Author Archives: Tony Lock
Taming the procurement elephant
The cost of supplying IT services inside businesses has never been more visible with considerable[...]
Email is so last century
By Tony Lock Over the course of the last year or two an assertion has[...]
Analytics and Big Data
By Tony Lock ‘Big Data’ is a hot topic receiving considerable attention from the marketing[...]
Why you need an interactive archive
Many organisations today only archive data when there is some external legislative driver forcing their[...]
IT Service Management and Business Requirements
By Tony Lock A couple of years before terms such as “Cloud”, “Big Data” and[...]
Big Data and Analytics
Results of a web survey illustrate the state of business information and analytics today. Just[...]
Data Entry and Device Control
By Tony Lock When computers were first created, all attention was centred on getting answers[...]
Lack of Understanding inhibits adoption of Big Data
By Tony Lock Read any IT publication, online or hard copy, and it is hard[...]
Datacentre in a box – Something for everyone?
CIOs have a tough job delivering an expanding range of services to ever more demanding[...]
The Big Data Revolution
Big Data suffers misuse but at its heart is really about getting more value from[...]
What should CIOs be demanding of Storage Vendors?
In most organisations the acquisition of storage and its associated management tools was, until recently,[...]
Personal Use of a Windows Tablet in Business – It’s ready for operational use
There is no doubt that “Tablet” devices and “Slates” are attracting a lot of attention[...]
The Rise of User Centric IT – Is the consumerisation of IT a benefit to anyone?
There is a long history of end users wanting, or ‘needing’, to have ‘different’ tools[...]
Private Cloud and Data Centre Evolution
Will every data centre become a cloud? As nearly everyone working in IT understands, things[...]
Data fragmentation challenges restrict business flexibility
Business must be ready to respond to rapidly changing market conditions. For any organisation to[...]
Siloed approach to IT security increases business risk
It is said that the technology at the heart of IT changes at a bewildering[...]
Private Cloud and IT Service Delivery
The impacts on budgets, reporting and IT delivery models. When economic times are hard there[...]
Private Cloud Forecast – Sunny or Stormy times ahead for CIOs?
Businesses are still operating under enormous economic pressure and, as would be expected, this continues[...]
The infrastructure and management implications of Desktop Virtualisation
Desktops are now visibly mission critical Desktop Virtualisation is a topic that has enjoyed considerable[...]
Seven enablers of effective disaster recovery for SMEs
By Tony Lock In a nutshell: Recent research carried out by Freeform Dynamics identified seven[...]
Unified Infrastructure Management
Wonderful in theory, but few have it available Going back, say, five or ten years,[...]
Delivering better services with integrated management
What’s in it for IT professionals? When systems are implemented and managed in isolation, it[...]
Conducting the trio, not orchestrating a symphony
Tunes to get you started ’Dynamic workload management’ and ’private cloud’ are just two of[...]
IT Infrastructure Management Must Move with the Times
The technologies and solutions used in the IT infrastructure have changed dramatically over the years,[...]