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Cloud choices: How do you decide, when there’s so much on offer?
by Tommy Kolega, CIO, Viadex: Global IT Infrastructure and Deployment Specialists How risky is it to reduce risks? Cloud has been around, some would say, since 1996. It’s no longer a novelty. It is, however, the platform for all things new: services, processes, development, applications, interactions, and great ways of reducing risk and costs. It…
Read MoreDoing the right thing: The ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
by Tommy Kolega, CIO, Viadex: Global IT Infrastructure and Deployment Specialists Are we all doomed? All new technologies have their supporters and detractors. It’s in man’s nature to question the cost of progress while, or sometime even before, assessing its value. It’s a case of guilty until proved innocent. Civilised society can be justly proud…
Read MoreCeph – an Overview
With the rapid market adoption of SDS (Software Defined Storage) it is only fair to discuss the much talked about open source SDS Ceph, what it is and how it could be used to provide an SDS solution today. What is Ceph (can be pronounced sef or kef)? Ceph is an Open Source Distributed storage…
Read MoreTravel to new territories: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
by Tommy Kolega, CIO, Viadex: Global IT Infrastructure and Deployment Specialists The term ‘artificial intelligence’ was first coined by John McCarthy in 1955/6. This was visionary thinking at its most far-sighted: “Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to…
Read MoreServerless is More: Serverless computing means no more sweating the small stuff
by Tommy Kolega, CIO, Viadex: Global IT Infrastructure and Deployment Specialists Pic’n’Mix computing Serverless computing is becoming the development platform of choice with start-ups, and Innovation and R&D teams within established organisations because it reduces reliance on traditional IT support. It also makes developers less dependent on hardware suppliers. Leveraging a cloud provider’s Serverless…
Read MoreMaking Plan B as good as Plan A: Backup and Disaster Recovery
Tommy Kolega, CIO, Viadex: Global IT Infrastructure and Deployment Specialists There’s no compromise in robust contingency plans Backing up systems, applications and data is good practice. We all hold this truth to be self-evident. The problem is, not all backup and disaster recovery solutions are created equal. Some are more reliable than others, some are…
Read MoreDo you speak technology? 5 top tech phrases to know in 2018
by Tommy Kolega, CIO, Viadex: Global IT Infrastructure and Deployment Specialists The ship is ready to sail We’ve settled in and unpacked our bags. The delights of 2018 beckon all around us. TTE 2018 was a great scene-setter, with much buzz around the major areas of travel and hotel technology, plus marketing technologies for both…
Read MoreCall that a wireless network? Cloud controlled Wi-Fi changes everything
by Tommy Kolega, CIO, Viadex: Global IT Infrastructure and Deployment Specialists Every man, and woman, is an island In an age when the network must be all things to all men, and women, the complexity that comes along with making it just so can be overwhelming. The expectations of the business become more demanding every…
Read MoreDATA ANALYTICS: the passport to competitive differentiation – Maximum storage performance is the minimum requirement
The technology that data has been waiting for Consumers are becoming more discerning, demanding, and digitally-savvy in how they choose not just their holidays, but also the providers they opt to purchase holidays and related products from. Providers need to be equally discerning and demanding in their technology choices; making the right moves from an…
Read MoreNVMe over Fabrics: the storage revolution
5x more performance than current day lightning fast SSD First there was fast, then came faster. Mellanox states: “The performance of storage technologies has increased 100 times in the last five years as Flash-based Solid State Disks (SSDs), and especially SSDs connected over NVMe, have come to market.” Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) provides 25x faster…
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