As a CIO or IT manager you are faced with typical issues relating to storage, such as the explosive growth of unstructured data, provisioning, capacity utilization, storage performance, and of course a limited budget.

Naturally, you look for solutions that are efficient, used optimally and that offer high levels of application performance. But there’s a lot more to it than just capacity or high-tech products. To solve these issues you really need to understand what technologies and architectures are applicable in different scenarios. That’s why you need some sort of storage strategy. Once you have this in place, you’ll ...

The world has changed and customers are no longer content with mere solutions. For that matter, many people don’t really care about the hardware and software behind a solution. Instead, businesses want to see the outcome of IT—the actual improvements and efficiencies it can bring about.

In this new scenario it’s imperative to become a one-stop shop offering end-to-end solutions. Back that up with a trusted and credible name and a large customer base.

Companies have a certain set of skills and are good at a finite set of things. For the missing pieces, they either acquire or ...

On my way to the Windows 7 launch conference I pondered over the future of the desktop OS. Yes, physical keyboards and mice will eventually be replaced by multi-touch and speech recognition interfaces. Motion- and gesture-based controls are also likely. But the thought that really intrigues me is the replacement of the desktop OS with something else, like say virtual desktops or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).

VDI is a desktop delivery model. The client desktop (OS, applications and user data) reside on a server in the cloud or in a data center—not on client devices. Desktop images are pushed ...

Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth shows the horrifying outcome of global warming. Within years the polar ice caps will be gone, causing water levels to rise by several meters. Entire cities will disappear from the face of the earth, much like Atlantis.

At the recent Pittsburg summit, heads of G20 nations arrived at some agreement on climate change. In reality, it translates into little action or progress. There is an urgency to do something about this crisis now, at a quicker pace. We’ve had directives such as the Kyoto protocol and incentives like Carbon Credits. Yet, these haven’t ...