Cloud Computing

Delphix Virtual Database Provides Benefits for Agile DevelopmentDelphix, a venture founded in 2008 by ex-EMC employees, launched its virtualised database to market in 2010. The Delphix Agile Data Platform is designed to appeal to the agile development community whose pace of working is faster than traditional development processes. Agile developers ... read more..

InfoSec Needs Greater Business RelevanceInfoSec must change. Vendors currently spend three days selling themselves at the show, but the needs of business organisations and their users must become the top priority. Rather than delivering a sprawl of disconnected technologies, the show needs to have more of a business and industry ... read more..

24 April 2012, Networking SeminarDownload the presentation slidesIan Jones, NCCJason Meers, cloud computing lead consultantChris Burn, PA Consulting, cloud technologies lead consultantThis seminar explores the transition to cloud computing. Are you under pressure to make the much hyped strategic shift to the cloud? Unfortunately, you cant start with a blank ... read more..

EMC Opens a New Channel for Private CloudsAccording to the definition, a private cloud can range from a small group of virtualised servers to a large, highly automated infrastructure that gives application owners self-service access to resources, with charge-back billing to business departments. Either way, private clouds offer multiple benefits ... read more..

Big Data Creates Demand for Analytics SkillsThe emergence of big data promises to create IT jobs, with business intelligence (BI) and analytics expertise the key drivers. As big data increasingly becomes part of corporate IT strategies and infrastructure, organisations will be on the lookout for specialist analytics skills to unlock ... read more..

IT Really Does MatterBig changes are brewing on the CIO horizon, as the days of internal IT cost-cutting appear to be numbered. There is only so much an enterprise can save through infrastructure efficiency and commodity panel contracts. The next big wave will centre on productivity, innovation and a renewed ... read more..

Adoption Trends in Sustainability SoftwareSustainability is moving up corporate priority lists, driven by regulation, supply chain risk, customer pressure and investor pressure, among other factors. Managing for sustainability is too complex for manual methods; it requires IT-based automation to be effective. But the market for sustainability management solutions is highly ... read more..

Date: March-June 2012 (various dates)Time: DayLocation: NationwideCost: Free of ChargeEnrol: Click hereOverview: This year, Tech.Days events for IT implementers and professionals are changing. We are bringing information, ideas and inspiration to your doorstep with a series of IT camp workshops across the country. The camps are designed to deliver more ... read more..

March 2012CatalystPublic cloud service provider Amazon Web Services (AWS), a wholly owned subsidiary of e-retail company Amazon, has had a huge impact on the IT industry by introducing a new on-demand, self-service approach to IT infrastructure services. It has become the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider to emulate and ... read more..

Iceland to Become a Low-Cost Data Centre DestinationIceland's new and unique multi-tenant data centre will be an attractive low-cost destination for many IT workloads eventually. UK co-location provider Verne Global built the facility on a former Nato base near Keflavik airport, with modular IT infrastructure from Colt Technology. Verne ... read more..

The Increasing Complexity of Application Integration Calls for New ApproachesOrgansations are deploying a wider range of applications in different deployment models, and often finding that seamless integration is the key for realisation of the true business value of these investments. The traditional approaches to application integration have failed to deliver ... read more..

Cloud Services Business Trends Survey: Summary ResultsThis presentation summarises results from our recent Cloud Services Business Trends Survey of 200 CIOs/IT decision makers across the US, the UK, France and Germany. Download PDF articleEnterprises Refine their Tablet Adoption StrategiesEnterprises are moving from reactive, fashion-led deployment of tablets to mature, role-based, ... read more..

The catalyst for continual service improvementJune2011CatalystIT functions need management frameworks and enabling technologies to help to deliver high-quality IT services and cost efficiencies in order to demonstrate delivered business value and increase IT-to-business engagement.Key findingsIT organisations need a back-to-basics and phased approach to IT services management (ITSM).Transitioning to ITIL v3 ... read more..

Information SecurityInformation security is now a challenge throughout the enterprise, and not just at gateways on the edge of networks. In particular the use of a large number of diverse types of endpoint devices is making the endpoint one of the most vulnerable pieces of the entire enterprise IT infrastructure. ... read more..

