Fujitsu have designed a new modular server made from nodes and cooled by funnels, allowing data centres to do away with 'hot aisles' Read ITCandor's take on its announcement. Read more »
IBM Expands Its Cloud Computing Offerings – Highlights The Differences In Regional Adoption
On March 16th 2010 IBM announced new Cloud Computing services and resources. ITCandor analyses what they mean in terms of the development of this important market. Read more »
Fasthosts Brings Cloud Computing ‘Data Centre On Demand’ To SMBs Through Channel Partners
Fasthosts is expanding its business to launch Cloud Computing offerings to Small and Medium Businesses. In this article Martin looks at their approach and the likelihood of success Read more »
Is HP Missing SMB Opportunities By Focusing On Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing?
Martin rounds up three recent Cloud Computing announcements from HP and suggests it is missing the opportunities among SMBs. Read more »
‘Matrix Integration’ And Its Effects On The IT Industry
ITCandor introduces a new theme - Matrix Integration. In this analyst report Martin talks about long term changes to vendor strategies and approaches and sees commonality in recent movements away from horizontal integration. Read more »
Electricity Price Arbitrage In Cloud And Other Data Centre Location Decisions
The price of electricity will play a growing role in the decision about where to site future large data centres. In this article Martin discusses the issue brought up by Microsoft's David McCann. Read more »
Chilled Out HP Cuts CO2 Emissions With Fresh Air Cooling In Its New Wynyard Data Centre
HP is in the process of installing its very first customer at its brand new Wynyard data centre. Martin had a look round and thinks fresh air cooling is a valuable contribution to CSR. Read more »
Vision Solutions Double-Take Software Steps Into Cloud Computing With Amazon EC2 – Promises ‘Recovery as a Service’
Double-Take Software are partnering with Amazon's EC2 to take the first steps towards providing 'Recovery as a Service'. In this interview with Peter Laudenslager Martin outlines the approach. Read more »
ITCandor 2010 Expectations – Cloud, Gaming And Convergence Drives The Recovery
Producing expectations for 2010 is a good way to let you know what we'll be studying. In this report Martin, helped by other 'Henry Fellows' gives 10 insights into what to look forward to. Read more »
Copenhagen Summit Fails – CSR (Not Legislation) Will Drive ITC Industry Behaviour For Now
The Copenhagen Summit failed to deliver significant results. As a result Martin thinks that CSR activities by ITC suppliers and CIOs will become more important, even if addressing carbon taxation is now less urgent. Read more »
CIOs Need To Watch Copenhagen Results
Martin's fingers are crossed for positive results from the Copenhagen Summit today. Read more »
Cloud Computing – An Essential Subject For CIOs In 2010
Addressing Cloud Computing is hard and yet it will be a difficult subject for CIOs to avoid in 2010. Martin explains why and offers a free evaluation service to help. Read more »
Copenhagen Climate Change Summit And ITC
MArtin invites comments on the technology issues surrounding the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. Read more »
FNZ’s ‘Platform As A Service’ Offering – Wholesale Wealth Management And Cloud Computing
FNZ provides an aggreagator service for Financial Services companies in the Wealth Management area. In this article Martin describes why this is important to the development of Cloud Computing. Read more »
Fujitsu Technology Solutions Strategy Offers Cloud Computing And Dynamic Infrastructures
Fujitsu Technology Solutions (FTS) hosted its Visit 09 conference in Munich in November. In this report Martin outlines its strategy and gives his opinions. Read more »
NGD Offers Cloud Computing Data Centre Warehousing From Wales
If you want to host Cloud Computing applications - 'X' as a Service - you're going to need a site to run them from. In this analyst report Martin points you to a corner of South Wales where you can do this. Read more »
Refurbish, Recycle, Repurpose – New Roles For ITC Equipment In A Downturn
Martin looks at the role of the disposal channel in the downturn and concludes that second user equipment is growin in importance. Read more »
Cisco To Acquire ScanSafe – SaaS Security For Cloud Computing
Cisco is buying ScanSafe. It's also about to announce its quarterly financial results. Martin analyses the state of acquisitions at Cisco and its regional revenue growth. Read more »
Symantec – Enabling The Shift From ‘System’ To ‘Information’ Centric IT With Cloud Computing
Symantec is extending its portfolio by addressing the nascent Cloud Computer market. In this analyst report Martin outlines its strategy and provides an overview of its market position and acquisitions. Read more »
The Xen Cloud Platform Initiative Aims For Open Source Links Between Private And Public Cloud Computing
Xen.org is developing Open Source means of connecting private and public Cloud Computing. In this analyst report Martin talks about the challenges data centre managers have in addressing these developments, while pointing out the importance of virtualisation and this developing ecosystem. Read more »