Category Archives: Cloud Computing

As data centre hardware lead times stretch out to 52 weeks, companies face the stark choice of either pausing projects or finding an alternative. The semi-conductor industry recently garnered international attention as the world discovered that the technology that enables remote working and business continuity are powered by chips. The sudden increase in demand for […]

Leaders around the globe are realising, “I won’t exist if I am not in the Cloud”. A stark reality, but one realised by many leaders, as Satya Nadella shared in his interview with Morgan Stanley. I­t’s a lesson that may have been learnt given time, but one that’s been accelerated by the pandemic. The critical […]

A key component to the pandemic response, most businesses were forced to move their operations at least in part to the cloud to enable secure remote working. As we begin to emerge from the pandemic and businesses reassess their needs, there is an opportunity for them to look to leverage the benefits of Big Data […]

The most successful organisations find strength in adversity. 2020 brought more of that than the business community has seen in a generation, and the most forward-looking businesses are already learning how to rebuild stronger than before. Seizing the opportunity to innovate in the cloud is critical to that process, serving not only as a tool […]

As the Nobel prize winning physicist Niels Bohr once said, “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”  If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that circumstances can swiftly change in unexpected ways, impossible to predict. As we reflect on a turbulent year and look ahead to a post-pandemic scenario, there are several fundamental technologies […]

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 […]

David Angradi, Director, Software Defined Data Centre Solutions, Logicalis US looks at how implementing a software-defined data centre (SDDC) can have a dramatic effect on how long it takes you to start generating income. Following a recent SDDC implementation a Logicalis client – a SaaS provider – slashed the time it took to provision new […]

The massive increase in the use of cloud-based applications is having a corresponding effect on the number of IT suppliers an organisation has to deal with. And it’s not just IT – line of business is finding solutions from cloud-based vendors too. That of course, is nothing we didn’t already know. But how do we […]

Brian Day, Director of Solution Development for Logicalis US, looks at the business benefits of DevOps in the cloud and concludes that CxOs should be making sure their teams are addressing this important area. As IT becomes more responsive to ever-changing business needs, the DevOps (development and operations) philosophy – more of an organisational cultural change than […]

As CIOs begin a fightback against Shadow IT, engaging with line of business to reshape IT departments as internal service providers, Joanne Nelson looks at their technology priorities. Social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies, collectively known as SMAC, have garnered a great deal of media attention over the last 12 months. But is this hype reflected […]