Technology investment decisions are increasingly shared between IT and business decision makers, according to the 2017 State of the CIO report. Business decisions now account for some 46 percent of IT investments, an increase of 3 percent on the previous…

Is cloud migration high on your agenda for 2018? Recent findings by Microsoft indicate that the proportion of small and medium businesses using cloud-based applications is set to grow from a benchmark 37 percent in 2016 to an estimated 78…

Have mainframes had their day? Certainly, they represent old technology compared to today’s on-premise or cloud infrastructures. But, for many organizations that run large-scale mission-critical applications or process huge amounts of data, mainframes remain an important resource. In Gartner’s concept…

The 2017 State of Resilience Report by Vision Solutions shared some interesting insights into trends and issues in migration over the past year. The report’s findings were based on a survey of more than 400 IT professionals. Migration Goals Vary…

The terminology surrounding business continuity is changing. It began with ‘disaster recovery’ and evolved to ‘business continuity.’ Now, experts are focusing on ‘business resilience.’ Taking out an insurance policy against one-time catastrophic events is no longer sufficient. Today, the emphasis…

A successful migration delivers positive business and operational benefits with minimal downtime. It can reduce costs and help the business become more agile. These are strong benefits and, as a recent IDG Enterprise Research Services survey found, around 78 percent…

Managing data growth is one of the top IT priorities, according to a recent survey by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). Rapid data growth, spiraling hardware and staff costs are driving storage to the cloud and that puts the emphasis…

How efficient is your discovery process? Can you maintain an up-to-date picture when the pace of change is so rapid, and can you get a single view when you’ve got assets in multiple locations? That level of efficiency is essential…

A recent report by s – the IDC MaturityScape for Multicloud Management – found that 90 percent of enterprises surveyed plan to make use of multiple clouds. Their strategy is to match specific workloads and their dependencies to the cost,…