Author Archives: Dale Vile
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[...]
Agility without anxiety
Dale Vile met up with Perforce’s Mark Warren to discuss how to do agile development[...]
Hosting propositions for the mid-market
The utility based approach to hosted solutions taken by the likes of Microsoft, Google, Amazon[...]
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[...]