Author Archives: Dale Vile

The power management skills gap

A recent survey by Freeform Dynamics of 320 senior data centre professionals reveals that datacentre[...]

Getting all-flash storage investment approved

We are at an interesting time in the all-flash storage array market

Technology as a catalyst for cultural change

Time for a more inspirational approach?

Managing Cloud Complexity

The emerging role of converged services

Unleashing the full potential of all-flash arrays

The network is part of the system too

IT Decision-Making in the Digital Age

Making the right technology investments in today’s fast moving digital age can mean the difference[...]

Desktop budget wrangles

Whose device is it anyway?

Cloud computing reality check

Introduction: Is cloud really a kind of magic? Many have positioned cloud computing as the[...]

Poor capacity planning is not our fault

Sysadmins explain why things are so crap

All-flash storage uncertainty and doubt

In a nutshell All-flash arrays are arguably coming of age, but in an early market,[...]

IT Ops as a Digital Business Enabler

Some argue that IT operations doesn’t matter anymore; it’s all about developers. Our aim in[...]

A peek behind the AI bandwagon

When an important topic or trend gives rise to a marketing and media bandwagon, any[...]

Intelligent Systems in Action Infographic

The rise of the machines has already begun

The Impact of Cloud on IT Teams

We often hear that cloud computing dramatically reduces the need for in-house IT teams, and[...]

Taking Sales Performance to the Next Level

So you’ve invested in CRM, and maybe a set of sophisticated modelling and analytics tools[...]

Intelligent Systems in Action

As technology becomes smarter, more opportunities arise to exploit AI, machine learning and other forms[...]

Digital Disrupters do it to Themselves

The word ’digital’ seems to have overtaken ’cloud’ as the hottest word in the IT[...]

Timeless principles of selling

When I first moved into software sales about 25 years ago, my then boss gave[...]

Taking DevOps to the Next Level

It’s all about continuous delivery

Agonising over cloud versus on-premise

In a nutshell Keeping your IT infrastructure in line with evolving application and business needs[...]

A higher impact approach to IT investment

In a nutshell You may have doubts about the value for money or level of[...]

Enterprise Git in Perspective

In a nutshell If asked to name a distributed version control system (DVCS), most people[...]

Cyber Security Ownership and Responsibility

It’s easy to be caught out by a cyber attack or internal mistake that leads[...]

iPad Pro as a laptop replacement? WRONG QUESTION. Ditch that paper notebook!

I have used iPads for many years, but they have always been ’nice to have’[...]