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Going the extra mile
John Dickey, CTO of Talari Networks explains why organisations must improve the efficiency of their WANs |  |
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Mobile but managed
Stephen Midgley of Absolute Software on keeping up with the changing landscape of endpoint management
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Quality aligned IT
Ben Fry and David Rigler of SQS consider how to take the risk out of adopting new IT technology for maximum gain |  |
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Shining a light on shadow IT
Silver Peak unveils Unity, an intelligent WAN fabric designed to unify the enterprise network with the public cloud | |
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The not-so-evil twin
David Williamson of EfficientIP offers real hope for a new line of defence against DNS vulnerabilities
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Network Computing Awards 2014
This year’s Network Computing Awards took place on March 13th at the Hotel Russell in London. Here we profile some of this year’s winners:
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Welcome to the August 2014 Newsletter.
So when was the last time you hugged your server? "Server hugger", in case you didn't know (and I'll be honest, I didn't) is a term first coined by Forrester in 2011 to describe "The desire to store data in the line of sight, and reflects an enduring caution about moving data off-site or into the cloud." According to new research released this week by Iron Mountain based on interviews with senior European IT professionals, "46 per cent of IT teams will insist on keeping data close at hand on hardware they can see, touch and control when that data is confidential, sensitive, business-critical, frequently used, subject to strict regulation, newly created or of potential business value."
It's an understandable impulse (perhaps it's the 21st century equivalent of keeping your savings under your mattress!) but data and IT demands move on apace, and as the research highlights it's now becoming increasingly hard to shut the cloud out of even the most obstinate of IT departments. Just over a third (37 per cent) of Iron Mountain's respondents stated that they now include the cloud as part of a hybrid on-and off-site storage solution that includes tape, disc and cloud storage, with a further eight per cent planning to introduce cloud in the next 12 to 24 months.
The survey also highlights that it's often specific sectors that are reluctant to let their data out of their site, with one UK healthcare firm simply stating that "we are not allowed to store data anywhere else." Perhaps striking a balance with hybrid solutions and generally approaching our storage in a smarter way - as with the Tegile solution implemented in a case study in this issue - may help us loosen our grip on our on-site servers in the future. Not that the cloud doesn't have its own challenges of course - see our opinion piece from Dante Orsini of iland for more!
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