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← View all opinionsBy Gavin McLaughlin, Solutions Development Director at X-IO Storage UK businesses are being bamboozled by overhyped marketing myths about the performance, reliability and power consumption of all-flas...
There is a new breed of CIO embedded in the boardroom looking at the digital business. These CIOs are aiming to do more than keep the lights on. They want to make their corporate networks more like th...
By Margaret Ranken, Telecommunications Analyst As data centres have become increasingly complex, juggling efficiency and availability to meet the ever-growing demand for computing power, the spreadshe...
In an earlier post I identified the types of risks that I tell customers they should address in cloud contracts. I also advise cloud providers - and they are generally willing to have an open dialogue...
[quote_box_center] CASE STUDY In cloud computing and resource virtualisation circles, hardware can often take a back seat in the performance debate. The separation of the virtual and the physical sugg...
By Tom Chappelow, Nimbox “Nimbox enables corporate Cloud file sharing and backup, allowing users to securely upload, edit and recover documents anywhere in the world." The idea was simple - to create...
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about some of the issues surrounding the growth of cloud computing in China, and how the relatively embryonic technology is set to become a massive part of the ec...
An Interview with Rob Davies, Sales & Marketing Director of Pulsant Let's be honest – while there are a lot of cloud vendors out there all promising the best service, highest performing solution a...
Event Sponsored by Compare the Cloud As part of London's Social Media Week we put on an event called Social Business – The Patchwork Elephant Revisited asking "What next for Social Business?". We were...
By Gavin McLaughlin, Solutions Development Director at X-IO Storage Open any IT magazine, read a technology news website, or subscribe to any data storage mailing list and you're probably fed up to th...
Amazon is the 800lb gorilla when it comes to cloud infrastructure (IaaS) providers. We ask how other IaaS providers can compete?
By Luke Wheeler News hot off the press this week was the announcement from Westcoast - a major UK channel distributor - that they have teamed up with HP to build a cloud service for channel partners....