Data Centre

Data Centre In Depth

How to align your IT services strategy with the business

Several factors need to be considered when thinking about a services initiative read more »

Today, as companies seek to both consolidate their vendor relationships and multisource, they tend to engage with a small number (typically two to nine) of preferred, very large IT services vendors that can be centrally governed. The strategic objectives of consolidation are important: Services clients can prequalify a few preferred suppliers that all users of IT services can easily and safely engage with. However, given the rapid pace of technology change, the need for agility, the new business stakeholders, and the rise of cloud services, a company's IT and innovation requirements are often best met by multiple best-of-breed suppliers.

How to avoid Big Data spending pitfalls

While the promise is great, Big Data projects also can be an expensive trap read more »

Securing your hybrid cloud

IT leaders will have to deal with a hybrid cloud environment, as well as manage both traditional, non-cloud, and cloud infrastructure. read more »

How to use Hadoop to overcome storage limitations

If you haven't yet considererd the open source Hadoop platform, now's the time read more »

Virtualisation - Don't let security lag behind technology maturity

Why end user organisations must strengthen their virtualisation security strategies read more »

Open source the key to cloud innovation

As the world begins to move to the cloud, where speed and scalability are critical, open source software is taking an even more intrinsic role read more »

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The hidden truth about virtualising business-critical applications

Benefits realised, with results to prove it read more »

Desktop to cloud

Browser migration in the enterprise read more »