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Cloud is a topic that’s exercising the IT industry, and is re-shaping business’s IT strategies. There is also another side to cloud-computing; tactical opportunities to solve real-world problems quickly. This paper looks at three such services offered and used by … Continue reading
Introduction – why VDI needs a different approach We’ve said it before in our VDI Checklist: ‘Server consolidation and virtualisation, if done well, was pretty much invisible to people using your systems: hopefully they perform better and are more reliable, … Continue reading
Introduction The benefits of server consolidation have been well documented over the last ten years. From the uncontroversial argument that fewer servers save on hardware, power and datacentre costs to the more esoteric and harder to quantify argument for operational … Continue reading
Over the past few years there has been a growing trend towards a more centralised computing model. Data centres have grown in size and larger organizations have started to share resources. This has been particularly true in the public sector … Continue reading
Introduction. Eighteen months ago our original White Paper, ‘Avoiding Mistakes in email Archiving’, argued that email archiving was a business rather than a technical issue and as such the whole board, rather than the CIO in isolation should make decisions … Continue reading
With budget cuts starting to bite, public sector organisations should be embracing technologies that deliver real ROI within the financial year. Virtualising the desktop is one such strategy. VDI projects not only save costs in year, they improve service delivery, … Continue reading
Merry Christmas; now plan for 2011! Christmas is a great time to reflect on the year past and to start planning for 2011. Particularly as many of us are snow-bound and working from home. CWL excel at keeping operations … Continue reading
Separating applications from operating systems (application virtualisation) can help organisations reduce desktop failures, improve user productivity and reduce software costs. We at CWL believe the argument for virtualisation is so great that we wonder why more organisations have yet to … Continue reading
Implementing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) can create significant management efficiencies and cost savings. So it is no surprise that many organisations are either in the process of migrating to virtual desktops or are actively considering the option. Selecting the … Continue reading
Summary: Here at CWL we’ve recently seen a flurry of activity in our customers around file and email archiving. We have several projects under-way at time of writing, and I thought it could be useful to look at the different … Continue reading
