Matt's Blog

Matt is a data storage industry veteran who has seen action working for storage vendors, distributors, consultants and resellers. He has helped large and medium-size enterprises to specify and implement high end storage, tiered storage, HSM, ILM, backup and archive solutions. Matt holds vendor qualifications from Symantec/Veritas, EMC, HDS, Net App, Sun Microsystems, IBM and HP – so he practices the vendor-independence that he preaches and he plays a key role in helping customers to weigh up the pros and cons of different vendors’ offerings.

Are you doing enough to prevent data loss?
28 Apr 2009 | Comments [0]

As the volume of information that organisations have to process and store keeps snowballing with each passing year, how many companies can honestly claim that they’ve got a grip on the security of all of... More >

Where’s your IT bottleneck?
4 Feb 2009   |  Comments [0]

Servers and storage devices are achieving performance levels that we could only dream about a few years ago. Yet, with users demanding ever greater speeds and service levels, how you actually move data b... More >

The Credit Crunch – should we all be panicking?
10 Nov 2008   |  Comments [0]

With sections of the media full of doom and gloom, how should businesses view the prospects for the general economy and their own specific marketplace... and how should IT departments respond?   ... More >

Does your Data Centre need a MAID?
8 Jul 2008   |  Comments [2]

Up to 80% of all information stored in the average data centre can be classed as Persistent Data. Once stored, this data is accessed very infrequently and is rarely - if ever - changed. Yet, f... More >