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The Perfect Storm - Why Now is the time for Open Source

Section: Research

Today’s open source is increasingly recognised for its ease of use, high performance and affordability, especially amidst today’s turbulent economic conditions. According to CIO.com, 53% of businesses are already using open source. Another 10% plan to deploy in the next 12 months. In this white paper you will learn: • Why businesses are increasingly turning towards open source• The open source ... read more

Backup Solutions for SMBs: Tape vs. the Cloud

Section: Research

Tape backup has been the traditional method for routine backup and archival data storage. The decreasing price of hard disks however, has many businesses switching to disk backup or a combination of tape and disk. But local disk backups suffer from many of the same issues as tape. In addition to high hardware and administration costs, neither tape nor disk will provide disaster recovery unless they are stored off-site. Moving backups off-site increases risks in terms of security and comp ... read more

Cloud Security Management | Gartner

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Cloud computing combines new technology with unproven vendors and service providers, bringing both business benefits and potential risks. Security, reliability and manageability need to be key elements in the planning and selection processes for cloud services. read more

Cloud services make inroads into larger SMBs - Part 2

Section: Articles

Incumbent and start-up companies are both offering cloud-based solutions in record number, driven by several factors - or start-ups, the incentive is the lure of launching a business with significantly lower capital requirements that might otherwise be required, while capitalising on a growing demand. Of course, start-ups often enter into the market with new, innovative ideas long before the incumbents take that risk, and this serves to invigorate the market even more. Incumbents however, f ... read more

Enterprise Linux OS Leads the Marketplace

Section: Articles

Microsoft remains the undisputed king of the operating system marketplace, with 78.6 percent of the market in 2010, distantly followed by IBM, HP, and Oracle. But the big story isn't in who is number one, or even two, three or four. The most interesting story in the OS world is Enterprise Linux, ranking at number five according to the read more

Gmail is now a major player in cloud-based enterprise email – but is it right for your business?

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Google’s Gmail has officially become a major player in the enterprise email sector according to Gartner, but is it the right choice for your organisation? Although Gmail is currently in command of roughly one percent of the relatively small enterprise market, this represents almost one half of all online enterprise email, according to Gartner. What does this mean for your business? It means that despite being slow on the uptake, Gmail has finally become a via ... read more

Is Your Network Ready for Cloud Computing?

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The cloud is changing the way that organisations are doing business. Although there are lots of terms being used...SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, private cloud, hybrid cloud, VDI, etc, essentially all are heading down the same path into the cloud. By 2014, according to Cisco, 50% of all workloads will be processed in the cloud and Gartner's study suggests cloud service spending will be 5x overall IT spending by 2015. read more

Private clouds without the capex - Housing your private cloud within a public cloud

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It should come as no surprise that it is possible to have a private cloud within a public cloud infrastructure, in much the same way as we have virtual private networks (VPNs) over the public Internet. The most common unschooled view of the cloud is unfortunately one of confusion, with the belief that it is an amorphous collection of compute resources at an indistinct group of third party sites. That definition more closely resembles the Internet itself, however. Before addressing pub ... read more

Ten Technology Trends to Watch - Part 1

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IT organisations straining to stay atop of the latest tech developments will want to pay special attention to Gartner's recent webinar, ‘Tech Trends You Can’t Afford to Ignore.’ The IT research and advisory giant outlines ten critical trends organis ... read more

Ten Technology Trends to Watch - Part 2

Section: Articles

Gartner's recent webinar, ‘Tech Trends You Can’t Afford to Ignore,’ outlines ten key tech trends that are shaping how IT organisations do business. In this second of a two part series, we examine five more trends that organisations must watch carefully in order to thrive today and in the next few years, with specific recommendations on what organi ... read more

A fifth not PCI compliant, says Gartner

Section: News

Gartner has found that almost a fifth of firms are not compliant with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS). The research specialist believes that the gap is hugely surprising considering the importance placed on PCI DSS compliance by tech firms.Lawrence Pingree, research director at Gartner, said that it was clear from the survey results that security solution providers n ... read more

Android Platform Fails to Raise Businesses

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A lack of support from Google is cited as the main reason that many businesses won't be using the Android platform, a survey from Gartner has found. The researchers found that many firms regard Android as being too complex to manage in a survey conducted on mobile device management (MDM) software vendors. 58% of respondents said that they would make use of the iOS platform in the coming year, compared to 20% using Blackberry devices and just 9% considering Android. It's thought ... read more

CIOs 'expecting IT recession', reports Gartner

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Leading IT analyst Gartner has claimed that chief information officers (CIOs) are expecting a second recession in the sector thanks to growing turmoil in the eurozone. The company claims that, as a result, IT budgeting in 2012 will be even more important than it has been this year. Placeholder0Speaking at its annual Symposium and IT Expo, the firm's senior vice president Peter Sondergaard was reported by the Register as saying: "The second recession is about to hit and CIOs must d ... read more

Cloud and virtualization technology make biggest impact in 2011

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Cloud computing and virtualization technology have had the biggest positive impact on UK companies in 2011, according to the majority of surveyed chief information officers (CIOs). A new study commissioned by BT Engage IT has indicated that 70 per cent of CIOs felt these developments were the most important to emerge this year.A mere 13 per cent cited mobile devices such as smartp ... read more

Cloud computing insurance is 'not a liability panacea'

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Getting cyber risk insurance to cover the liabilities associated with cloud computing is not a "panacea", according to two esteemed Gartner researchers. Vice president of research Drue Reeves and research fellow Daryl Plummer have said that one of the major drawbacks of cloud computing liability insurance is its high cost. Placeholder0Writing for the Financial Times, Mr Reeves and Mr Plummer claimed that policies can cost hundreds of thousands of pounds - and that' ... read more

Cloud recovery is getting more popular, reports Gartner

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The number of businesses adopting cloud computing-based disaster recovery solutions is increasing and, according to Gartner, 30 per cent of mid-sized enterprises will be using the technology by 2014. Recovery-as-a-service (RaaS), as it is known, is a top performing market partly because of the increasing prominence of threats from hackers and malicious software. Placeholder0Gartner also believes that other reasons the technology is proving popular among medium-sized businesses is ... read more

Cloud SaaS Costs and Benefits Often Unexamined by Businesses

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It has become generally accepted that cloud based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is the most cost effective option for companies seeking to develop or augment business intelligence (BI) functions. Faced with demands for increased computing power and the challenges of constructing their own analytic solutions, IT professionals often look towards SaaS, enticed by relatively low start-up costs. A 2011 Gartner research study of 1,364 IT managers and BI pla ... read more

Gartner Datacentre Advice Disputed by InTechnology

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At the Gartner Datacentre and IT Operations Summit in November 2011, Gartner research vice-president Rakesh Kumar asserted that pressure to cut costs was driving an increase in new datacentre projects. “People are finding the capital to build 30,000 square foot plus datacentres,” stated Kumar. Kumar claimed that it was less expensive to build a new read more

Gartner Identify Cloud Computing Trends

Section: News

Gartner have identified five key cloud computing "subtrends” which businesses must factor into their planning in order to avoid expensive mistakes such as missed market opportunities in the run up to 2015. The research company point out that continual monitoring of the trends will need to be carried out as the uncertainty over the level of ad ... read more

Gartner Predict IT Trade Won't Keep Up With Demand

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Experts at Gartner have predicted that the IT trade will be unable to keep up with the demand for support, due to the "consumerisation of IT” and the explosion in BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). The sheer volume of smartphones and tablets that will be added to the work place will make it very difficult for both departmental IT managers and IT support companies to keep up. The problem, says Gartner, means that enterprises will have to ... read more