The to-do list to make Private Cloud work

– Unified infrastructure management

Unifying the building blocks of the data centre – servers, storage and networking.

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• Private Cloud
• Data Centre
• Data center
• Storage
• CA Technologies
• UIM
• Unified infrastructure management
• Servers
• Storage
• Data Networking
• Enterprise
• Hardware
• Software
• Management

Winners and losers in the information race

– Information management: Is IT being asked the impossible?

Given today's economic background, organisations of all shapes and sizes are recognising they can no longer just spend money on new technology.

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• Financial services
• Customer focus
• Silo
• Data
• Business intelligence
• Information
• BI
• Storage
• Enterprise
• Management

Benchmarks are $%#&@!!

– Secrets and Solutions from a Reformed Benchmarker

The tricks benchmarkers use to make sure their systems shine brightly in customer bake-offs; and how irrelevant most of them are to the real world.

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• Comparison
• Benchmarking
• Benchmark
• Hardware
• Software

Building tech for the flexible worker

– Half man half laptop

Live video webcast discussing what can you do to create the best possible flexible workers for your business.

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• Data networking
• Mobile
• Video communication
• Cisco
• Voip
• Wireless
• Mobile
• Networks
• Small Biz
• IT Director
• Public Sector
• Hardware
• Software
• Comms
• Management

The storage boom and bust cycle

– Don’t buy more, manage it better

Live video brocast that discusses key storage challenges discussed by an expert panelist.

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• Data Centre
• Data management
• Cloud
• IBM
• Storage
• Servers
• Storage
• Data Networking
• Hardware
• Software
• Management

Clouds for hire

– Real clouds solving real business challenges

How other worlds are dealing with their technology challenges, embracing clouds and, arguably, making JANET one of the key cloud backbones for the UK.

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• Logicalis
• Net App
• Cloud
• JANET
• Operating Systems
• Applications
• Enterprise
• Hardware
• Software
• Management

Will SaaS make you more efficient?

– If so, how?

Will SaaS make your business more efficient? DORMA's Geoff Stone shares his business' experience and we expolre thisquestion on this live Regcast.

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• Data centre management
• Cloud computing
• ITaaS
• Microsoft
• SaaS
• SaaS
• Microsoft
• ITaaS
• Cloud computing
• Data centre management
• Small Biz
• IT Director
• Public Sector
• Operating Systems
• Enterprise
• Hardware
• Software
• Management

The security mistakes users make

– Because you can't always be there for them

Regcast expoloring traditional security architecture problem solving - including security reader research that demonstrates how this affects you.

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• Security
• Infrastructure
• Lumension
• Securosis
• Securosis
• Lumension
• Infrastructure
• Security
• Enterprise Security
• Anti-Virus
• Spam
• ID
• Spyware
• Software
• Security

Big data and the cloud

– Where scalability and elasticity really matter

Having evaluated a few options, Hadoop and Amazon amongst others, Hydra chose Azure. In this webcast he explains why.

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• Azure
• Microsoft
• Hydra
• Cloud
• SaaS
• Hadoop
• Amazon
• Amazon
• Hadoop
• SaaS
• Cloud
• Hydra
• Microsoft
• Azure
• Applications
• Enterprise
• Hardware
• Software
• Security
• Management
• Developer

Smarter Networking for a smarter data centre

– Your DC's weak link?

The problems of network consolidation, distributed apps and achieving solutions for a smarter data centre.

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• Network
• Data centre
• Data center
• IBM System Networking
• VM mobility
• VM mobility
• IBM System Networking
• Data center
• Data centre
• Network
• Servers
• Storage
• Data Networking
• Management

The data centre on your terms

– Four practical management tasks to help you take control

You need to manage hundreds of apps, multiple operating systems, many classes of service. Now they're asking for cloud, too...

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• Control
• Management
• Cloud
• Data centre
• Data center
• Data center
• Data centre
• Cloud
• Management
• Control
• Data Networking
• Hardware
• Software
• Management

Watermelon metrics

– When green really means red, improve your service monitoring

Webcast looking at accurate monitoring of the components of your IT services - smarter monitoring systems will ensure that the metrics you measure are the ones that your users experience.

