditions. For any organisation to[...]
Siloed approach to IT security increases business risk
It is said that the technology at the heart of IT changes at a bewildering[...]
Private Cloud and IT Service Delivery
The impacts on budgets, reporting and IT delivery models. When economic times are hard there[...]
Getting private cloud to play nicely
By Dale Vile We were surprised at the strength of positive sentiment and relative lack[...]
Playing the SLA long game
By Dale Vile When IT is your day job it’s easy to lose sight of[...]
From virtualisation to private cloud
Lots of people are talking about private cloud as the next natural step from virtualisation.[...]
Private Cloud Forecast – Sunny or Stormy times ahead for CIOs?
Businesses are still operating under enormous economic pressure and, as would be expected, this continues[...]
Analyst Headlines: Accelerating Cloud Adoption
Andrew Buss explains how enterprise drivers and aspirations will shape cloud adoption and the opportunity[...]
Behind the Headlines: Accelerating Cloud Adoption
Andrew Buss explains how enterprise drivers and aspirations will shape cloud adoption and the opportunity[...]
Analyst Headlines: Securing the Data Center
Andrew Buss share’s his views on the significance of a simplified Data Center architecture. This[...]
Behind the Headlines: Securing the Data Center
Andrew Buss share’s his views on the significance of a simplified Data Center architecture. This[...]
Analyst Headlines: Securing the Wide Area
Andrew Buss discusses how security needs to become embedded and automated within the network and[...]
Behind the Headlines: Securing the Wide Area
Andrew Buss discusses how security needs to become embedded and automated within the network and[...]
Unilever adopts new technology to drive agile infrastructure delivery
Andrew Buss speaks with Garry Meaburn, the operations effectiveness and tooling manager at Unilever and[...]
Private Cloud and IT Service Delivery
By Martha Bennett, Tony Lock & Dale Vile Key Points IT funding is under stress,[...]
The Links between Public and Private Cloud
By Martha Bennett and Tony Lock Key Points ‘Cloud’ concepts are widely understood, but practical[...]
The infrastructure and management implications of Desktop Virtualisation
Desktops are now visibly mission critical Desktop Virtualisation is a topic that has enjoyed considerable[...]
Desktop Virtualization
Desktop virtualization has progressed from a niche way of handling exceptional user requirements to a[...]
Private Cloud in Context
To make sense of private cloud, you need unravel it from the broader cloud computing[...]
Energy Aware Planning and Decision Making
Energy availability and management is increasingly becoming an important agenda item for IT leaders, but[...]
Working smarter, not harder
What options are there to help people work together more effectively? The emergence of new[...]