CXO Unplugged | 15th February 2021
Most IT directors have been fighting an ongoing battle to keep technology infrastructures from suffering a cataclysmic breakdown for years. There never seems to be enough time, staff or the resource to complete proactive strategic projects that IT directors want to do that would help to move the business forward. Though they typically spend most […]
Ruediger Rath | 3rd April 2017
In this latest blog in a series deconstructing the Logicalis Global CIO study, Ruediger Rath, Head of Europe for Logicalis, explores SMACS and its disruptive powers in business. SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) is the idea that four technologies are driving business innovation in our new digitally defined world. However, these game-changing technologies are for […]
Richard Alexander | 23rd January 2017
According to PwC’s annual Global State of Information Security Survey, UK businesses are spending an average £6.2m every year on IT security (up from £3m in 2015). Richard Alexander, CTO for Logicalis UK, digs deeper. In many cases IT security spend is burning a cavernous hole in company balance sheets – without necessarily giving businesses much […]
Rodrigo Parreira | 9th January 2017
Rodrigo Parreira looks at the model that data behemoths like Google, Facebook and Amazon adopted to cope with a requirement to process and store huge quantities of big data – a model that is on the verge of going mainstream – and asks “how do they do it?” In the early 2000s, IT giants like Google, […]
Oliver Descoeudres | 11th April 2016
Oliver Descoeudres, Logicalis Australia, looks at the security challenges inherent in delivering the more open environments that are a consequence of IT consumerisation and diverse demand for apps and services – and how CIOs can respond. The consumerisation of technology, the rapid rise of Shadow IT and the emergence of digital means the CIO and CTO […]
Kama Pathy | 2nd March 2015
Kama Pathy, Technical Director, Logicalis Singapore argues that legacy backup solutions create unnecessary drag for organisations trying to adopt lean and efficient IT infrastructure, and points out that Backup-as-a-Service offers a streamlined, efficient solution. In our new IT reality, where the challenge is to balance increased performance with lower cost and greater operational efficiency, many […]