Category Archives: Infrastructure & Platforms
Seven enablers of effective disaster recovery for SMEs
By Tony Lock In a nutshell: Recent research carried out by Freeform Dynamics identified seven[...]
Time to assess the value of the data you hold
Failing to do so could be costly There’s no need to rattle off another set[...]
Unified Infrastructure Management
Wonderful in theory, but few have it available Going back, say, five or ten years,[...]
Office 365 in the real world
A run through of precisely what it takes to move your business productivity apps to[...]
Delivering better services with integrated management
What’s in it for IT professionals? When systems are implemented and managed in isolation, it[...]
Conducting the trio, not orchestrating a symphony
Tunes to get you started ’Dynamic workload management’ and ’private cloud’ are just two of[...]
IT Infrastructure Management Must Move with the Times
The technologies and solutions used in the IT infrastructure have changed dramatically over the years,[...]
Key points to highlight when selling storage
Organisations of all shapes and sizes are struggling to deal with the rapid growth of[...]
Fast Forward to Big Data
Does ’cloud’ have a roll in providing customers with access to new data sources to[...]
Readers tell us why implementing change is so hard
Readers have provided some great feedback during our latest workshop on a topic that has[...]
Managing IT like a (service) pro
Organisations are often told that running their IT as a service would be the right[...]
Stop fighting fires and start managing change
It’s treating the root cause of rigidity that really matters For most of the past[...]
Turning virtualisation into advantage
Freedom to move, not bogging things down The road to hell, they say, is paved[...]
Getting mobility working for you
Breaking down the barriers to effective communications For many companies, particularly in these challenging economic[...]
Banging your head against the invisible wall
Has virtualisation really moved the game forward? OK, so you’ve virtualised a bunch of servers[...]
Virtualisation roadblocks: From sprawl to stall
A prompt to move to the next level of management? The early days of x86[...]
Is Big Data just Big Hype?
If the deluge of headlines and vendor marketing materials is anything to go by, ‘big[...]
SaaS based Email and Office Productivity
Over the course of many months there has been considerable coverage of ‘Cloud’ based office[...]
Understanding desktop virtualisation
Looking after an organisation’s estate of desktop and laptop PCs can be a difficult and[...]
Storage Through the Looking Glass
Talk of storage technology makes business people yawn, but the state of the storage infrastructure[...]
The Business of Electronic Data Storage
By Dale Vile, Tony Lock and Martha Bennett Introduction Storage and retrieval of electronic data[...]
Rising to the information management challenge
In a world of increasingly devolved decision making, few would disagree that it’s important to[...]
CA ERwin – Getting reacquainted with an old friend
Back in the deep dark past, when I designed and optimised relational databases for a[...]
Getting to grips with SMB resilience
It is recognised across almost all companies that disasters or major events can interrupt business[...]