Why Enterprise CIOs need to justify running their own data centres
If your CIO comes to you on Monday and says...
Welcome to the IT Infrastructure blog from Paul Bevan.
Social media is not a numbers game
In a previous blog we highlighted the importance of social media for data centres and looked at some examples of companies doing Twitter...
Microsoft, Oracle and the merits and pitfalls of fast following for data centre operators
The way in which Microsoft and Oracle have responded, very differently, to the challenge posed by public cloud in general and AWS in...
The way out for old corporate data centres
In August, data centre start-up ST2 announced the proposed construction of a large new data centre on the old ICI site at Redcar in North...
Dealing with Darwin helps resolve Bi-Modal IT Issues
My attention was caught last week by an article in ComputerWeekly.com. It highlighted disagreements between two IT analyst heavyweights,...
Gartner’s latest IaaS Magic Quadrant: more than meets the eye
When was the last time you read the whole of a Gartner Magic Quadrant report? If you are like me you will look at the picture of the...
3 Post Brexit Certainties
Given the tumultuous, barely believable string of political events in the last couple of weeks, it takes a brave person to try and forecast...
You don’t need a new sales and marketing engine, just a tune-up
Not many companies have the time, money or inclination to completely reset their sales and marketing strategy or change the tools and...
Data Centres at the Crossroads
Other industries have been there before. Will data centres take the right direction? In the mid-1980s the industry covering the...
Moving Beyond Space and Power
Last week I caught up with Ravi Ravishankar, Global VP for Product Management and Marketing at Equinix on a flying visit he made to London....