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Can you rescue your data back from the cloud?

Outsourcing contracts typically include detailed termination and transition assistance provisions that outline the provider's responsibilities regarding data return

Pondering Google Drive: Who owns your data in the cloud?

A recent uproar over the Google Drive service for consumers raised several important questions about cloud storage

Are zombies sucking the life out of your data centre?

Zombie servers can cost your company a lot of money so documentation is very important

Remote data centre management leaves users with security fears

Proponents say remote systems can be trusted

Logica CTO: cloud is the internet’s unfinished business

Cloud is not just about sharing infrastructure and software, but about sharing information, says David King

Sirius CTO: UK businesses must start tapping SME talent

Businesses can save money and implement solutions faster by working with SMEs and using open source technology, says Andrew Savory

Intel Data Centre CTO: Moore's Law is far from over

Steve Pawlowski says when Intel can no longer scale in two dimensions, it will scale in three

HP Software CTO: brokers will spur cloud adoption

The cloud brokerage model simplifies the management challenge for end users, says Ken O'Hagan

Three ways to extend your data centre with cloud services

Three ways to extend your data centre with cloud services

Data destruction - The in-depth guide

How to go about wverwriting, degaussing and physical destruction

Four ways to beat data bloat

There are ways to shed some of those unwanted terabytes

Cloud and disaster recovery: Load-balanced data centres are not a perfect solution

Centralisation of infrastructure configuration metadata is critical for disaster recovery

Citrix targets virtualisation, orchestration layers instead of "cloud washing"

Cloud or not, Citrix is continuing to provide hardware and software as it has for decades

Security concerns over a data centre in the cloud

With the data centre moving to various cloud configurations, server provisioning will be a concern

Google's BigQuery offers infrastructure to crunch big data

The BigQuery service is an online analytical processing (OLAP) system designed for terabyte-scale datasets

OpenStack may be gaining support from IBM but Iaas is still making slow headway

While midsize businesses are more willing to outsource IT compute cycles to public cloud providers, larger organisations are selectively testing the waters

Intuit brings Big Data to small businesses and consumers

The face of data science is changing, are you ready?

Azul CTO: Java is not the new Cobol

Developers will continue using the Java platform, but won't necessarily be writing in Java, says Gil Tene

Data centre management - IT versus facilities

It is important for IT departments to form strong relationships with facilities management

Data centre efficiency: The metrics that matter

Vendors are responding with new products in order to deal with rising energy costs and competition from the cloud

Who do you blame when enterprise IT breaks down?

Vendor, staff or contractor: Who's at fault?

Ain't broke, don't fix: Ancient computer systems still in use today

Powering your life from punch cards to OS/2

British Newspaper Archive: Digitising the nation's memory

A look at the technology behind the British Library's project to put 300 years of newpapers online

Crucial Oracle flaw revealed, but is the problem solved?

A design decision made by Oracle architects long ago may have painted some of Oracle's largest customers into a corner

Retailers' IT infrastructure gets a Christmas boost

Both brick-and-mortar stores and online retailersare looking at ways to manage capacity during the Christmas rush


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