
IT For CEOs & CFOs
Recent Sample Papers Archive 01
The "Robin Hood" approach to cyber-resilient enterprise storage
In an era where data has become the lifeblood of modern enterprises, the way organizations manage, protect, and optimize their storage infrastructure is undergoing a profound transformation.
Anchoring your cybersecrity backup
Daily data backups are standard for modern enterprises, but a critical dilemma has emerged.
Balancing CAPEX and OPEX costs in enterprise storage
In a digital-first economy, data growth is rarely linear. Enterprises are increasingly tasked with updating storage infrastructure to manage growing data volumes while facing intense scrutiny over IT expenditures.
Six essential Cyber Stack ingredients
The traditional ways of thinking about the channel are cracking and collapsing, but the sky is not falling.
Channel trends - don't miss the new opportunities
The traditional ways of thinking about the channel are cracking and collapsing, but the sky is not falling.
Tech trends for 2026
Building resilience into every layer of IT infrastructure is a trend that will be prevalent in 2026. It will be the culmination of years of realizations about the gaps within enterprise data infrastructure that leaves enterprises vulnerable to cyberattacks.
Evolution through innovation as ACS celebrates a quarter century of excellence
In the fast-paced, ever-evolving landscape of financial services and debt recovery, longevity is a testament to integrity, adaptability, and results.
Opportunity benefits of enterprise storage
Most enterprises don’t automatically increase their IT budgets year-on-year – the C-Suite often just expects teams to ‘do more with less’ to find ways to improve performance and productivity, but without going on a spending spree.
The ultimate 2025 checklist for enterprise storage
A well-defined checklist breaks down the daunting process into manageable phases (planning, preparation, execution, post-migration) with clear tasks, assigned roles, and timelines.
Effective budgeting strateges for IT companies in uncertain times
In an era marked by economic fluctuations, rapid technological advancements, and shifting market demands, IT companies face unique challenges when it comes to budgeting.
Delivering environmental and economic advantages in green IT
Data centres worldwide continue to encounter substantial challenges involving power consumption, cooling requirements, and limitations in rack space.
Cybersecurity awareness month 2025
Organizations are now encountering more than 1,650 cyberattacks per week, as perpetrators leverage artificial intelligence and advanced extortion strategies, including double and triple forms of extortion.
Why do the warning signs of business failure get missed in the IT sector?
All company failures are preceded by red flag indicators: some financial, others operational and strategic.
Finding common ground with the CFO on enterprise storage
This article discusses a situation that arises when a chief financial officer (CFO) expresses concerns about an IT department’s proposal to acquire a new storage system for infrastructure upgrade.
Lack of innovation threatens economic growth
The UK is falling in global rankings for innovation, technology, and competitiveness due to persistently low business investment.
Mission Impossible of storage
In today’s data-driven world, those overseeing enterprise storage and the security of data infrastructure face unprecedented challenges – and unprecedented opportunities.
How to implement recovery-first ransomware detection
The increasing scale, sophistication, and frequency of ransomware attacks necessitate that organizations acknowledge the vulnerability of all systems and datasets.
Fintech runs on data
Fintechs’ sights are firmly set on the future and with that they are setting out clear technology priorities to adapt to the changing landscape.
Forensic analysis and reporting a cyberattack
As the increasing risk and accelerating pace of cyberattacks continue, the author of this article explores how deep content analytics enables unrivalled forensic analysis and reporting of cyberattacks.
Protect your enterprise's data with next generation cyber back-up
In an era where cyberattacks are both inevitable and highly costly, it is imperative for enterprises to integrate cyber resilience into their secondary storage systems to safeguard backup data.
Reduce downtime risk - adopt ransomware detection
The rate of cyberattacks is increasing each week, and it is forecast that cybercrime will cost enterprises $10.5 trillion in 20251.
The strategic role of Channel Partners
A significant transformation is underway in many manufacturing enterprises, triggered by greater interaction between Operational Technology (OT) and IT systems
Are you Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) ready?
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a technique that enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge from a retrieval system.
World Back Up Day 2025: Protect your enterprises data with next generation Cyber Secure Backup
Next-gen data protection goes beyond traditional backup, restore and disaster recovery. Putting your enterprise’s data in an air-tight cyber repository is not the same as the conventional means of moving data to an online repository as a backup file. Traditional backup environments are high-value targets for cyber attacks.
Why green IT is so important and how storage helps?
Minimizing energy consumption, lowering carbon emissions, and promoting sustainable disposal of technology products means that Green IT is an essential component of an enterprise IT strategy, because it prioritizes practices and technologies that target reducing the environmental impact of IT operations, whilst also saving on operational expenses.
Revisiting Herzog's Dirty Dozen: The progress report
Back in 2022, the author introduced “Herzog’s Dirty Dozen” to shine a light on the challenges that enterprises face in their data infrastructure.
Strengthening financial resilience - What CFOs can take from DOGE's alleged findings
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) recently claimed that nearly $4.7 trillion in federal payments are ‘almost impossible’ to trace due to tracking code issues.
Why every modern enterprise needs a storage champion
Today’s enterprises have the opportunity to advance the data infrastructure and be seen as a forward-thinking IT leader driving positive change.
Super savings an sustainability of Green IT
Not only does Green IT help the environment, but it also helps the bottom line with dramatic CAPEX and OPEX savings.
Channel trends in 2025 - staying a step ahead as a partner
The success equation requires that channel partners recognize, understand, and adapt to the trends affecting the channel for the next 12 months.
Invest in technology and break through the growth barrier
Recent research by Equals Money reveals that 90% of financial leaders were impacted by the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget, with over two-thirds (70%) choosing to delay or cancel planned investments.
