Category Archives: Infrastructure & Platforms
Thinking Beyond the Clouds
By Jon Collins and Dale Vile A number of trends are having an impact on[...]
Streamlining the network
Ethernet networks have evolved dramatically in capabilities and scale over the past decade. Networks have[...]
How can Organisations be helped to exploit Storage Management Solutions?
The amount of data stored by organisations continues to grow at a very fast rate.[...]
The cloud’s impact on security?
We tried to get through this workshop without using the five letter C-word, but we[...]
The Business of Interoperability
By Dale Vile and Jon Collins ‘Interoperability’ is a widely used word in IT industry[...]
Selling the cloud
Vendors are pushing cloud for all they are worth. And customers talk about it too,[...]
Time for action on storage management
The amount of data stored by organisations continues to grow very fast. It has become[...]
IT infrastructure for mid-sized organizations
By Jon Collins IT infrastructure is often presented in a way that is more relevant[...]
Servers: Getting a grip on power and control
The Register’s Tim Phillips, our own Andrew Buss and Intel’s Iain Beckingham give power efficiency[...]
Mobile virtualisation
By Josie Sephton Given the push towards platform virtualisation as a way of optimising hardware[...]
The pre-integration balancing act
For as long as I have been in IT, the ‘right’ way to drive things[...]
The software licensing minefield
Software vendors make their money from licensing software for individual and corporate use. From the[...]
Evolution of Hosted Server Computing
by Dale Vile There has been much talk and activity in the industry recently around[...]
Understanding the market for elastic cloud services
By Dale Vile The idea of utility computing has been around for a long time,[...]
Cloud Confusion
By Tony Lock In this article we revisit some research conducted in 2008, covering perceptions[...]
Driving value from IT
Audience – IT decision makers Occasion – CA Mainframe Madness May 2010 Presenter(s) – Jon[...]
What’s in the box? Supporting chipsets and virtualisation demands
Selecting the right choice of components for an industry standard x64 server is much more[...]
The impact of virtualisation on securing systems
Virtualisation has become an established trend in the x86 server market and is moving into[...]
Servers: Refurbish, repurpose or recycle?
With the worst of the recession looking to have passed (touch wood), things are looking[...]
But is that really cloud? Check out this survey
Some have accused me of being a cloud computing sceptic, and it’s true that I[...]
But is that really cloud computing?
By Dale Vile The term ‘cloud computing’ is in routine use within the IT industry.[...]
Why server virtualisation can store up trouble
The cost savings and performance offered by server virtualisation can raise unforeseen issues for storage[...]
What’s in store for availability management?
Roughly speaking, availability management is what your organisation does to ensure IT services stay up[...]
Building high availability into IT
What does ‘high availability’ actually mean in the context of IT today? We’ve written elsewhere[...]