I have been working with a large media company over the past twelve months. I have been assisting in showing which parts of their business Symantec can help them better deliver their Service levels.  The organization in question has a very large estate ...

Cloud computing has long been a buzz word in the IT sector. A seemingly fitting definition of cloud is “a model for enabling convenient, on demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and ...

When we talk about TRIM we aren’t referring to losing a few founds after Christmas, although I could certainly use that. TRIM refers to Solid State Drive and Flash technologies,  which are now becoming more prevalent in Data Centres as well as our ...

This week Telefonica the owner of O2 have controversially announced they will start selling their O2 mobile customer data to third parties. Through Telefonica's Dynamic Insights business unit they are looking to drive revenue out of mining data to ...

It's clear from both talking to our customers and reading the analysts reports that cloud is here to stay. Most customers I speak with are looking at some form of cloud services in their organizations. This tends to vary from something as simple as ...

I spend a lot of time with customers discussing the value of using Storage Foundation. A question I get asked a lot these days is "Brian that all sounds great, but what do I need to do to install it on existing systems". This is a very good ...

I have been working for Symantec for more years than I care to remember. I joined through the Veritas acquisition some 6 years ago. In that time the datacenter has changed incredibly, before joining Veritas I was a systems administrator, this was long ...

Storage Tiering is a fairly well known concept in IT. Like many of these technologies It can often take many years before these cool concepts make it into the mainstream. Thin provisioning is a good example of this. I remember meeting 3PAR and them going ...

  There is a strong Trend in IT towards converged infrastructures. This is really the proliferation of a number of hardware vendors. Putting their solutions together in a rack and selling it as a complete solution of Storage, Servers and ...

There has recently been a lot of noise in the IT fraternity about Big Data. It has the makings of the latest IT buzz word in the same way as cloud was so misused over the past few years. Big data refers to a way of storing and analysing huge volumes ...