Opinion

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Servers

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Channel matchmaker on MariaDB

  It’s big, it’s robust and it’s all over the place! Meet MariaDB  Continue Reading

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The datacentre combover

  Are you recruiting a datacentre manager? You can tell a lot about them by their hairstyle, says Nick Booth  Continue Reading

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Fujitsu bucks the trend but can it buck the economy?

  At a time when everyone else seems to be cutting Billy MacInnes ponders over Fujitsu's decision to keep spending  Continue Reading