Nutanix adds Azure to build out its trinity of multi-cloud services
By adding Azure to AWS and Google Cloud Nutanix has signalled the growing maturity of cloud services, to the point where every business can now claim a place in exploiting it.
Infrastructure
Business resilience is a common goal – here’s what IT must do to deliver
How can IT contribute to business resilience? One way is to retrofit analog processes with IoT to tackle inefficiencies or cut out waste, writes Software AG CTO Bernd Groß
NVIDIA buys Arm - a good fit, but with points of friction and potential consumer ramifications
A poorly-kept secret confirmed - Arm falls to NVIDIA. What now?
Friday Rant - why Agile development is a fad, not a proper engineering approach
A UK standard bearer and assurance expert takes a sceptical stance on Agile development…a bridge too far?
Mainframes in an edge computing world - Compuware providing the Phoenix with a box of matches
Edge computing looks set to provide mainframe computing with an escape route from being trapped forever in the silo marked `back office’.
Pandemic consequences - the big get bigger, the IT cloud dependency gets greater
A look at the increasing fortunes of cloud providers fueled by accelerating adoption of services by enterprise over the pandemic period and beyond...
My Internet’s better than your Internet! The danger of a slide towards state-bordered WANs
The EU’s interest in its Gaia-X infrastructure is just one example of what could become an international rush towards national interest-driven, inward-looking towards parochial centralisation of the Internet, which would fracture as a global entity and become a set of state-bordered and state-governed Wide Area Networks.
Friday Rant - moving to a hyperscaler is NOT digital transformation
The spinning is intense as tech firms try to position old tech as a necessary antidote for the pandemic. But can old tech enable digital transformation? Is lift and shift a remedy for the times? The truth is in the motives of the players (not the technology).
Enterprise penetration testing is a security audit IT can't fudge
Examining the results of several reports from security companies that do enterprise penetration testing.
Will a new data economics govern how infrastructures grow?
As businesses become evermore data-centric and data- heavy, the costs associated could shift from marginal to punitive, even to the point of affecting decisions on where businesses locate themselves.
How the internet bent, but didn't break under COVID-19 pressure
COVID lockdowns, WFH and other societal changes shifting work, shopping and entertainment online have had an impact on Internet performance and reliability.
Aryaka’s SD-WAN gives Alibaba a welcome mat to the world
A managed Software-Defined Wide Area Network may prove to be a key tool in getting Alibaba an important entry point for businesses looking to break into what could be the next dominant world marketplace
New Relic's long term thinking vs Wall Street's short term nerves despite strong Q1
New Relic CEO Lew Cirne took time out to explain his firm's new product and pricing thinking to Wall Street's finest. He may find himself having to repeat the message several times more...
