When IT teams and their colleagues within the business get along, life is good for everyone. A virtuous circle is created in which managers and executives recognise and appreciate the…
In a nutshell If asked to name a distributed version control system (DVCS), most people in the software development world would probably think of Git. Indeed, some would spontaneously rave…
IBM’s announcement of a storage suite with per Tb pricing is a natural move following the launch of the Spectrum brand last year to sit over its storage portfolio. Back…
While your storage infrastructure may be meeting current needs, you will almost certainly be investing in it in one way or another as demands escalate and new requirements emerge. The…
In today’s fast-moving, information-intensive business environment, data management is more of a challenge than ever. Relying on manual processes and scripts, or ad hoc piecemeal automation, is not sustainable
A perennial problem with storage is how to deal with escalating requirements in a smooth, manageable and non-disruptive manner. By removing many of the traditional limits on system expansion, Ceph…
The DevOps movement is supported by a whole range of tools, and is particularly well served by the Open Source community. Whether it’s Jenkins, Nexus, Maven or the many other…
An interesting remark I heard at a recent CIO gathering was “DevOps is the first genuinely strategic topic that IT suppliers have promoted in years”. This same CIO went on…
Rapid data growth, a greater emphasis on operational risk and developments in storage hardware are conspiring to question the suitability of some traditional data protection solutions to deal with evolving…
The term ‘Software Defined Storage’ is used to describe a wide range of ideas and offerings. This makes it hard to pinpoint specific opportunities. Fully supported enterprise class solutions based…
By Dale Vile The desktop productivity space has been dominated for many years by Microsoft Office. Open source alternatives and cloud services like Google Apps have made some inroads, but…
Cloud is a broad brush term that covers several different approaches to delivering IT services and there is currently a lot of discussion looking at the role of managed service…
Results of a web survey illustrate the state of business information and analytics today. Just how familiar are organisations with concepts like ‘Big Data’ and are IT professionals ready to…
If the deluge of headlines and vendor marketing materials is anything to go by, ‘big data’ is the ‘next big thing’. So how much is there really to all this…
I couldn’t say this for certain, but I get the impression that the marketing noise around ‘big data’ has now exceeded that of ‘cloud computing’. Either way, there is no…
‘Big data’ is one of those ‘buzz’ terms that is difficult to avoid, at least by anybody who reads IT-related publications, or receives vendor marketing materials. From that perspective, ‘big…
If anybody attending the Adobe MAX conference had any doubts about Adobe’s commitment to Flash, these were firmly dispelled soon after the start of the event. Equally, anybody for whom…
By Tony Lock KEY FINDINGS Few organisations know what software they are using The vast majority of organisations have only partial knowledge of the software that is deployed in their…
Open Source and Proprietary – The Decision Criteria The selection of operating systems was once one of the major decisions IT managers had to face when considering their options for…
After all, the role of libraries in general has been increasingly threatened by the march of online media. Why drive to a physical building to look something up when we…
Software vendors make their money from licensing software for individual and corporate use. From the buying perspective, you’d think it could be a simple question of asking how much you…
One of the joys of working as a manager of desktop and laptop systems is to be found in the weird and sometimes surreal world of software licenses. Not really,…
IT can sometimes seem like a long, drawn-out process of making things work with each other. Whether it’s getting back-end systems to exchange information, or trying to open a file…
