Author Archives: Dale Vile
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[...]
Windows 8 and the ‘Dad test’ stunts
While out and about shopping yesterday, I spotted a PC magazine in the newsagent advertising[...]
Windows 8 Perspectives – The power user and the teenager
Windows 8 has been criticised quite a bit in the press for some of the[...]
Social collaboration: From a faith-based to business-led approach
I have long been a sceptic of the ‘install it and they will figure out[...]
Effective B2B Integration
The way in which organisations communicate and transact across supply and demand chains has a[...]