FinOps and Cloud Cost Management Tools: A Buying Guide
The cloud bill arrives, but nobody can say with confidence which product, team or customer generated a third of the cost. Forecasts drift, spending exceeds expectations and finance asks questions that engineering cannot answer from the console. FinOps and the cloud cost management tools that support it help close that gap. This guide explains what […]
Cloud Infrastructure: What IT teams should compare
Moving infrastructure to the cloud is no longer an unusual technology decision. The more difficult question is what the resulting environment should actually look like. An organisation might use public cloud infrastructure for new applications while retaining legacy workloads elsewhere. It might favour managed platform services over virtual machines, operate across more than one cloud […]
October 2026 is Cloud Infrastructure Month on IT Briefing – Make sure your solutions are part of it!
Each month on IT Briefing we’re shining the spotlight on a different part of the IT and cyber security markets – and in October we’re focussing on Cloud Infrastructure solutions. It’s all part of our ‘Recommended’ editorial feature, designed to help IT and security buyers find the best products and services available today. So, if you’re […]
Power is changing how organisations make infrastructure decisions
Until fairly recently, infrastructure plans followed a familiar pattern: add processing capacity, increase storage and make the network faster. Investment kept pace as businesses generated more data and came to rely on a broader range of applications and digital services. Now, another factor is shaping those decisions: power. Those demands have not eased. Data heavy […]
Managing cloud infrastructure effectively with Redcentric Cloud
Cloud adoption is no longer the challenge. Managing it effectively is. Organisations now operate across a mix of public cloud, private infrastructure and sovereign environments. As cloud estates grow, governance becomes harder to maintain and operational complexity increases. What was meant to improve agility can quickly become difficult to control without the right structure behind it. The issue is no longer cloud itself, […]
IT solutions from ground to cloud
NG Bailey IT Services sits at the heart of the NG Bailey Group, combining specialist digital expertise with the strength and scale of a fully integrated power and engineering organisation. While we are trusted for delivering secure, resilient and future‑ready digital infrastructure, our clients also benefit from the Group’s extended capability to deliver complex power connections, major […]
The Importance of Legacy System Modernisation for IT Systems
Legacy systems remain essential to global business operations. They run core processes, hold important data and are relied on by teams across the world every single day. Yet as organisations globally accelerate digital transformation plans, the future of these core systems is being questioned. With the skills required to maintain and enhance these systems disappearing […]
New research from Vanson Bourne highlights cloud security concerns among IT professionals
Nearly all organizations are relying on the cloud to store sensitive data and run critical systems. But for many, cloud security hasn’t kept up. New research from Vanson Bourne surveyed 1,600 IT and security decision makers across eight countries to discover that more than 60 percent believe their organization’s cloud security poses a significant risk. […]
77% of IT managers: Physical security is not optimised
There are calls for greater collaboration between the physical security and IT communities to meet urgent security and intelligence challenges, after a study of 1,000 IT decision makers across Europe revealed that physical security systems are not optimised according to 77% of respondents, and 20% have identified physical security as a priority for improvement in 2020. While nearly half of IT managers surveyed […]
Four Steps to Security Automation Success
By Ofer Elzam, VP and GM, FireMon Cloud & Automation Solutions Security automation projects are making headlines, with everyone looking to automate at least some portion of the policy management process. Usually, the goal is to save time and money by automating firewall administration and policy management. However, these two categories have grown exponentially in […]