Daniel Thomas
The UK Cloud Armageddon
The UK Cloud Computing and MSP market today reminds me of Florence and Rome during the Renaissance, full of Machiavellian whispering and Borgia scheming, although I would say that the politics was les...
The Miniaturisation of IT and Data Centres
Today we all hear about the consumerisation of IT, but the one subject most vendors and data centres do not wish to face is what I define as the miniaturisation of IT. [easy-tweet tweet="The miniaturi...
HPE teams up with vArmour for application-aware micro-segmentation
I caught up recently with an old friend Dean Hickman-Smith, who is one of the Exec’s at cloud security leader vArmour after they announced a big partnership with HP Enterprises. Here’s a brief Q&A...
Is Oracle a sleeping cloud giant?
I have heard many times the famous quote regarding cloud computing spoken by Larry Ellison of Oracle - “cloud is a fad”. I have also witnessed a number of people claim Oracle is too late for cloud, c...
Rise of the Millennial
I remember the time when I was at my Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128K looking at a TV screen playing Hunchback, a perfect forming of squares with addictive gameplay. Fast forward to my first PC a Tiny Pentiu...
Crouching OEM Tiger, Hidden Cloud Dragon
The China dream in terms of cloud and technology is for China to move beyond a manufacturing economy to one of technical greatness. China wants to become the designer, producer and retailer of these solutions, not just the manufacturer.
The technology landscape in the year 2025
It is easy to predict what is coming up for the next year but thinking further out is always a challenge. In this blog post I am going to look at advances made in 2015 that will impact us in 2025. [ea...
The Great Cloud Juxtapose
[quote_box_center]The definition of Juxtapose is ‘to put people or things together, especially in order to show a contrast or a new relationship between them’[/quote_box_center] Why is this relevant t...
A blog to Storage Marketers regarding IOT Scaremongering
Wading through my usual early morning spam I noticed that there was a number of articles relating to IoT (Internet of Things) and storage growth. Like the idiotic mindless early stage cloud marketing...
Will the last reseller standing please turn off the lights?
In 1912 the RMS Titanic Sank after hitting an iceberg, one of the few stories to emerge was how the ships musicians played to calm the passengers until it finally went to its watery grave. The questio...
Is your data locked in?
Daniel Thomas considers software defined networks and asks if your cloud services are locked in to your data centre?
A day with Arrow: Transforming the data centre
Daniel Thomas reviews Arrow's "Transforming the Data Centre," a launch event aimed at enabling MSPs to grow their business.