Author Archives: Dale Vile

Controlling Application Access

Application performance, availability and security challenges are quietly creeping up in the context of internal[...]

Predictions for 2014

My views on market developments in 2014 are not sensational, I’m afraid. I offer them[...]

Will the CMO inherit the Earth?

By Dale Vile Two narratives concerning the CIO/CMO relationship are doing the rounds at the[...]

Building a future proof service portfolio

By Dale Vile We constantly hear that cloud is the future and that distributors, resellers,[...]

Voice recognition in healthcare

By Dale Vile I first discovered dictation software back in 2001 when I ended up[...]

Customer Data Quality in Context

Are you a business manager/executive? Read on to find out why sometimes you may have[...]

Managing Customer Data Quality

IT Leaders and Architects, when was the last time you could look at one of[...]

Cloud – Is it an opportunity to increase your SMB Business?

SMBs are increasingly using cloud services, and want their local resellers and service providers to[...]

The SaaS opportunity for SMBs

By Dale Vile Software as a Service (SaaS) is potentially a great fit for small[...]

Office 365 in context

By Dale Vile In the beginning there was Microsoft Office. Well, it sometimes seems that[...]

Unravelling the SMB SaaS opportunity for resellers

By Dale Vile SMBs and cloud computing are a match made in heaven. That’s the[...]

SMBs are tumbling into the cloud? Oh get real

By Dale Vile This article was originally published for the channel. SMBs are now turning[...]

The End User Security Jigsaw

Organisations of all sizes are trying to understand the security implications of mobile working, device[...]

Why I chose the MacBook Air over the Surface Pro

By Dale Vile Writing about two totally different machines in the same blog post might[...]

The Data Protection Imperative

In this short paper, we spell out why the time has come to adopt a[...]

All about OpenStack

Proprietary cloud threatens lock-in, higher cost and application silos. There is an alternative: OpenStack is[...]

Virtualisation where are my savings?

Three years ago you listened to vendors telling you how much we would all save[...]

Storage Anywhere and Everywhere

With more departmental applications, collaboration and sharing environments, and even cloud-based services, with access via[...]

Think your IT department’s parochial? Try selling to SMEs

By Dale Vile This article was originally published for the channel. It’s been a few[...]

BYOD beyond the noise

A lot has been said about the strategic advantages (and problems) of BYOD, but much[...]