Martin Banks casts an eye over current developments in datacentres, mainframes, virtualisation and the wider issues of infrastructure systems as the delivery vehicle of services to business.
There was an unaddressed question that danced around the edges of the Intel Software Conference held earlier this week in Salzburg: where is the potential for parallel technology to dramatically change the way users set about computing,...
The distinctions between internal and external IT resources may still be real for many companies, but VMware is pitching to make them disappear.
Here's an interesting question: when does a defined technology such as virtualization cease to...
Not so long ago a friend emailed me asking a question, though I thought he should know the answer better than I. He works for a company selling outsourcing services that enable businesses to operate in The Cloud, and his question was fundamental...
Some product or technology names, with Apple's iPod being a classic example, come to define a new class of product or technology even though the derivation of the word is, at best, tenuous. Others, however, are so vague and intangible that they...
The words 'software' and 'components' are being put together with increasing regularity these days, but the combination is already starting to look limited and restricting. The combination that now seems to sum up the trend more accurately brings...
Where there's a recession there is also an opportunity. While excremental in nature, bad economic times can also be just the right fertilizer needed for the next step forward in the application of new ideas or technologies. This one looks set to...
The customer base of Edinburgh-based data centre hosting company, Scolocate, is starting to demonstrate what should be an important trend as interest in cloud computing ramps up. The psychological issue that currently faces many vendors of...
Dana Gardner Principal Analyst Interarbor Solutions
