/// Tag Archives: infrastructure
Super Computers: Too Big To Fail?
“Just beware the shiny new servers with outrageous resources. You may ultimately create a monster that is literally too big to fail,” concludes Mark Vaughn...
Comments From Informatica’s Recent Analyst Conference
Last week I attended an Informatica analyst event. There was a lot to digest but here are some highlights. To begin with, the company talked...
BLADE Network Technologies Unveils Its Unified FabricArchitecture To Address Rapidly Growing Data Centre Requirements
BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data centre networking, today introduced its Unified FabricArchitecture (UFA) the industry’s fastest, smartest, most integrable and...
Slow Recovery For UK And Irish IT Services Market
The guys with monstrous Excel files over at Ovum have dampened expectations of a quick recovery for the UK and Ireland’s IT services market by...
Getting The Most Out Of Your IT – 7 Questions You Should Ask Your IT Service Provider
Never before has technology been so integral to the way we do business, providing the machines, tools, applications and services that we all need to...
What Is Likely To Be High On The IT Manager’s Agenda For 2010?
How does the land lie, in light of the past 12 turbulent months, where IT departments have been forced to pull their metaphorical belts in?...
High Availability In The Decade To Come
Having made my predictions for the year to come before the recent inclement weather, I’ve been doing a bit of thinking. I wanted to join other...
Risk Modelling – The Secret To Successful Post-Merger Network Convergence
Many organisations in today’s economy see a merger or acquisition as an attractive business strategy to improve financial position and weather a down market. This...
Quick Win, Quick Fall If You Fail To Plan Ahead
Virtualisation seems to be the hot word of the year for all businesses large and small, and as everyone seems to concentrate on deciding whether...
High Availability Vital To Gordon Brown’s 2014 Vision
This week’s anti-Brown activities got me to thinking about Gordon’s announcement at the end of last year regarding the need to ensure all public services...
IBM Acquires Lombardi
IBM on December 16th announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lombardi. Financial terms were not disclosed. IBM’s press release stated that Lombardi’s...
There Is No Excuse Not To Be Deploying CRM
I had an interesting IM conversation with Sugar associate Mitch Lieberman based on a blog post he wrote the other day. The post was around...
If You Build A Cloud Securely, And Prove It, They Will Come. Until Then, Not So Much
Dark Reading reports on a survey by Launchpad Europe that 50% of enterprises says security concerns are the biggest inhibitor to their use of public...
Virtualisation: Removing The Rose Tinted Glasses
There is no doubt that virtualisation has found its place in the IT manager’s, CIO’s and CFO’s heart―increased efficiency, cost savings, energy savings―it’s a match...
Governance In The Cloud
Although widely acknowledged as the future of enterprise computing, many companies and organisations are stalling on a move to cloud computing models, chiefly due to...
