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IBM gets converged but will it succeed?
It's like that final shoot-out in For a Few Dollars More. You've seen it: as Morricone's music builds, the three protagonists arrange themselves slowly in a circle, not taking their eyes off each other.
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How clean is your cloud?
Now there's more data that could help answer that question.Greenpeace has just released a report entitled How Clean is Your Cloud?
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Beware of the cloudburst
A big selling point for cloud computing is what's become known as cloud bursting. What this means is the ability to move spikes in demand for computing resources into the cloud, rather than having to...
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SMBs adopt the cloud without security
Security has take another knock as a prime barrier to the adoption of cloud computing.A survey commissioned by Microsoft (whose involvement was not revealed to the respondees) found that small to...
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Passwords are here to stay: get used to it
It's been mildly amusing to see, once more, a vendor of two-factor authentication call the end of the line for passwords as a security mechanism. We've been around this particular block so many times...
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Virtual desktops are on the march
Virtual desktops are the next mountain to climb if you're an IT or datacentre admin. So far so obvious, I hear you mutter.
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SMB storage gets smart. Or does it?
Time was when a network-attached storage (NAS) box was pretty much that: just storage. But those times have changed, and you can now buy a NAS that offers features that were enterprise-level not that...
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Cloud update - and how Apple still doesn't get it
I've been doing some research into cloud, the wheres, hows and whys, and it's thrown up some interesting (if not spectacularly surprising) results.On the face of it, and if you're taken in by the hype,...
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The market for virtualised server I/O hots up
It looks like the market to rewire your datacentre by virtualising I/O is hotting up.In March, I wrote about Xsigo, and how it is bidding to centralise the arrays of cabling that infest server racks.
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Why too many cloud relationships turn sour
Mid-sized firms are still signing on the dotted line for external services without checking the right things
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Backup problems? Top tips for virtualised environments
Backing up a virtual environment continues to be problematic. So what's the best approach? One company reckons it has some answers
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Secrecy is Google's Achilles heel in battle for the cloud
Google is trying to position itself as a more reliable IaaS provider than Amazon Web Services. But given that its cloud technology is proprietary, can it meet enterprise demands for openness and...
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Want to make friends with the CIO? Get beyond the slogans
A recent exercise confirms what many have long suspected — vendors often fail to address customers' underlying problems.
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Woz says the cloud sucks — but does it really?
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's unhappy cloud experiences as an individual have coloured his views. Yet it's worth thinking about his complaints from an enterprise perspective.
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Flash memory: How the technology is getting smarter
Flash storage may be faster than disks but datacentres will be more concerned about integrating it with other systems — and there are signs that issue is being addressed.
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Cloud archives start to melt
Who would have thought it? Archiving to the cloud sounds like one of the dullest applications going but a fire has suddenly been lit underneath it.
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Scale-out NAS: Time those smart features helped smaller firms
Whatever the attractions of network-attached storage, scaling out or up is tricky. So where are the enterprise-level features that address those issues for smaller organisations?
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Are SSDs worth the extra cost?
Whether solid-state drives are worth considering over disks will come down to cost calculations involving performance and the nature of your datasets.
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ARM vs Intel: The fight for the datacentre hots up
ARM and Intel go head to head over the processors at the heart the datacentre, but can mobile chips really prevail against their established rivals?
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IT jobs: Will convergence simply end up deskilling staff?
In today's datacentre, the watchword is convergence. But convergence in all its guises has the potential to cause tension and the deskilling of staff.
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