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The article explores strategies for optimizing Software Asset Management (SAM) budgets in complex IT environments that include on-premise software, cloud applications, and Software as a Service (SaaS). It highlights the challenges of managing diverse software assets and provides guidance on avoiding overspending by utilizing effective SAM tools, integrating SaaS management, and addressing hidden costs.

The article explores the impact of supplier lock-in on cloud skills and how organizations can mitigate these effects. Topics discussed include the necessity of balancing in-house expertise with external support, the benefits of multicloud strategies and cloud-agnostic tools, and strategies for leveraging supplier training and large language models for skills transfer.

The article offers information on the challenges posed by misconfigured containers in cloud security, often stemming from shortcuts in cloud and container adoption strategies. Topics include the impact of technical and tactical migrations on risk management and business outcomes, highlighted by Drew Firment from PluralSight.

The article focuses on the importance of integrating biodiversity into sustainability efforts, noting that while information technology (IT) providers are addressing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) requirements, biodiversity is often overlooked; it reports that experts emphasize the need for increased awareness of technology's emissions contribution and its potential role in achieving net-zero goals, including regulatory measures like the U.K. biodiversity net gain requirements.

The article focuses on the rising importance of managing complexity in hybrid cloud environments, with IT leaders considering factors like cost and specific needs when deciding between public cloud and on-premise deployments. It discusses the challenges of defining requirements and achieving interoperability in heterogeneous IT environments, emphasizing the flexibility offered by hybrid cloud solutions provided by major service firms like HPE, IBM, Dell Services, Microsoft, and Google.

More than 1,600 channel movers and shakers under one roof for one night only: that was the CRN Channel Awards 2014. In one sense, these celebrations mark the end of [...]

The article discusses the potential benefits of implementing a national cloud strategy following an Ofcom review, as suggested by industry experts interviewed by Computer Weekly. Bill McLuggage, managing director of Laganview Associates, highlights concerns about the dominance of major players like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, emphasizing issues such as data egress and lack of open standards for infrastructure and platform services.

The article focuses on the skills crisis in the UK datacentre industry and explores the need to attract candidates from diverse backgrounds, such as career changers, due to insufficient talent coming from trade-school and university graduate pipelines. Topics include challenges in gender diversity, marketing and education strategies for the datacentre industry, and recommendations for broader recruitment strategies, emphasizing the importance of attributes and affinity over specific skills.

The article focuses on the challenges of IT operations (ITOps) in achieving successful software and service delivery for digital transformation, emphasizing the importance of addressing "people" problems in addition to tooling and technical considerations. It highlights the need for effective communication, continuous feedback, and collaboration between developer teams and business stakeholders to bridge the gap between expectations and delivery.

'Then from his high couch our forefather Aeneas began: 'O queen, you command me to renew unspeakable grief, how the Greeks destroyed the riches of Troy, and the sorrowful kingdom, [...]

More than 80 per cent of large organisations and 60 per cent of small firms in the UK suffer at least one security breach every year, and most are caused [...]

On 26 August, Seagate shipped its first 8TB SSD, said to provide 8TB in a single drive slot for maximum rack density within an existing footprint to address an ever-increasing [...]

It's summer, and time therefore for a summery feature. Failing access to an around-the-clock pipeline of Pimm's, what better than a trip to the glorious south-west to discover channel life [...]

Everywhere, business customers have migrated or are about to migrate into the cloud to get the benefits of teaming up with IT partners on a grander scale than ever before. [...]

Is fog computing just another marketing buzz phrase or a legitimate trend for the channel to follow? Fleur Doidge explores the edge of a cloudy concept Whatever next? First we [...]

The article focuses on the ongoing growth and consolidation in the UK datacentre industry, including colocation services, despite previous concerns of a potential downturn; mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and partnerships involving major players like Equinix, Digital Realty, NTT, and Telehouse; and the factors driving this consolidation, such as sustainability, and climate compliance.

The article discusses the impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on datacenters. It exploring concerns about power consumption, resource requirements and security implications; the potential benefits of generative AI in improving efficiency and productivity; and also caution about the need for careful implementation and transparency in AI and machine learning projects within datacenters.

The article focuses on service mesh as a layer of Information Technology (IT) infrastructure for controlling service-to-service communication, particularly in cloud-native architectures. Topics include the use of service mesh to optimize data communications between containers, the potential reduction of complex IT management headaches, and the security benefits it provides.

