Understanding software assets is an essential first step when considering a move to pay-as-you-go or Cloud services from traditional licenses. Read ITCandor's assessment of how Cnetrix hopes to help. Read more »
IBM Global Services Launches Building Block Outsourcing – A Bridge To Cloud Computing
IBM announced a new building block approach to its outsourcing business today. Read ITCandor's analysis of the implications, comparisons and chances for success. Read more »
HP’s New CEO Proposes The ‘Everybody On’ Strategy For Cloud And Connected Futures
HP's new CEO Léo Apotheker and his executive team announced the company's new stategy. Read ITCandor's analysis of each division's approach chances of success. Read more »
IBM Smarter Computing – ‘Big Data In Optimized Systems, Managed As A Cloud’
IBM is ahead of other vendors when it comes to understanding the linkeage between workloads and servers and is learning how to integrate its hardware, software and services into new types of computer. Read ITCandor's analysis of how it is expanding its definition of the system in what it terms 'Smarter Computing'. Read more »
Everything Everywhere – T Mobile And Orange’s UK Experiment
ITCandor's update on the creation of Everything Everywhere in the UK by T Mobile and Orange. Read more »
2X Software – Fixing Back-End Issues For Desktop Virtualisation And Cloud Computing
Desktop and application virtualisation can be very difficult for users to implement. Read ITCandor's interview with 2X Software, which understands the underlying infrastructure challenges and offers cost effective software. Read more »
Cisco – John Chambers Outlines Strategies And Direction At Cisco Live! And C-Scape
Cisco's CEO John Chambers presented the company's strategy and values at Cisco Live! and its C-Scape analyst meeting held in London's Excel conference centre this week. Read ITCandor's analysis of its challenges going forward. Read more »
IBM System Z Mips Shows Increased Centralisation And A Return To Growth
ITCandor publishes its initial Mips Model for IBM System z mainframes. It will help you understand how this server business is developing over time. Read more »
Microsoft And HP Deliver Business And Enterprise Apppliances
Microsoft and HP have spent 3 years and $250 million in major collaborative activities. Today they announce 'appliance' strategy and offerings. Read ITCandor's analysis of what it means. Read more »
Symantec Fills Out Appliance Strategy With NetBackup 5200 And FileStore N8300
Symantec continues to build out its appliance strategy, which it sees as a third delivery mechanism alongside software licensing and Cloud Services. Read ITCandor's analysis of the consequences for users and channels. Read more »
IBM And Red Hat Talk Up KVM, Linux And Cloud
KVM is an important hypervisor and will compete storngly with VMWare and Microsoft now it has been incorporated in Red Hat's RHEV product. Read this report about IBM and Red Hat's promotion of Linux and KVM, as well as ITCandor's views of the state of Open Source software. Read more »
Virtustream – Delivering Advanced Managed Services Via Cloud Computing And IaaS
Virtustream are a long term provider of IaaS and Cloud Computing - offering ERP and other mission critical services. Their partnerships include Jersey Telecom. They're very important as the first of a new type of Cloud managed service provider. Read more »
PalmTree’s LiveEnsure – Cloud Computing SaaS Authentication
PalmTree has just launched LiveEnsure - entering the SaaS market with a service designed to provide lower prices for Cloud Computing developers. ITCandor also discovered the new strategy came as a result of the credit crunch. Read more »
Is Ingres 10 The Answer For Future Open Source Databases?
Ingres is an interesting alternative in the Open Source database and enterprise software areas. ITCandor looks into the opportunities. Read more »
Symantec Launches Hardware Appliances – A Non-Cloud Form Of IT Simplification
Symantec is entering the hardware market through the introduction of its NetBackup 5000 and Filestore N8000 appliances. ITCandor looks the simplification, integration and channel issues. Read more »
HP Acquires 3Par For $2.35 Billion – Expensive, But Positive, News
HP needs 3Par to improve growth rates in its storage systems business. In this article ITCandor looks at the growth rates of leading suppliers and discusses current trends. Read more »
The Sanctuary Group – Successful Virtual Client Deployment In A Large Dispersed Enterprise
The Sanctuary Group is a large 'social landlord' charity based in the UK. It has long and successful experience of deploying virtualisation - especially Terminal Services. Ben Andrews has some excellent observations for those of us considering the future of the corporate desktop. Read more »
NGD’s Data Centre Goes 100% Alternative Energy Supply With SmartestEnergy
NGD has signed a deal with SmartestEnergy to provide electricity only from renewable generation at its data centre site in Wales. ITCandor looks at this from government and CSR perspectives. Read more »
Intel vPro – In Praise Of Fat Clients
Physical PCs have some interesting and developing advantages over virtual clients. Intel's vPro enhancements will be good for business as long as software companies address its new hardware additions. Read more »
Fujitsu Opens ‘London North’ Data Centre And Launches IaaS Services
Fujitsu has a new award-winning data centre in the UK. Designated 'London North' it is the first in Europe to attain the Uptime Institute's Tier III accreditation. It is also launching IaaS Cloud computing services. Read more »