Microsoft, Nokia - the one we all saw coming This article is sponsored by:
The coming together of Microsoft and Nokia has been predicted for so long that any element of surprise is gone, but does it bode well for buy-side choice?
Infrastructure
Six myths of on-premise security: an NSA primer This article is sponsored by:
Edward Snowden also revealed the parlous state of the NSA's IT security regime. There are lessons to be learned by every large enterprise.
Credit Suisse CIO talks costs, clouds, challenges This article is sponsored by:
"Fundamentally we've had to redesign and challenge the way we've run distributed infrastructure for the past 15 years. Not a single thing that we've done in the past is now acceptable for the future."
VMworld: making the VMware cloud case to buyers This article is sponsored by:
Carl Eschenbach, President and Chief Operating Officer, has been making the case for VMware's cloud proposition to IT buyers, but will it convince?
Gartner: Amazon's still the one to beat in IaaS This article is sponsored by:
Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant on IaaS gives Amazon Web Services a clear lead over all the competition. But buyers should note some caveats.
Managing the sprawl of SaaS, cloud and mobile This article is sponsored by:
How are identity and access management tools helping enterprises manage cloud and mobile apps alongside their existing IT, and what are the emerging trends?
Which IaaS provider makes the best cloud bargain? This article is sponsored by:
Enterprises beware when moving workloads to the cloud. Benchmarks show surprising disparities in performance between IaaS providers Amazon, IBM, Rackspace and Dimension Data
Akamai and the need for speed This article is sponsored by:
Without speed, online commerce risks failure and customer experience is significantly undermined, warns Tom Leighton, CEO of Akamai.
Retrofitting the Internet for identity This article is sponsored by:
Andre Durand, founder of identity and access management vendor Ping Identity, describes a future when standards will eliminate the need to use passwords in the cloud
The cost of IT outages: from the sell side This article is sponsored by:
IT outages can cost end user organisations dear in both money and reputation. So when failure occurs, is it fair to blame the supplier for not living up to a vision of 99.999% uptime?
The cost of IT outages: from the buy-side This article is sponsored by:
IT outages are a fact of life and they will be costly - both financially and in terms of brand and reputational management. In this special 3 part series, we look at the impact of outages from different angles, beginning with the buy side perspective from two organisations with a strong dependency on technology.
