One of the most important server hosting decisions you will make concerns server management. Will you manage your own server, or will you let a team of experienced server administrators carry some of the load for you? Your decision will have a big impact on the server hosting experience, so I’d...

Infrastructure is a strategic asset, and forward-thinking businesses plan infrastructure deployments based on future needs, and not on what they happen to require in the short term. Short-termism can limit the ability of a business to move quickly with a changing market and to innovate. Planning...

Cloud platforms are both an enabler and a driver of an IT-as-a-Service approach to enterprise infrastructure delivery. Without the inherent flexibility and cost advantages of cloud platforms, there would be little motivation to change from the old delivery model — cloud enables ITaaS. Without...

As businesses transition from traditionally-licensed enterprise software to software-as-a-service applications hosted in the cloud, the security of the application layer becomes ever more critical.

Protecting the application layer is often beyond the scope of traditional intrusion...

A full-scale cloud migration of existing business infrastructure is a daunting prospect for established enterprise organizations, especially if business critical systems run perfectly well on legacy infrastructure.

However, an organization’s development projects can often be divided into...

Any large enterprise organization has a wide variety of infrastructure requirements. CFOs must carefully balance IT budgets with the resources and requirements of the company, while ensuring that sufficient IT infrastructure is available to service the company’s greater objectives.

CFOs...