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← View all opinionsBy Keith Joseph "Storage Virtualization – Storage Hypervisor – Software-defined Storage." It has many names, but has the time come for the data centre to embrace the concept of full vendor-independent...
By Amar Nandha, Head of Application Performance Management (APM) Practice, Easynet Global Services Apps for business or consumer use, across any device, are changing the way we experience content. Ent...
By Alessandro Sorniotti, cloud security scientist, IBM Research - Zurich In the late 1990s, few people quite recognised the enormous potential of the Web or how it would transform the way we live and...
It seems like it is that time of year again... the annual rehash of the year that was and the jostling for pre-eminence in predictions for the year which approaches. So let us heave ourselves onto tha...
Given the fact that cloud computing is such a new technology, and indeed many people in the world are not even familiar with it yet, one doesn't really associate it with a part of the globe that is mo...
By James Walker, President of the CloudEthernet Forum (CEF) Cloud services have become immensely popular much faster than was ever predicted. This enormous growth is driving a gap between what leading...
By Christopher Morris, Tech Commentator The retail firm, Amazon, have already established themselves as the world's biggest player in the cloud market. The company that originally made its name as a b...
By Basant Singh, Software Engineer and Blogger Demystifying the new buzzword: "Multi-cloud" When you enquire about availability of a service to cloud IaaS providers, without fail they talk about three...
By 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...