8 Apr 2013 | Design & Facilities Management
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When decision-makers contemplate data-centre projects involving tens or even hundreds of millions of pounds, they must have an absolutely reliable way of assessing how their installation will perform. For large organisations depending on high volume online transactions, the highest possible data processing availability becomes the dominating requirement. Such organisations typically aspire to an availability of 99.999%, often referred to as ‘Five-Nines'. Other applications, with less critical loads, trade off between availability, capital costs and operating costs to best match their business priorities.
Authored by Mike Elms, Technical Services Manager for Uninterruptible Power Supplies Limited, a Kohler company.
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18 Feb 2013 | Other
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According to a study conducted by Intel, there are over 5 billion connected devices in the world today—and this number is expected to soar to an astounding 15 billion by 2015. This explosion of wirelessly enabled internet devices—most notably smartphones, tablets, and laptops—has resulted in more and more employees bringing their personal devices into the workplace and connecting them to corporate servers en masse.
Therefore, it should come as no surprise that ‘Bring Your Own Device' (BYOD) is the latest buzzword taking the IT world by storm. Increasingly companies are not only tolerating employee usage of personally-owned, wirelessly enabled devices in the workplace but actively encouraging it by introducing comprehensive BYOD programmes.
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4 Feb 2013 | Applications
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The consumerisation of IT has meant that personal/social devices are impacting the enterprise. Doug Miles, director of AIIM UK, advises CIOs to embrace the new IT practices such as BYOD, mobile IT and social media to gain competitive advantage.
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28 Jan 2013 | Security
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As companies continue to struggle in today's difficult economy, cutbacks affect all sectors of organizations. Unfortunately, IT security solutions are often not spared form the chopping block – a risky and shortsighted decision if you ask me, but perhaps that's fodder for a future piece.
By Chris Stoneff, Director of Professional Services, Lieberman Software.
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21 Jan 2013 | Design & Facilities Management
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As the network needs of businesses continue to evolve – with the increased use of personal devices and the operational cost benefits offered by migrating IT infrastructures to the cloud – there are clear advantages for enterprises to adopt an open multi-vendor, ecosystem approach to enhance the running of their corporate networks. Johan Ragmo, Business Development Director, CNE for Network Infrastructure at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise explains three key advantages of deploying an open multi-vendor data centre.
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10 Dec 2012 | Applications
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Enterpriseemployees are, first and foremost, independent consumers. Sooner or later, the proliferation of powerful, portable, consumer devices that have improved personal communication is going to affect enterprise communications. Manish Sablok, Head of Marketing for CNE Europe at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, explains that Bring Your Own Device is just scratching the surface of employee engagement. It's all about letting the right people have the right access to the right applications at the right time. And that means managing information access and at the same time protecting corporate – and employee – assets.
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3 Dec 2012 | Other
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Organisations need to upgrade existing technology to be able to compete, cut costs and plan for the future, argues Richard Chapman, Business Development Director, Aegis Data.
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26 Nov 2012 | Applications
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In this article, Jim DeHaven, Cisco's UKI Director of data centre & virtualisation discusses trends associated with data centre virtualisation and cloud computing, with an emphasis on the volume and growth of traffic entering and exiting the data centre.
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