ANALYST REPORT:
The dread of any IT manager is in making a significant purchase of hardware or software to then find that they are 'locked in' to one supplier. But analyst Clive Longbottom asks, is this still the case?
ESSENTIAL GUIDE:
Computer Weekly's CW500 Club heard from IT leaders plotting a roadmap to software-defined everything – this presentation was given by Rob White, executive director of the global database group at Morgan Stanley.
EGUIDE:
In 2015, hyper-converged architectures certainly lived up to the hype with many organizations addressing this change with new platforms. So is 2016 the year to hyper-converge your architecture? In this exclusive e-guide, storage expert George Crump outlines the benefits as well as some areas of concern surrounding hyper-converged infrastructures.
EBOOK:
A network automation roadmap can help guide organizations through the Wild West of modern networking in order to reap benefits that automation can bring to employees, customers and partners. Reducing labor-intensive tasks does entail changing a network engineer's work, though.
EGUIDE:
In this e-guide: Simplifying the deployment and management of datacentre hardware systems is one of the main draws of converged and hyper-converged infrastructure setups for enterprises.
EGUIDE:
Machine learning examples are finally making their way to the home territory of computer science – the data center. Learn why data centers are an ideal environment for machine learning and explore examples of machine learning found in data centers.
EZINE:
In this week's Computer Weekly, Dell's proposed $67bn acquisition of EMC would be the biggest in the history of IT – we assess the implications. £175bn of IT outsourcing contracts come up for renewal in the next three years- what are your options? And we hear from IT leaders about security and the internet of things. Read the issue now.
EBOOK:
Access this expert e-book chapter to discover the types of building blocks available for virtualization infrastructures – including reference architectures, converged infrastructures, and hyper-converged infrastructures. Find out when to use each type and the benefits of each type.
EGUIDE:
In this expert guide, George Crump outlines the state of flash storage systems, and demonstrates how to use NVMe and flash DIMM to proactively keep performance ahead of users' expectations. Read on as Crump also predicts the fate of HDDs, and explains how to keep pace by improving internal and external connectivity.
EBOOK:
ADCs are fundamental networking hardware tools. They've long filled the role of traffic cop, routing the flow of data, but new tech developments are expanding their capabilities. This handbook examines the new app delivery controller and what it can do.
