Martin Banks

In-depth Pairing virtualised clients and servers is one way to help IT managers meet workers' personal demands.

In-depth Change, infrastructure terms, used to occur rarely, and usually constituted a major upheaval that was at best partially planned and full of pitfalls. Now it is an everyday, even hourly occurrence, which makes the issue of managing the change one of the most important tasks facing IT managements.

In-depth The Network is the Computer - it is an old saying made famous by Sun boss Scott McNealy. But there is now an argument that it has never been more true: so much so that it raises interesting new prospects for infrastructure architectures.

In-depth By the end of 2012, we will have single-socket, x86 devices with 128 cores. The only way to manage systems built with such devices is to exploit the parallel processing technologies developed for the rarefied world of High Performance Computing.