Rather than being an inhibitor to take up of cloud computing, the use of cloud services can actually improve an organisation's security stance. Cloud delivery is suitable for a range of security services from basic ones such as malware protection...

There is much work to be done in providing true data governance solutions. While standard data cleansing, data profiling, master data management and spreadsheet management products are widespread there are a large number of other capabilities...

As part of the next generation datacentre (NGD) research, Quocirca also asked interviewees for their thoughts on cloud computing. This report provides the analysis and findings from this research.

This report should be of interest to those who do not yet have effective end-point management or are seeking to improve existing practices. Many mid-market organisations with limited resources will be in this position.

This report looks at the promise and issues of cloud computing as described today, along with the direction cloud needs to take in order to fulfil on its promise.

Virtualisation has come to the fore - yet it also creates headaches that data centre and facilities managers must deal with.

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.

In December 2010 the media was alive with stories of hacktivists attacking payment websites including Visa, MasterCard and PayPal in response to those organisation's refusal to take payments in support of the WikiLeaks website. Every day we...

It is often the case in large enterprises that multiple data marts are deployed, along with a central enterprise data warehouse acting as a system of record. While these data marts serve the requirements of the departments or divisions that...

More than ever, small businesses need to efficiently control costs and optimise cash flow, but how, and what role does automation play in this process?

Whether an organisation is looking for immediate green savings, where energy savings result in a positive impact on the organisation's bottom line, for meeting legislative requirements measures and monitors in resource usage is required.

The expectations, working methods and tools used by employees in all organisations have changed as a result of advances in communications technologies.

The use of complex software is now part of daily business life. Unfortunately cyber criminals are taking advantage of this to spread malware and to attack systems with the aim of stealing information, money and intellectual...

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...

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.