The road to hybrid cloud
Front cover of BCS Evolution of cloud computing book There is little argument that cloud is having a major impact on how organisations design, provision and operate their IT platforms. However, there still seem...
Clive Longbottom
The emergence of a new data-centric management vendor
It doesn’t seem that long ago where there were three main focuses on data security: – Hardware/application security – Database security – Document management security Each had its own focus; each had its own...
The importance of Operational Intelligence in emergency situations
At a recent roundtable event organised by Esri UK, representatives of the North Wales police force, Wessex Water and the Environment Agency talked about how they were using geographic information systems (GIS) in their...
GDPR and the UK: sorting fact from fiction
How will data protection enforcement change in the UK once the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes in to force? Will the GDPR come into force at all, with the UK planning to...
The key to application success? Usability…
The business has made a request to IT for something to be done. IT has done all its due diligence and has come up with a system that meets every technical requirement laid down...
Colocation HPC? Why not.
High performance computing (HPC) used to only be within the reach of those with extremely deep pockets. The need for proprietary architectures and dedicated resources meant that everything from the ground up needed to...
