Leasing hardware means you can get the technology you need more quickly - and it can benefit the environment too!

Politics will make us all more conscious of where our data is, while hyperconvergence, SDN and the cloud come of age

A look ahead at what’s in store for enterprise IT over the coming year

Saving energy also saves money

The big truck proposed by AWS effectively brings remote locations onto the same LAN (albeit with huge latency)

Moving to OpenStack has many benefits, but you will need to deal with higher labor costs than public cloud

We are suddenly realizing the value of our data. Will we hoard it or spend it?

No matter how hard you try, you can’t kill the mainframe

To control your data center, you need analytics which can expose what is happening at every moment

No more over-provisioning. Servers will be cut to the bone, and pipes will be bigger 

With cloud becoming such an integral part of the IT infrastructure market, it’s important to understand the pillars upon which the concept is built

Any experienced IT leader will tell you that there are many more important considerations beyond price when implementing a new technology

Here are seven important characteristics to look for in any viable storage consolidation platform

As IT leaders consider opportunities to implement SDS and HCI solutions, three main use cases emerge: ROBO environments, new architecture projects  and virtual workspaces

SSDs in the data center require new methodologies for performance testing

How 25 years of Linux has changed the tech world

When a company is left to test its own product, what could possibly go wrong?

Storage vendors aren’t offering managed service providers what their customers need  

If you don’t know who owns what, your data centers could fall foul of software licensing issues

When embarking on its journey to convergence, there are three different paths an organisation can follow, depending on the end-goals of the business

As we move to containerized, converged data centers, we can learn new skills and find a new role in the business

Over-provision is inefficient, but under-provision can hammer performance and reliability. How do you find a balance? 

The industry has fixated on making power and cooling more efficient. Now some elves are showing us how to make the IT kit work better

Hyperconverged hardware is growing fast, and so is evidence of the benefits it brings