Author Archives: Dale Vile
’Big Data changes EVERYTHING’ vs ’Hadoop? For my 200-customer biz?’
By Dale Vile As an industry analyst, it sometimes feels like I am flitting between[...]
Don’t forget the desktop
By Dale Vile Ask anyone in the industry about the future of end user computing[...]
Office Software Checkpoint
By Dale Vile The desktop productivity space has been dominated for many years by Microsoft[...]
Office 365 in Context
Users today are working in a highly connected manner, often across a range of different[...]
Workload placement in a hybrid world
Research shows that you are going to mix your platforms and deployment models in the[...]
Do SMBs have less of a mobile and collaboration need?
By Dale Vile Yahoo!’s decision last month to axe home working prompted a lot of[...]
Cloud is more about choice than hosting
By Dale Vile There’s a trick we use at Freeform Dynamics when trying to figure[...]
User driven IT adoption – Problem or opportunity?
By Dale Vile The latest catchy but dubious term to emanate from the vendor and[...]
To PaaS or not to PaaS – that is the question
By Dale Vile Most forms of cloud computing are starting to find their place in[...]
Solutions for driving better B2B integration
By Dale Vile In a previous article we highlighted the fact that many organisations could[...]
Is Big Data killing the RDBMS?
Time for a reality check
Creating the Next Generation Data Centre
Practical steps to efficiency and flexibility
Freedom without Anarchy
Empowering employees through the delegation of authority and trust can enhance innovation and productivity. But[...]
Next Generation Data Management and Analytics
By Dale Vile It’s easy to understand the increasing positive buzz around advances in information[...]
The next decade of data centre evolution
By Dale Vile To some, the mere concept of enterprise datacentres still being around in[...]
A Vision for the Data Centre
The death of on-premise IT as a result of hosted cloud services is greatly exaggerated.[...]
Martini induced client-server redux
By Dale Vile If you see the phrase ‘anytime, anyplace, anywhere’ in relation to mobile[...]
Are you a filer or a piler?
By Dale Vile How many email messages do you receive in the average working day[...]
Electronic trading dogged by information issues
By Dale Vile How many suppliers and customers do you trade with in the average[...]
Future-proofing the data centre
Dale Vile meets with Hewlett-Packard’s David Chalmers They discussed how recent innovations in server, storage[...]
Cross-Selling to the Cloud
By Dale Vile The notion of cloud computing taking more of the action in the[...]
Good news for Relational DBAs – Looks like there will still be demand for your services
Those advocating emerging technologies and ideas often talk as if IT is a zero sum[...]