Dale Vile

Freedom without Anarchy

Empowering employees through the delegation of authority and trust can enhance innovation and productivity. But beyond the hot topic of BYOD, what are the real key enablers of employee empowerment…
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Next Generation Data Management and Analytics

By Dale Vile It’s easy to understand the increasing positive buzz around advances in information management and analytics. Hitherto leading-edge solutions becoming ‘mainstream ready’ now potentially allow any organisation to…
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A Vision for the Data Centre

The death of on-premise IT as a result of hosted cloud services is greatly exaggerated. The enterprise data centre will therefore remain the pivot point for IT delivery for the…
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Martini induced client-server redux

By Dale Vile If you see the phrase ‘anytime, anyplace, anywhere’ in relation to mobile access, and are tempted to point out the language redundancy (“surely ‘anyplace’ and ‘anywhere’ mean…
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Are you a filer or a piler?

By Dale Vile How many email messages do you receive in the average working day – 20, 30, 50, more? And what volume of email have you accumulated over the…
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Future-proofing the data centre

Dale Vile meets with Hewlett-Packard’s David Chalmers They discussed how recent innovations in server, storage and networking technology can be integrated, how to make those difficult decisions, and what the…
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Cross-Selling to the Cloud

By Dale Vile The notion of cloud computing taking more of the action in the market raises a number of concerns for resellers, system integrators and others in the IT…
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Windows 8 and the ‘Dad test’ stunts

While out and about shopping yesterday, I spotted a PC magazine in the newsagent advertising the ‘ultimate guide’ to Windows 8 in the form of a ’33 page special’. Apart…
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Effective B2B Integration

The way in which organisations communicate and transact across supply and demand chains has a big impact on business performance, but what are the keys to success when it comes…
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Agility without anxiety

Dale Vile met up with Perforce’s Mark Warren to discuss how to do agile development properly: why it is needed, the right way to go about agile development, and how…
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Getting private cloud to play nicely

By Dale Vile We were surprised at the strength of positive sentiment and relative lack of ‘boo-sucks’ type feedback from the 570 readers who participated in our recent Reg reader…
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Playing the SLA long game

By Dale Vile When IT is your day job it’s easy to lose sight of why you are actually there. Alright, from your perspective it’s probably to pay the bills,…
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Desktop Virtualization

Desktop virtualization has progressed from a niche way of handling exceptional user requirements to a mainstream IT delivery approach. Technology has matured to provide options ranging from terminal services through…
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Private Cloud in Context

To make sense of private cloud, you need unravel it from the broader cloud computing discussion. Those that have done this say that private and public cloud have little to…
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Energy Aware Planning and Decision Making

Energy availability and management is increasingly becoming an important agenda item for IT leaders, but what can be done from a practical perspective to keep costs and risks under control?
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The great DR divide

Business continuity solutions only for large organisations? IT vendors and consulting firms who sell disaster recovery (DR) or business continuity solutions are all over large enterprises. If you are a…
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