Tag: news & views
BlackBerry returns to its roots
The key message at BlackBerry’s Security Summit last week in New York came across loud and clear: BlackBerry is returning to its roots as...
Distributed intelligence and IoT fog
By this point, anyone who is connected to the Internet knows how many ‘things’ will be online by 2020. Numbers of connected devices, first...
DC for less than the price of power?
Notwithstanding the industry’s fixation on growth in cloud services markets, the colocation business is alive and well. While many individual players are executing on...
Building cloud security from the end up
In the spring of 2009, Gartner identified data security as one of the top five inhibitors to broader adoption of cloud computing. Research commissioned...
Automation overdrive: from IaaS to Blueprint engine
"Automation is the lifeblood of cloud," according to David Shacochis. "It’s like liquidity in the financial sphere — if we had to barter and...
Who can you trust?
Technology, like any tool, can be used well or badly. Sometimes the bad is malicious, and sometimes it's just the result of laziness, carelessness,...
IoT Has Arrived
The Internet of Things (or, as Cisco likes to call it, the Internet of Everything) is apparently close to hitting that inflection point. Cloud...
Digitization driving healthcare necessity and invention
A key beneficiary of the transformative impact of IT, healthcare is undergoing massive change. Like many other industries, this sector is renovating to set...
CTS managed services now "cloudified"
Is ‘IT-as-a-service’ a creature of vendor marketing departments or reality for consumers of IT today? As with most definitional questions in the world of...
HP betting on open to drive market wedge
Networking is a double edged sword. The conduit to cloud, networking complexity has also lingered as a check on progress towards greater data centre...
Discover 2014 a showcase for Apollo, Sharks, HPC and The Machine
"We are back!" Meg Whitman proclaimed from the main stage of this year’s HP Discover conference in Las Vegas this week. Referring obliquely to...
Experience on the Hoof
Every year or so, another hot catchword infests the industry. It may actually be something new and different, or it may just be marketing,...
HP driving new levels of network interconnect
Speed is the new watchword in data centre performance and management simplicity the new mantra. In the digitally dependent, hyper competitive business environment of...
CiscoLive 2014 showcases the advance of Intercloud
Cisco celebrated the 25th anniversary of CiscoLive this week by building on a theme that has been at the heart of the company’s evolution...
Do you need a DRP for winter?
For anyone responsible for purchasing deploying, maintaining or even using technology in anything remotely approaching a business setting — meaning all of us —...
