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If, like me, you often find yourself hunting for the notes you took in an online meeting – and then for those that your colleagues also took on the same call – you might like the new feature we ...

Had a fascinating chat the other day with a company I really should have spoken to decades ago, but such is life. SES is probably a company wot you think you don’t know, but – for example – anyone ...

Cloud adoption has seen explosive growth over the past year. Cloud infrastructure has proved essential to helping businesses adapt to remote working, enabling them to become flexible and resilient ...

Of all the regularly repeated “yeah right” claims within IT, “MPLS is dead” probably ranks highest (if not in Rome). Analyst prediction realties show that the managed MPLS market was valued at over ...

What a difference a decade can make. When we looked at the world of private cloud almost a decade ago, it was a new idea to many people – so new, in fact, that we had to define it for them. In ...

Cloud computing is now so much part of our everyday lives that it’s hard to remember a time when this wasn’t the case. Less than a decade ago, our surveys were still throwing up results confirming ...

Around this time last year, I was in London to cover off an event on platform migration for Rimo3, which I duly covered in this blog back then. ...

After the best part of two decades of gradual change in the world of the networking infrastructure, WiFi and mobile notwithstanding, the past few years have seen more upheaval than at any time ...

So, for once on this blog I thought I’d leave the “talking” to someone else or, more to the point, someone “elses”. My old mates at Netevents have soldiered on through this increasingly bizarre, ...

German software giant SAP has built an app to provide its employees and customers with accurate real-time information on Covid-19 and guidance on how to cope with the virus. Built on the SAP Cloud ...

"Wasn't cloud just another name for outsourcing back then?" joked another guest in a recent briefing, as our host explained just how long ago he’d joined his company’s cloud division. We all ...

As I mentioned in my previous blog post, the time for digital transformation to happen has started to hit crunch time, and then some. I recently reported on an IT event in Central Londinium, an ...

We’ve had convergence towards hybrid clouds and ‘universal’ applications, but now we are seeing divergence towards different cloud platforms, each offering its own flavour of interoperability. ...

Had another interesting cloudy discussion last week with SIOS – one of ITs better kept secrets, certainly in the UK. Much of that is down to the sensitivity of what it does and who it does it for. ...

I recently completed a report for a long-time client, Kemp Technologies, in the area formerly known as L-B/ADC - i.e. Load-Balancing/Application Delivery Control. It really hit home, during the ...

With Kubernetes now established in many organisations as the container orchestration platform of the future, are cracks already starting to show? Well, not exactly – but if I could pull out one ...

Many vendors will argue that moving to cloud brings consistency and simplicity, thanks to service-based delivery models, application access via standard Web browsers and so on. It’s rarely true ...

On the face of it, cloud storage should be an ideal candidate for an “excess capacity”, “sharing economy” business model. Otherwise termed “Uberization”, we’ve seen the rise of apps and services ...

I remember long ago, in an unlikely setting for a bleeding-edge test-labs – an old winery surrounded by vines where the only “blood” came from crushed grapes – yes, my old French test labs, where ...

In this guest post, Neil Briscoe, CTO of hybrid cloud platform provider 6point6 Cloud Gateway, sets about busting some common cloud myths for enterprise IT buyers The cloud provides endless ...

Google has made a complete about-face on the enterprise. It took so long that if you were watching all the time you probably didn’t notice it, but it has turned through 180 degrees. Thinking back ...

Last week's IP Expo at EXCEL wasn't all bad news; we escaped the first night into proper London, to a brewery disguised as a pig restaurant and then, naturally, to a (posh) curry house. Well, it is ...

This is a guest blog by Claudia Imhoff, CEO Intelligent Solutions and founder, Boulder BI Brain Trust Like any new initiative, there are both challenges and benefits to weigh when deciding whether ...

I recently caught up with Gary Turner, co-founder and managing of director of Xero. I was interested in meeting him as Xero has a reputation as the company that broke all the rules of ...

It’s a truism that IT essentially reinvents itself every decade or so. In some ways this can be rightly seen as a cynical way to repackage the same old tosh and sell it again to confused.com IT ...

One thing that is also clearly understood is that, even with an outsourced, “in the Ether” service, such as a public/private cloud, the EMEA market – with its geo-cultural fragmentation – is a very ...

Many organisations are already some way along their journey to cloud computing. No matter where you are on this journey - whether still thinking about it or well on the way - finding a source of ...

IoT Back to Basics, chapter 2: In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT) it is becoming increasingly important to be able to process, filter and analyse data close to where it is created, so it ...

This is a guest blogpost by Allan Leinwand, CTO, ServiceNow      Cloud services first appeared in the late ‘90s when large companies needed a way to centralise computing, storage, and networking. ...

The consumerisation of IT and digital disruption are transforming how business and people use IT. But it has also changed how we think about IT and as a consequence how we write about it.

Organisations need to balance innovation and business improvement with good governance and efficient use of IT budgets and resources. But this is not easy. Plenty of people right across the ...

In Singapore, where labour is scarce and expensive, automating work processes to improve our productivity and free up time for higher-value work seems like a no-brainer. Yet, it is only in recent ...

As an attendee at VMworld events for about half a decade, this one provided the clearest message I’ve yet heard from VMware. That’s because, in its explanation of its Cross Cloud strategy and ...

The tipping point at which public cloud operations attain a 50% share of IT workloads will come in 2030. Until then, and beyond, we face “decades of a hybrid [cloud] world”. That’s the view ...

Rackspace continues to try and evidence, validate and clarify the use of its 'hey, we're the managed cloud company' tagline by hosting a series of press-facing debates throughout London in 2016. ...

Canonical has launched a distribution of Kubernetes (with enterprise support) across a range of public clouds and private infrastructure, but why? The rationale here is to give IT teams who want to ...

Not that long ago, Microsoft was a mess. A 1990s giant losing its way in a world of smartphones and cloud services, but still a hugely important legacy supplier to corporate IT chiefs. In 2003 on ...

The Information Bus COmpany, or TIBCO to you and me, has tipped a direct nod towards the popularisation and proliferation of container-based software application development. The firm's ...

HSBC was among Oracle customers who attested to the value of Oracle’s march to the cloud at the second day of the supplier’s Open World 2016 conference in San Francisco. A couple of other British ...

Content delivery firm Varnish Software has announced its Varnish Plus Cloud product -- essentially, a full version of the Varnish Plus software suite that can be accessed via the AWS (Amazon Web ...

Convox might sound like a great name for an industrial toilet cleaner, except it isn’t. The name actually belongs to a piece of software (yes, it’s makers would like us to say ‘platform, but please ...

It's all hands to the cloud platform pumps over at the OpenStack community this month. For one, Mirantis (a software, services and training company) is buddying up with Google and Intel to develop ...

Managed cloud company Rackspace held its London-located customer, techie, partner, cloud collaborator etc. event this week. So… another contrived set of presentations fluffed out with corporate ...

Cloud hosting solutions company Pulsant gets down to the nitty gritty more than some firms. Rather than spending an excess of time meandering around the oh-so worn out subject of ‘business ...

WiFi/WLAN is taken so much for granted nowadays, that it's easy to forget just how far it has come in recent years. Given that it took around 15 years to get from proprietary 1Mbps technologies to ...

CloudBees has collaborated with Mesosphere to support Continuous Delivery (CD) by running Jenkins on Mesosphere's Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS). So let’s break down the facts. Jenkins is an ...