Category Archives: Data Centre Services

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Following the UK’s vote to leave the EU, Richard Alexander asks how Brexit might affect data sovereignty for CIOs based in the UK. Over the last few years we have discussed frequently the issue of data sovereignty, in particular in relation to Cloud Computing. Some the key issues we have covered have included: Vague locations, possible […]

Steve Pelletier looks at how flash storage’s ability to accelerate time-to-information could make it a key weapon for business and IT professionals seeking to deliver for IT infrastructure transformations that strike the right balance between performance and cost. Today’s IT organisations face huge challenges.  Issues like the ever-increasing array of applications, virtualisation, the cloud, and […]

Kevin Gruneisen, Senior Director, Cloud and Data Center Solutions, Logicalis US explains why resolving on-premise infrastructure issues is a vital precursor to any successful journey to the cloud. More and more companies are establishing cloud strategies as the benefits of a move away from on-premise continue to crystalise.  But how many, have included in that […]

In a recent post entitled SDN. A fad, like 3D-TV? Only in technology defined enterprises, I described the impact of software defined networking (and indeed software defined data centres) thus: “SDN, and software defined other things like Data Centre, will be the biggest transformation in how we design, deploy, operate and provision IT services in […]

Vince DeLuca, CEO Logicalis US, wonders which of the seven main ‘aaS’ (as a service) applications will underpin service-led transformation as CIOs strive to maintain their own relevance in the face of the increased influence of line of business managers. The ‘as a service’ model seems likely to continue its relentless march into the mainstream […]

Bob Mobach, Practice Director, Data Center Solutions, Logicalis US argues today’s data centres are struggling to keep up with the sheer pace of change in enterprise technology – and that a new, more strategic approach to data centre planning is required. There’s no getting away from it, the pressures on today’s data centers are building. […]

Kevin Gruneison, Senior Director Data Centre Solutions at Logicalis Inc, explains why a move to a converged infrastructure is as much about different thinking as it is about different technology. In a recent blog post entitled The Virtualisation Journey. Part 2 – Brave new world, my colleague Alex Watson-Jackson made an excellent point.  Namely that […]