The article discusses six ways for businesses to remain productive and competitive while working towards green goals. Topics include experts advise organizations that reducing information technology (IT) emissions can lead to sustainability and competitiveness but will require a different way of thinking; and sustainability efforts to improve IT choices, focusing on software to reduce emissions, and making sustainability part of the design process.

The article presents the discussion on customers assuming cyber security. Topics include exploring checks and balances not easily walking inside Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS) datacentres; and need a different approach for onpremise coming to managing applications, data and solutions.

The article addresses the growing dominance of the three big cloud providers, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Topics discussed include the Office of Communications' plan to investigate competition in cloud services, monopolistic tendency in public cloud, and industry players' argument that any threats might be more theoretical than real.

The article discusses that according to an expert at cloud database firm Couchbase, some enterprise respondents report that the cloud services they adopted did not meet expectations, with concerns for cost, availability, and security. He thinks that the transition to the cloud often remains challenging, and even when cloud providers can deliver better services than the customer can do within their environment and the service-level agreements are stringent, customers can still have concerns.

The article focuses on the use of cloud-based applications and platforms by water conservation and management utilities. Topics discussed include the use of a water intelligence venture to address the full water-use cycle by Amazon Web Services in collaboration with Accenture and Ecopetrol, and the use of cloud computing by Yorkshire Water for developing and improving predictive monitoring and maintenance capabilities.

Byline: Fleur Doidge 'If you are not careful, you can grow your company to death,' the author of the 2010 book Smart Growth, Ed Hess, says. 'Bigger is not always [...]

Byline: Fleur Doidge Back in 2007, one slightly desperate-sounding IT professional contacted Tom's Hardware when his boss ordered him to source a US-made computer containing no parts made in China, [...]

Byline: Fleur Doidge It's enough to make you give up on digital technology and retreat to analogue. Handwritten or printed notes, under the right conditions, can last centuries, and nothing [...]

Byline: Fleur Doidge As the saying goes: 'It's highway robbery.' Online trading might have proved itself in recent years, with more businesses and consumers opting to buy online, but fulfilment [...]

Byline: Fleur Doidge Back in August, ANS Group chairman Scott Fletcher was becoming rather aerated about the prominence not being accorded to Manchester - as opposed to London - by [...]

Byline: Fleur Doidge In the Chinese horoscope, 2012 was the year of the black water dragon - traditionally considered to be an unpredictable year, because people cannot see the dragon's [...]

Byline: Fleur Doidge Some say we have now entered a post-PC era. That does not mean, sadly, we no longer have to act in a politically correct manner; what they [...]

The article discusses how to create a multi-year datacentre capacity plan. It highlights that multi-year datacentre planning is more constrained than ever, with equipment and construction lead times lengthening against a background of rising requirements around storage, power and compute. It notes that power, cooling and space parameters should be assessed as a whole to adjust datacentre capacity based on business needs, demands and dynamics.

The article discusses UK government's plan to increase production of hydrogen by the end of year 2022. Topics discussed including emerging hydrogen fuel-cell technologies offering potential for backup loads; developing fuel cells as a primary datacentre power system, inverting the usual approach by using grid energy as the backup power source; and storing hydrogen at a very low cost and for a long interval of time.

Byline: Fleur Doidge The top-line channel announcement from Fujitsu's annual rest-of-world talkfest in Munich was of its new fourth Select partner programme tier, currently dubbed the Value Channel. The vendor [...]

Byline: Fleur Doidge The channel should watch out for 3D printing, according to Futurizon futurologist Ian Pearson. This sounds like a remark set to raise more than a few eyebrows, [...]

Byline: Fleur Doidge The problem of big data is an open-ended question without clear boundaries or definition. Yet it appears that open source may hold at least part of the [...]

Byline: Fleur Doidge Does your customer really need an office? Once upon a time the answer seemed obvious and the question itself rather stupid. However, as cost pressures increase along [...]

Byline: Fleur Doidge Technology providers of all sizes are urged to attend this year's CRN Channel Conference at the Thistle Marble Arch Hotel - not least because they will get [...]

Byline: Fleur Doidge It's a creaky old adage that true teamwork cannot be achieved unless the needs of the group take priority over those of the individual: 'There's no 'I' [...]

Byline: Fleur Doidge A Chinese proverb notes that there are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. The road to success for [...]

Byline: Fleur Doidge Cloud computing has long been able to boast of being one of the more confusing and opaque tech trends in the industry. Unfortunately, however, it is also [...]