Halloween horrors: When a datacentre migration takes a dark turn
In this guest post, Drew Nielsen, chief trust officer at cloud-based backup provider Druva, shares a scary and hairy tale about how shortfalls in any company's...
Datacentre managers on how to address the shortage of women and young people entering the industry
CNet Training and Anglia Ruskin University invited Ahead in the Clouds along to their recent boot camp to lead a two-way discussion with its Datacentre Leadership and Management students about how to address the industry's skills gap. Here's all you need to know about what got...
How VMware is tackling the challenges of doing business in the hybrid, multi-cloud era
VMworld US 2016 suggests VMware is under no illusions about the challenges it faces, as its traditional customers cede control for IT buying to line of business units and start exploring their multi-cloud options. “There’s no such thing as challenges, only...
Think the Open Compute Project isn’t for you? Think again
In this guest post, James Bailey, director of datacentre hardware provider Hyperscale IT, busts some enterprise-held myths about the Open Compute Project
Market watcher Gartner predicts the overall public cloud market will grow by 16.5%...
Using the Working Set to improve datacentre workload efficiency
In this guest post, Pete Koehler, technical marketing engineer for PernixData, explains why datacentre operators need to get a handle on the Working Set concept to find out what's really going on in their facilities.
Addressing the datacentre skills gap by changing the cloud conversation
Ahead in the Clouds recently attended a tour of IO's modular datacentre facility in Slough, along with a handful of PhD students from University College London (UCL).
The event's aim was to open up the datacentre to a group of people who...
The benefits of adopting a “what if…?” approach to datacentre management
In this guest post, Zahl Limbuwala, CEO of datacentre optimisation software supplier Romonet, explains why IT departments should be employing a more philosophical approach when solving business issues
The question "what if...?" is often...