Date: Tuesday 24th January 2012Time: 08.30 - 10.30am (GMT)Location: LondonCost: Free of ChargeEnrol: Click hereOverview: There's so much to learn about moving your business to the cloud - and Sapphire Systems want to help. Step Up to the Cloud is a FREE education breakfast briefing where you will learn everything ... read more..

Revisiting the NIST Definition of Cloud ComputingWhen Ovum first looked at cloud computing in early 2010, the debate was still raging as to what exactly cloud computing was supposed to be. There were so many definitions that we decided not to add yet another one. Instead, our Cloud Computing Will ... read more..

enterprise cloud computing Sean McAvan from Datapipe explores how the cloud can realistically drive productivity, reduce costs and improve ROI. Most enterprises are more than aware of the potential benefits of the cloud, but few believe that it currently offers a panacea. At a simplistic level, the ability to marry ... read more..

Media release PA Consulting Group and The National Computing Centre (NCC) launch new Guidelines 12th October 2011 PA Consulting Group and The NCC have launched a new set of guidelines to help organisations identify both the potential and the pitfalls of cloud computing. The guidelines in the report show ... read more..

Chatter challenges the new world of social mediaSalesforce.com has unveiled its new Chatter Servicethis allows enterprises to integrate and use publicly available information about their customers via social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook with their CRM.Chatter Service is intended to improve the customers experience because enterprises have ... read more..

cloud computing The pros and cons of cloud computing may be regularly debated by the IT team but what about the rest of the business? How many financial directors (FDs) are still afraid to take the plunge? Most are familiar with the compelling benefits of lower capital expenditure, improved financial ... read more..

security Looking ahead, cloud computing and its subsequent incarnations will change the way IT is delivered for all categories of business, from consumer and SME to large enterprise, but for the moment were still seeing only a cautious uptakeJulian Dyer takes a look at the key inhibitors. In todays competitive ... read more..

July 2011 Best Practice Outsourcing Best Practice A guide to outsourcing based on the outputs of NCCs Professionalism Programme Cloud computing overcoming the key inhibitors an NCC Guideline These Guidelines define cloud the way a lay person might, then they drill down into the issues associated with ... read more..

7 July 2011 Download the presentations Introduction (141KB PDF) Ian Jones, NCC Managing data in the era of the cloud (5.4MB PDF) Gareth Fraser-King, Head of Global Technical Enablement Symantec and Cloud ... read more..

In challenging economic times a low cost, low hassle service is very attractive to executive boards, especially as the most well known providers of cloud services, such as IBM, Microsoft, on the technology side and Amazon and Google on the service side, are also trusted household names. Their products and ... read more..

InfrastructureAs more and more businesses of all types and sizes continue moving to the cloud for a wide range of IT solutions, the risks from a failure at any of the many cloud computing providers becomes even more important to business and IT professionals. In fact, a series of recent ... read more..

NCC's Quarterly Members Conference, 28 June 2011 The Trades Union Congress, London Download the presentations Cloud Strategy (4.2MB PDF) Steven Heeney, IBM Cloud Computing Strategist, IBM UK VDI - Technology roadmap (6.2MB PDF) ... read more..

Linking social, mobile, and cloud July 2011 Catalyst Driven by changing business needs and global economic factors, organizations are starting to do things differently. Speed, agility, mobility, reuse, and innovation are the transformative factors forcing organizations to push aside old technologies and communication models to make way ... read more..

Managing application development, from Agile and cloud to embedded systems and mobile apps June 2011 Catalyst Application lifecycle management (ALM) is a process and philosophy as well as a software solution to support the process. After a period of relative stability, several factors are beginning to reshape ... read more..

Where are you on the cloud journey? Book your place on the next NCC Members Conference 28th June 2011, at The Trades Union Congress, LondonNCCs Enabling the flexible enterprise: Cloud, Virtual Infrastructure, Security conference will provide a snapshot of the key issues in deployment of virtualisation technologies and the ... read more..

outsourcing trends Ravi Pandey, senior vice president of NIIT Technologies UK, looks at the trends and factors that will affect outsourcing in 2011. IT outsourcing is now a mature practice that has gained widespread adoption as organisations look to reduce costs and increase efficiencies. The drive to achieve these goals ... read more..