Network Attached Storage (NAS) is at the heart of most companies’ un-structured file storage. NAS file storage ranges from small one-box systems or Windows servers, to bigger […]

I’ve recently been doing quite a bit of work with VxRail recently – Dell EMC’s hyper-converged appliance – and I’m very happy to report that it […]

I note with great interest that EMC have just released VSPEX Blue. This is an implementation of the new(ish) VMWare EVO:Rail concept for a hyper-converged infrastructure. […]

As you may know from my previous blog posts, my first engagement with Reciprocal came as an end user. Reciprocal approached my previous company to discuss […]

Whether you prefer to call it Public Cloud, PaaS (Platform as a Service), or just a bunch of servers and disks hosted by someone else and […]

Many call recording systems are quite capable of setting a retention policy on specific recordings, often based upon a flag set by variables in the contact […]

For quite some time now I have been thinking about a universal and dynamically configurable ‘datacentre in a box’. I’ll bet you think I should have […]

The IT age is currently being software defined. Why is this? Well, largely because data is growing and our traditional means of storing it, disk drives, […]

If you’re expecting this blog post to be by way of adult entertainment then I’m sorry to disappoint, however I have been giving some thought recently […]

Sooner or later, any organisations that have existing EMC Centera archiving platforms will start to think “what exactly do I have on my EMC Centera and […]