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Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Why hybrid IT means having a squeezed middle
Managing Editor 13 Jan 2022From a pure sense of logic, cloud computing is the right choice for almost every situation requiring enterprise IT. Hardware can be deployed as and when required, used on-demand and the management ...
In this guest post, Adam Bradshaw, commercial director at colocation provider ServerChoice, discusses what datacentre operators can do to protect their organisations from the worst of the UK's ...
April 2021 marks the start of the tech events calendar, starting with Red Hat Summit, which was held online for the second time since the onset of the pandemic. In this month's recap on the top ...
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Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
The consequence of IT failure on a space mission
Managing Editor 17 Feb 2021If everything goes to plan, an HPE edge server, Spaceborne Computer-2, will soon be running on the International Space Station, proving that commodity x86 hardware can be used to run mission ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Datacentre storage investments: A lesson in future-proofing
Senior Editor, UK 04 Feb 2021In this guest post, Amy Fowler, vice president of strategy and solutions at datacentre hardware provider Pure Storage sets out why enterprises should consider adding unified fast file and object ...
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Ahead in the Clouds
Datacentre managers on how to address the shortage of women and young people entering the industry
Senior Editor, UK 27 Jun 2017Anglia Ruskin University invited Ahead in the Clouds along to their recent boot camp to lead a two-way discussion with its Datacentre Leadership and Management students about how to address the ...
Open Source Insider
Splicing data machinery -- what is scale-out data processing, really?
21 Jul 2016Splice Machine is an open source RDBMS (relational database management system) powered by Hadoop and Spark. The firm’s latest product updates paint something of an interesting picture in terms of ...
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Ahead in the Clouds
Datacentre management: Taking a Rubik’s Cube approach to hypervisor fine-tuning
Senior Editor, UK 20 Jun 2016In this guest post, Frank Denneman, Chief Technologist at PernixData, advises operators to apply Rubik Cube-solving strategies to datacentre management problems. When attempting to solve a Rubik’s ...