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,…

Technology analysts have highlighted the emerging differences in the IT department between the tasks of managing legacy systems and the increasing number of applications and services migrating to the cloud. Garner has described the difference as ‘two-speed IT,’ where separate…

The journey to the cloud moves through a number of stages, but one of the most important is planning. It’s here you determine your cloud strategy, firm up on your stakeholders’ requirements and collect the information you need to establish…

If you’re already making use of the cloud or planning to migrate applications and services to the cloud, you rely on fast, secure, resilient connections. But, if network performance doesn’t meet those requirements, you risk damaging levels of customer and…

Agile is a term that continues to drive change in the data center. Business users talk the language of digital transformation. They need new services and they expect faster delivery, minimal downtime and the ability to respond rapidly to changing…

The challenge facing many IT professionals is complex – if, why, how, what and when to migrate to the cloud. According to the CDW Cloud 401 Report, 35 percent of services are delivered totally or partially by cloud and 54…

As more businesses migrate services to the cloud, their experiences help to clarify the benefits that cloud can deliver. Attitudes to the cloud vary, as CDW’s Cloud 401 Report indicates. The firm asked businesses if they felt claims about the…

Shadow IT and dark data are challenges that IT teams would like to forget. They put the organization at risk of losing confidential or private data that could damage its reputation and breach compliance regulations. Shadow IT also creates a…