Category Archives: Infrastructure & Platforms
Will open source storage make the hyperscale dream real?
Open-source software has become an important presence in many areas of IT, and now, as[...]
What changes will have the biggest impact on your IT in the next three years?
The rate of change in IT and business has never been more rapid. Standing still[...]
Enterprise Storage Architectures
Enterprise scale up storage arrays have traditionally been expensive to acquire and complex to manage.[...]
Infrastructure Readiness Temperature Check
IT infrastructures are often coping pretty well with current business requirements, but many IT professionals[...]
Key Advances in Storage Technology
While your storage infrastructure may be meeting current needs, you will almost certainly be investing[...]
Modern Storage Options for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses
If you work in a small or medium-sized business environment, storage is probably something you[...]
Data Protection and Management in a Box
In today’s fast-moving, information-intensive business environment, data management is more of a challenge than ever.[...]
Ceph as an Enabler of Growth and Scalability
A perennial problem with storage is how to deal with escalating requirements in a smooth,[...]
Future Proofing Your Network
Network traffic flows have become pretty complex in today’s distributed business environment, and not just[...]
Cloud and Security Challenges
Cloud adoption is taking place in organisations of all sizes. Internal cloud systems are being[...]
You can do more with backup than just cloning your data
As we all know, the world of backup is changing, and not just in obvious[...]
Windows Server 2003 end of support – Don’t panic, do something secure, now
Webcast recorded 12th June 2015 Firstly, Tony Lock and Dale Vile show you where your[...]
Cloud Security Temperature Check
In a recent online survey in which responses were gathered from almost three hundred IT[...]
What scares you most about ‘the cloud’?
Cloud computing has gone mainstream. While a hard-core of naysayers still exists, the black-and-white negative[...]
What hyper-converged storage really means for you
To paraphrase an old joke, ask three IT “experts” for a definition of hyper-convergence and[...]
Evolution of the OpenText portfolio
A few days into my first software sales role back in the 90’s, I was[...]
The Role of Cloud Storage
The chances are that your storage systems are subject to a range of pressures, almost[...]
Storage Quality of Service Management
Organisations are increasingly turning to multi-tiered shared storage environments to deal with growing data volumes,[...]
My life under Estonia’s digital government
There is much government talk about the economic importance of enabling a digital society. Yet[...]
The Impact of VMware VVOLs on Storage
VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) are due to be released in 2015 and have been designed[...]
Is your storage ready for the future?
In a recent research study we looked at the challenge of building a storage infrastructure[...]
Are data centres heading towards a future of technology hardware monocultures?
You have probably heard the representatives of at least a few vendors say IT is moving[...]
The Promise and Practicalities of Flash
With the flash storage market developing rapidly it’s important to understand the nature of the[...]
Data Protection and RAID
Rapid data growth, a greater emphasis on operational risk and developments in storage hardware are[...]