Stephen Pritchard

In the second of a two-part series, we look at the current tariff turmoil and how private sector customers have at least some flexibility in how to absorb their impacts.

We look at the current tariff turmoil in public sector IT procurement, the particular challenges faced by public sector procurement, and how the cloud and pay-as-you-go can help

AI and compliance: Staying on the right side of law and regulation

We look at the areas of risk in artificial intelligence. Potential exposures abound, and include security and privacy issues, bias, accuracy and complete fabrication of results.

Artificial intelligence operations can place different demands on storage during training, inference etc. We look at NAS, SAN and object storage for AI and how to balance them for AI projects.

Small language models should be more cost effective to deploy than LLMs, offering greater privacy, and performing specific or tightly-defined tasks. But is it early days for SLMs?

We look at cloud vs on-premises for AI workloads, why cloud is sometimes best, and the technologies speeding AI in the cloud, such as parallelism and GPUDirect

Licencing changes mean VMware vSAN customers are considering whether to move to an alternative to vSAN for VMware storage or away from VMware altogether. We look at the options

We look at VMware vSAN Max storage: its best use cases, how to deploy it and on what hardware, the alternatives, and considerations in light of VMware’s Broadcom takeover.

VMware’s pricing changes have spurred some organisations to move to new virtualisation environments, but they’ll need backing up. We look at the key points to consider.

Much of artificial intelligence’s rapid growth has come from cloud-based tools. But there are very good reasons to host AI workloads on-premise.

We look at storage supplier offerings available in the big three public clouds, their pros and cons, and key use cases.

Biotech firm BioCorteX uses what may be the world’s largest biological knowledge graph to understand how bacteria impact the effectiveness of cancer drugs.

We survey the key cloud storage offers available from Google Cloud Platform (GCP), which include Cloud Storage, Persistent Disk and Filestore, with a range of service levels and app-specific options.

We look at AI-powered tools to manage storage and data protection that can help detect infrastructure issues, and help optimise performance and even cloud costs

We survey the key cloud storage options available from AWS, which include S3 object storage and its options, block storage in EBS and a range of file storage choices

Poor identity and access management puts enterprise data at risk, but the path to stronger IAM remains complex.

Anomaly detection and immutable copies can be frontline tools against ransomware – we look at the role storage can play against the latest techniques employed by ransomware gangs.

Google Cloud’s London summit underpinned a focus on artificial intelligence with some significant infrastructure updates.

We survey the key cloud storage options available from Microsoft Azure, which include Files, Blob, Elastic SAN, Managed Disk and NetApp files, for a range of use cases.