In this paper we will describe the nuances of clusterbased technologies and the challenges in making clusters easier and simpler to work with (more like an SMP-based approach). Finally, we will conclude by considering how Waratek, a newcomer to...

Comprehensive management and protection of information can only be achieved when both, data centres and end points, are under control. Managed service providers (MSPs) have typically focussed on just data centres. It's time to change their thinking.

EMC Data Domain has extended the capabilities of its in-line deduplication appliances, which typically reduce data backup storage by around 95%, to gain greater savings when replicating to remote locations over a wide area network (WAN). In this...

Sybase ETL (extract, transform and load) started life as a general-purpose data integration product. However, today it is a data integration tool that has been specifically optimised to support the loading of data into Sybase IQ.

From customer contact and records keeping, through calendaring and scheduling to mapping and news feeds, the mobile phone is usurping the laptop as the main point of technology for the road warrior.

Midmarket businesses face many of the same IT challenges as larger businesses, trying to accommodate increasing demand for new IT capabilities and services.

There is a great deal of discussion right now about advanced analytics, predictive analytics and in-database analytics. What are these? How does advanced analytics (which we take to include, but not be limited to, predictive analytics) differ...

Data integration has sometimes been portrayed as a necessary evil, a cost centre, a time sink, or in other unflattering terms. Conversely, some vendors, consultants, pundits and analysts have positioned various integration models and...

A review of Managed Print Services (MPS) programmes for SMBs and midmarket organisations - European vendor analysis 2010

Much of the discussion around modern IT still revolves around purely technical aspects of a given platform, leaving many business people in the dark as to what true value of a new technical architecture actually is.

Ensuring that a data centre is run at its optimal levels will become increasingly important - yet the tools required to carry out such a task are not necessarily covered by the general IT budget:

Most organisations have information in various places that they are either unable (perhaps for governance reasons or because the data is incompatible) or unwilling (either for organisational or cost reasons) to consolidate into a single data...

There are three major benefits to be derived from log and event management solutions (sometimes referred to as SIEM, security information and event management). In the first case, these solutions provide real-time identification and alerting...

There are three major benefits to be derived from log and event management solutions (sometimes referred to as SIEM, security information and event management). In the first case, these solutions provide real-time identification and alerting...

This paper represents a snapshot and brief summary of the log and (security) event management market. A more detailed discussion of this market, together with overviews of each product, a discussion of the issues involved and product...