Dale Vile

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[...]

Agility without anxiety

Dale Vile met up with Perforce’s Mark Warren to discuss how to do agile development[...]

How representative is social media data for marketing analytics?

You don’t have to move in specialist digital marketing circles to have come across the[...]

Getting private cloud to play nicely

By Dale Vile We were surprised at the strength of positive sentiment and relative lack[...]

Playing the SLA long game

By Dale Vile When IT is your day job it’s easy to lose sight of[...]

Desktop Virtualization

Desktop virtualization has progressed from a niche way of handling exceptional user requirements to a[...]

Private Cloud in Context

To make sense of private cloud, you need unravel it from the broader cloud computing[...]

Energy Aware Planning and Decision Making

Energy availability and management is increasingly becoming an important agenda item for IT leaders, but[...]

Six common impediments to effective IT change management

We at Freeform Dynamics have been running surveys and interactive workshops with The Register’s readership[...]

The great DR divide

Business continuity solutions only for large organisations? IT vendors and consulting firms who sell disaster[...]

Banging your head against the invisible wall

Has virtualisation really moved the game forward? OK, so you’ve virtualised a bunch of servers[...]

Keeping Score in the Public Sector

With a mandate to make public records broadly available online, yet at the same time[...]

The Business of Electronic Data Storage

By Dale Vile, Tony Lock and Martha Bennett Introduction Storage and retrieval of electronic data[...]

Operating Models in Context

By Dale Vile Change is a fact of life in business, but it’s generally not[...]

Moving Information Management Forwards

By Tony Lock & Dale Vile Locating and accessing information required to run the business[...]

Data retention, FOI and the storage budget

The data retention policy in too many organisations has historically boiled down to ‘keep everything[...]

Enabling Rapid and Effective IT Recovery

IT vendors have traditionally targeted the lucrative large enterprise market with their data protection and[...]

Challenging the big change agenda

Marketing people and management consultants love the words ‘transformation’ and ‘innovation’. As you listen to[...]

A View from Above the Clouds

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – IAP Symposium, 14th October 2011 Presenter(s) –[...]

The Consumerisation of IT (Slides)

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – VMUG Meeting, Leeds, October 2011 Presenter(s) –[...]