Top storage trends for 2025
There is new excitement about enterprise storage. Based on extensive customer, channel partner, and technical alliance partner input on a global basis, several trends are emerging.
Making AI models more effective with augmented generation
Generative AI learning (GenAI) models are powerful, modern tools for automating interactive delivery of knowledge and information, but they often struggle to understand proprietary enterprise data. This leads large language models (LLMs) being prone to so-called “hallucinations” – fabricating answers instead of acknowledging that they don’t know the answer.
When white glove support becomes a game changer for enterprise storage
Customer experience continues to reign supreme as a key competitive differentiator. But for many organizations, the ability to delight customers by mastering the concept and execution of an exceptionally good customer experience can be challenging.
NextGen data protection and recovery
In the early days of enterprise storage, how to back up 1TB of data over 200 systems with a 10Mb/s network presented as a huge challenge.
Building thriving international growth plans
Expanding a business internationally is one of the most promising paths to growth, allowing companies to access new markets, diversify their customer base, and seize fresh opportunities. However, as any seasoned leader can attest, this journey is not without its challenges.
Financial institutions' rising interest in solving new cyber threats, data centre space constraints and the cloud paradox
The recent Strategic Technology Analysis Centre (STAC) Summit in New York City was the perfect venue to be teeming with discussions about how to solve the infrastructure-related problems facing the financial community.
NIST CSF 2.0 update and cybersecurity awareness month
The global cybersecurity threat is ever constant, and its impact on enterprises can be devastating.
How sustainable storage solutions drive business growth
Globally, data centres are consuming an estimated 240-340 TWh of electricity annually or around 1 to 1.3% of global final electricity demand, based on studies conducted in 2022.
Forensic accountants and IPs
The Post Office scandal has finally shone a light on the positives that forensic investigators can bring to troubled situations. The valiant forensic experts from Second Sight doggedly exposed the failings of the Horizon system despite all efforts to silence them and have now finally had their say at the Public Inquiry.
Why building cultural chasms is key to securing operational technology
Operational technology (OT) security is designed to meet the unique security needs of OT environments. This includes protecting system availability, understanding OT-specific protocols, and blocking attacks targeting the legacy systems commonly used in OT environments. As such, OT is becoming increasingly important. In this article, the author discusses how security practitioners bridge the cultural chasm with OT engineers where cyber security is often seen as just one risk among
several.
It's time to overhaul enterprise cybersecurity alerting systems
Enterprises need to make sure they are fully securing their data, both at rest and in motion.With datastores moving between on-premises enterprise data centre and the public cloud in hybrid environments, storage administrators need to be ever vigilant for a cybersecurity event and 'firing on all cylinders' if they are to have a chance of protecting their enterprise data.
When businesses win medals
Winning or even being nominated for a business award not only boosts awareness of a company’s brand, products and services helping to gain new customers, but it also boosts staff morale and helps to attract and retain staff – people want to work for award winning businesses. But winning awards isn’t easy – it takes hard work.
Delivering true enterprise value
Today’s customers want their enterprise systems to be faster, more performant, and capable systems that use less power and less data centre space, fuelling better OPEX, a smaller carbon footprint, and more successful outcomes for the business.
Fortifying frontline defences
We live in a data-driven world and protecting data assets is a constant challenge for all enterprise organizations.
CrowdStrike outage
The CrowdStrike outage has caused huge public service and commercial disruption worldwide.
Expanding channel partners growth with G4 storage solutions
Many IT companies continue to invest heavily in providing support with their channel partners.
Shrinking the cyberattack threat window
If enterprises are investing millions of pounds into their cyber protection armour and disaster recovery strategy, why are hackers still managing to profit from data disasters?
Enterprise storage - the proverbial "Water Cooler" discussions (part two)
In Part Two, the author delves into three more key topics which are being talked about across the industry – AI operations (AIOps); rising energy costs and space constraints; and comparing the use of a single storage operating system versus multiple operating systems and invites readers to share their reaction and insights about these topics on Infinidat’s social media channels using the hashtag #InfinidatTalk.
Uncertain times call for top quality leadership
There are innumerable theories about what good business leadership looks like. In good times, the momentum of strong revenues, solid profit margins, positive cash generation and thoughtful investment strategies for the future can hide a multitude of management flaws.
Enterprise storage - the proverbial "Water Cooler" discussions (part one)
Applications and workloads all require storage, but with each requiring differing storage needs it fast becomes apparent that all enterprise storage is not all created equally. There’s high-end enterprise storage, mid-range storage, and entry-level storage, block, file, object, and hybrid cloud storage – they all behave and function differently as far as availability, cybersecurity, integration, performance, and connectivity to other software – namely, infrastructure software.
Delivering Superior Customer Excellence with white glove support
In an era where customer service is king, enterprises and service providers/hosting providers expect a higher level of pro-active customer experience, both in terms of service and support, and technical user experience. IT buyers want “easier, faster and better”.
Cybercrime and the art of possible
Malicious actors with highly sophisticated hacking tools take data hostage and demand enormous
ransoms.
Green IT and ESG
Research by the Enterprise Strategy Group into the relevance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs in IT purchase decisions found that 93% of IT decision makers expect their suppliers’ ESG programs to have a major impact on their organization’s purchases.
Cybersecurity reporting and regulations in the EU and USA
Government bodies are now placing tighter compliance and cybersecurity requirements on business.
Storage must form the core of an enterprise cybersecurity strategy
Cyber security experts have estimated that global cybercrime costs will exceed 7.5 trillion Euros this year .