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Software quality vs speed of delivery

Are you stuck between a rock and a hard place? Much has been written about the importance of software to the modern business. The watch-word is ‘digital’ and that translates…
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Application Platforms Matter

Cloud services are increasingly becoming part of the IT delivery mix, but a recent study of 378 senior IT professionals suggests a parallel commitment to ongoing investment in the datacentre.…
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IT Ops doesn’t matter? Really?

Listen to some DevOps evangelists talk, and you would get the impression that IT operations teams only exist to serve the needs of developers. Now don’t get me wrong, software…
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Managing Web and Mobile Security Risk

Securing the applications and services that underpin your online and mobile presence is one thing, but keeping them secure secure on an ongoing basis is another. How well do your…
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The trouble with business executives…

When IT teams and their colleagues within the business get along, life is good for everyone. A virtuous circle is created in which managers and executives recognise and appreciate the…
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The power management skills gap

A recent survey by Freeform Dynamics of 320 senior data centre professionals reveals that datacentre facilities-related outages, e.g. to do with power and cooling, happen more frequently than you might…
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A peek behind the AI bandwagon

When an important topic or trend gives rise to a marketing and media bandwagon, any previous semblance of clarity tends to evaporate. It becomes hard to distinguish between spin, sensationalism…
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Digital Disrupters do it to Themselves

The word ’digital’ seems to have overtaken ’cloud’ as the hottest word in the IT industry. I have no quantitative evidence for this, but if vendor PowerPoints are anything to…
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Timeless principles of selling

When I first moved into software sales about 25 years ago, my then boss gave me a book to read called How I raised myself from failure to success in…
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Enterprise Git in Perspective

In a nutshell If asked to name a distributed version control system (DVCS), most people in the software development world would probably think of Git. Indeed, some would spontaneously rave…
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Experience with the iPad Pro

The rumour mill says that that Apple will soon launch a smaller (9.7 inch) version of the iPad Pro, complete with support for the Apple Pencil. This could be interesting…
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APIs and the Digital Enterprise

Application programming interfaces (APIs) have been around for decades. In the early days of IT they were primarily used to give programmers convenient access to libraries of prebuilt functions. As…
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