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…
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…
By Dale Vile To some, the mere concept of enterprise datacentres still being around in ten years’ time is anathema. By then, it is asserted, all enterprise IT should be…
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…
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…
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…
By Dale Vile How many suppliers and customers do you trade with in the average month? If your organisation is one of those that analysts affectionately refer to as a…
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…
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…
Those advocating emerging technologies and ideas often talk as if IT is a zero sum game. When something new comes along, the assumption is that something old needs to move…
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…
Windows 8 has been criticised quite a bit in the press for some of the decisions Microsoft has made around user interface. As more and more criticism has surfaced, a…
I have long been a sceptic of the ‘install it and they will figure out how to use it’ approach to social collaboration. While you hear the odd success story…
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…
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…
You don’t have to move in specialist digital marketing circles to have come across the notion of ‘social media analytics’. Anyone on the receiving end of a ‘big data’ presentation…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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?
We at Freeform Dynamics have been running surveys and interactive workshops with The Register’s readership since 2006 on a wide variety of topics. Looking back, we see the same themes…
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…