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• Computer associates
• CA technology
• Service assurance
• It service monitoring
• It service monitoring
• Service assurance
• CA technology
• Computer associates
• Servers
• Enterprise
• Hardware
• Software
• Management

The "how" and "why" of virtualising core business applications

– Going Critical

The first wave of virtualisation projects are done and dusted, with many apps consolidated and running well. But the business is still looking for more...

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• Consolidation
• Virtualization
• Virtualisation
• Virtualisation
• Virtualization
• Consolidation
• Servers
• Hardware
• Software
• Management

The Co-operative on virtualisation and Windows 7

– They tell us how they're doing it

How the Co-operative discovered the volume of apps in the business and how they went through the process of selecting which ones were worth virtualising and which platform to deliver them on.

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• Apps
• Virtualisation
• Virtualization
• Windows 7
• Microsoft
• Coop
• Co op
• Cooperative
• Case study
• Case study
• Cooperative
• Co op
• Coop
• Microsoft
• Windows 7
• Virtualization
• Virtualisation
• Apps
• Networks
• Enterprise Security
• IT Director
• Servers
• Storage
• Data Networking
• Operating Systems
• Enterprise
• Hardware
• Software
• Management

Does Office 365 keep its promises?

– The verdict from people who know

Penman Designs tell us about implementing Office 365 at a large retailer - what works, what needs more work and what work you have to do to migrate.

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• Penman Designs
• Microsoft
• Office 365
• Saas
• Saas
• Office 365
• Microsoft
• Penman Designs
• Applications
• Enterprise
• Hardware
• Software
• Management
• Developer

Royal Mail opens the kimono once more

– back by public demand: this time it's private

Royal Mail's story of migration to the Cloud continued; what they are doing with their servers, why, and what we can learn from the trail they blazed.

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• Hyper V
• Virtualisation
• Servers
• Cloud
• Royal Mail
• Small Biz
• IT Director
• Public Sector
• Applications
• Enterprise
• Hardware
• Software
• Comms
• Management
• Developer

Cloud: today, tomorrow, not yet

– All or Some systems go!

Cloud isn't all or nothing: you can move the services and apps you want to move at the right time for your business. But which apps, and when?

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• Apps
• Cloud
• Star
• Star
• Cloud
• Apps
• Applications
• Enterprise
• Software
• Comms
• Management
• Developer

High Performance Computing for the masses?

– New applications, new sectors and new opportunities

It's time to start thinking creatively about HPC. Can it be standardised, commoditised and applied to more of your compute-intensive problems?

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• HPC
• High performance computing
• Virtualisation
• Cloud
• Cloud
• Virtualisation
• High performance computing
• HPC
• Enterprise
• Hardware

Windows 7 roll out - learning from the experts

– Seasoned IT pro drops in to offer tips

We thought we’d pull some experts together in our studio to give you a bit of help with your Windows 7 roll outs.

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• Windows 7
• OS
• Microsoft
• BskyB
• Computacener
• Computacener
• BskyB
• Microsoft
• OS
• Windows 7
• Operating Systems
• Applications
• Enterprise
• Software
• Comms
• Management
• Developer

The other enterprise desktop

– Because Windows can’t be everything to everyone

There are few topics in the IT industry that are more divisive than the option of putting anything other than Windows on the corporate desktop.

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• Canonical
• Open Source
• Linux
• Linux
• Open Source
• Canonical
• Operating Systems
• Applications
• Enterprise
• Software

Converged architecture brings harmony to the data centre

Vendors sing from the same hymn sheet

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• Data centre management
• Apache CloudStack
• Citrix CloudPlatform
• Converged architecture
• NetApp
• ANS Group
• FlexPod
• IT Director
• Applications
• Enterprise
• Software
• Management

Office 365 in Context

A review of drivers, needs and practicalities

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• Freeform Dynamics
• The Register
• Microsoft
• Cloud
• Office 365
• Small Biz
• Applications
• Software
• Tech Panel

A guide for BYOD policies

International data privacy legislation review

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• MobileIron
• BYOD
• Mobile device
• Policy
• Mobile

What is a DDoS attack?

Reducing the threat and mitigating the damage

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• Spam
• Dyn
• Recovery
• DoS
• DDoS
• Email
• Data Center
• Software

Data control in the cloud

Accelops: Cloud security survey results 2013

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• Accelops
• Cloud security
• IT Governance
• Data protection
• Data Security
• Small Biz
• IT Director
• Public Sector
• Applications
• Enterprise
• Software
• Security
• Management