Various security tools and features have been made available to cloud end users over the past few years. They are designed to allow the application of security best practices on a cloud infrastructure, similar to how it is with an...

The HPC industry saw continued consolidation throughout 2019 and the gene pool of HPC companies continues to steadily shrink, with the trend likely to carry on in 2020.  What this will mean for the industry will depend on which side...

I recently joined Red Oak Consulting with a background in Enterprise IT. In the world of Enterprise IT, the arguments about whether or not to move to the cloud are all but over and organisations building new Enterprise IT solutions...

Collectively at Red Oak Consulting we have been working on TCO models for clients for decades. As a result of our work and experience within TCO modelling we have created a highly evolved model for TCO analysis, which drills down...

When we’re approached by a customer to perform or support a cloud proof of concept, regardless of its conceptual state, we have a number of key steps and initial questions in mind. The most obvious is to state the exact...

As the calendar rolls around to late June we see the ISC conference, held in Frankfurt (June 24th-28th), heave into view. With some of the pre-show announcements already starting to roll out, what do we think some of the main...

The business of buying, selling and managing high-performance computing resources is for the most part an amicable one. Aside from the periodic low-grade spat between Mellanox and Intel over the benchmarking of their respective interconnects, we see little evidence of...

The last couple of years have seen cloud computing gradually build some legitimacy within the HPC world, but still the industry lies far behind enterprise IT in its willingness to outsource computational power. The most often touted reason for this...

The last couple of years have seen cloud computing gradually build some legitimacy within the HPC world, but still the industry lies far behind enterprise IT in its willingness to outsource computational power. The most often touted reason for this...

The last couple of years have seen cloud computing gradually build some legitimacy within the HPC world, but still the industry lies far behind enterprise IT in its willingness to outsource computational power. The most often touted reason for this...