Strange clouds?

Knowing where and how to best invest in upgrading a company’s IT infrastructure can be a daunting task, particularly for the small-to- medium-sized enterprise (SME)

Marc O’Regan, chief technology officer, EMC Ireland

With so much media coverage dedicated to extolling the virtues of the cloud, making a move in that direction seems like an obvious choice.

But according to Marc O’Regan, chief technology officer with EMC Ireland, when it comes to deciding which aspects of the IT function to move, it’s more important for companies to think about what they need applications to do rather than how they do it.

“The problem with SMEs as ...