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Andrew McCreath
Andrew McCreath

Andrew McCreath is an Engagement Partner with Glasshouse Technologies (UK), a global provider of IT infrastructure services, with more than 16 years experience of Infrastructure and Management Information Systems. Prior to joining GlassHouse, Andrew managed multi-million dollar projects while employed with Accenture, Credit Suisse First Boston, Kimberly-Clark, Société Générale and EMC, and is currently specialised in server virtualisation and Data Centre consolidation

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What is Next in Virtualisation?

23 Nov 2009 News
What is Next in Virtualisation?
In this blog post, Tom Brand, virtualisation practice lead at GlassHouse Technologies (UK), discusses what is next in virtualisation now businesses have done their pilot tests......
Hardware

What is the Relationship Between Cloud and Virtualisation?

18 Oct 2009 News
What is the Relationship Between Cloud and Virtualisation?
With tightened budgets, businesses are constantly looking for way to see a rapid return on investment (ROI). This has increased interest in the adoption of pay-as-you-go cloud...
Hardware

Worldwide IT Spending Down Six Per Cent - What Does It Mean

06 Oct 2009 News
Worldwide IT Spending Down Six Per Cent - What Does It Mean
Gartner predicted as recently as July that worldwide IT spend in 2009 would be six per cent lower than in 2008.  This figure looks bad enough, but when broken down further...
Hardware

Selling Back To Your CEO / CIO. What Do They Want To Hear?

25 Sep 2009 News
Selling Back To Your CEO / CIO.  What Do They Want To Hear?
This featured article was written by Simon Shaw, strategy consultant, GlassHouse Technologies (UK) Ltd. There has long been a disconnect between on-the-ground IT staff and...
Hardware

New Technologies in Data Centers : Database Virtualisation and Active Active Databases

07 Sep 2009 News
New Technologies in Data Centers : Database Virtualisation and Active Active Databases
Bilal Mehdi, senior consultant at GlassHouse Technologies (UK) discusses the benefits of new database virtualisation and active/active databases. Today’s datacenter...
Hardware

Why Should You Be Concerned About Your RTOS And RPOS?

26 Aug 2009 News
Why Should You Be Concerned About Your RTOS And RPOS?
Disaster recovery (DR) is, by its very nature, difficult to plan for. But we’re all well aware of the problems associated with insufficient DR processes, policies and...