Opinion
Opinion
Servers
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Apstra stops the cyber criminals from loitering with intent
Intent-based networking fine-tunes all the complicated variables that influence the performance of a network infrastructure and can head off any potential cock-ups Continue Reading
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Making the business case to create a successful IoT initiative
The internet of things has the potential to address multiple business objectives, but it is not a miracle technology that will provide business benefit in isolation – true value comes only when the wider challenges are considered across all ... Continue Reading
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Storage is already confusing and now its shrinking
Coping with existing server farms is quite a challenge for some customers and the technology is emerging that will squeeze even more out of smaller spaces leading Nick Booth Continue Reading
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What happened to the HP machine?
Anyone remember the HP announcement about 'the machine'? Billy MacInnes does and he wonders just what has happened to the grand project Continue Reading
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Channel matchmaker on MariaDB
It’s big, it’s robust and it’s all over the place! Meet MariaDB Continue Reading
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Dell resellers get to say 'I told you so'
Those resellers that embraced Dell when it returned to the channel almost eight years ago have even more reasons to think they made a wise decision Continue Reading
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WS2003 end of life – Is your business ready?
Mark Scaife, head of technical development, Phoenix IT, looks at what the forthcoming support switch off for WS2003 means for the channel's customers Continue Reading
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Time to hug that server
Nick Booth finds that not all research provides clear cut answers as he looks at some findings on the rise of server hugging Continue Reading
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IBM is starting to wrestle with its hardware problems
In the week it revealed in its latest results that hardware sales were poor and then sold off its x86 server business to Lenovo, Billy MacInnes takes a look at IBM's hardware strategy Continue Reading
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Being approximate might just be good enough
There is an obsession with using computer technology to get the right answer but Billy MacInnes is interested in the idea of getting close enough Continue Reading
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Silver linings in the server and storage market playbook
As customers move to more agile infrastructures, virtualisation and the cloud could drive higher value sales potential for servers and more attach potential with storage, says Fujitsu's Craig Parker Continue Reading
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The datacentre combover
Are you recruiting a datacentre manager? You can tell a lot about them by their hairstyle, says Nick Booth Continue Reading
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Plain speaking gets you clouds, but no smoke and mirrors
You can only sell to SMEs if you speak their language, so it's time to start brushing up. Nick Booth meets 4D, a datacentre firm that's doing just that Continue Reading
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Whitman's latest report makes grim reading
Meg Whitman might have provided analysts and investors with a great deal of honesty about the time it's taking to turn the business around but as Billy MacInnes discovers the bad news has been coming for quite a while now out of HP Continue Reading
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SCH sells distribution business – what took it so long?
In the wake of SCH's decision to sell its distribution business, Billy MacInnes asks, why now? Continue Reading