The value of understanding your Microsoft cloud licences – Part One

I have recently been working on several projects looking at Microsoft cloud licencing which brought home to me the importance of fully understanding the licences you need; you have and how you are using them. I thought I'd take this opportunity to share some of those findings in two blog posts. In part two we'll … Continue reading The value of understanding your Microsoft cloud licences – Part One →

Veeam and its future place in the market

Full disclosure - I attended VeeamOn as a guest of Veeam. Writer William S. Burroughs is credited with the quote, "When you stop growing you start dying." which has been altered to fit all kinds of walks of life including IT. It was this idea of "evolve or die" that took me to this year's … Continue reading Veeam and its future place in the market →

The case for better data management (The rime of the data manager)

"Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink" Samuel Coleridge wrote in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. If we fast forward 200 years, he may have written something similar about one of the ancient mariner's descendants, the hard-put-upon data manager! "Data, data everywhere, but it's hard to find the stuff that is of … Continue reading The case for better data management (The rime of the data manager) →