A recent IDG survey, The Challenge of Change: IT in Transition, found that while businesses recognized the importance of IT transformation, the majority were unsure how to map their journey. The challenge is to modernize IT to support business needs…

Planning Storage Migration – Preparation is Vital If your business currently relies on legacy storage, you may be struggling with siloed structures, multiple vendors and diverse storage devices. That can create bottlenecks, slow application performance, under-utilized capacity and poor access…

RPA (Robotic Process Automation) technology is on the way to becoming a billion dollar market by 2020 with around 40 percent of large enterprises using at least one RPA tool, according to Gartner. The analysts suggest that RPA combined with…

Control and visibility – two terms that keep coming up in any discussion of data center migration and the cloud. Together with security, they make up a trio of concerns that can put the brakes on any rush to the…

Considering Hybrid Cloud? The Right Services are Essential Hybrid cloud is emerging as an important strategy for businesses with workloads that require a mix of on-premise for security and compliance, and cloud for agility. The strategy was given further impetus…

With cloud migration dominating the headlines for many years, the traditional data center appeared to have a limited and diminishing role. It was only seen as essential for mission-critical applications or applications subject to regulatory compliance or stringent service level…

Software testing is a key element of quality management. It ensures that software is free of bugs and meets its performance targets. That, in turn, enhances user and customer satisfaction, and reduces overall maintenance costs. However, traditional in-house manual testing…

A Gartner research note – Utilizing Network Service Provider Direct WAN Connectivity for the Cloud – highlights the importance of choosing the right network connection to ensure full value from cloud investments. Although the public Internet has been the prevalent…

Aging Software – Product Engineering Adds More Value Your software products are vital to the success of your business. They help your employees work more efficiently and ensure that your customers get the best possible experience when they use your…

A report by Gartner forecasts that by 2025, 80 percent of organizations will have closed down their data centers — that’s compared to 10 percent in 2018. The challenge for IT is to prepare for that change and to identify…

Four Trends That Will Shape IT in 2019 During 2018, we looked at a number of important developments that are re-shaping the way IT operates. As we head into 2019, it will be interesting to see how far these developments…

Moving to the cloud — it sounds easy in today’s environment with so many services available.  But, the reality is that a high number of cloud transformations fail, wasting money and frustrating IT and business leaders. Commentators and analysts have…