Our recent research highlights that many organisations are considering refreshing their desktop estates or have already begun projects in this area. While it is clear the usual desktop refresh cycle…
Some things in life, such as taxes and the music of the younger generation, have been around forever – and yet we are still not comfortable with them. The same…
Management in IT is a challenge for many organisations. Integrated management is a tough nut to crack and many companies struggle with fragmented management environments just to keep their systems…
By Tony Lock & Dale Vile KEY FINDINGS With desktop refresh now on the agenda, the virtualisation option comes into focus Many organisations skipped a turn of the desktop refresh…
In all areas of business, security and privacy are built on good policy, properly applied. If you think moving to hosted services or software as a service (SaaS) changes this,…
In a world where it is possible to create credential-stealing malware and where users are supposed happy to trade passwords for a bar of chocolate in a railway station survey,…
What could be new about backup and recovery? After all, everyone has been doing it in some form or another ever since computing began. But then again, even though this…
IT managers use two terms when talking about systems availability. These are: High Availability or “HA”, for keeping systems running without any form of unplanned down time; and Disaster Recovery…
We know many of you remain sceptical of the whole ‘Cloud’ thing and are unsure of what it is , because World+dog seems to be using or abusing the term…
Business and IT are now changing with a rapidity never before seen while at the same time budgets are under close scrutiny. Many aspects of IT investment are expected to…
Power users are often at the cutting edge of an organisation’s revenue generation, product development, operational excellence or strategic core, and as such they require excellent IT systems to support…
Desktop support is something every organisation does using a variety of tools, people and processes, using both trained and qualified staff through to the unsanctioned, and often badly informed “I…
By Tony Lock The rapid growth in the amount of stored data means that the importance of data protection has never been greater. It is surprising then that few organisations…
In earlier articles in this workshop we reported on research carried out by Freeform Dynamics that organisations are not entirely happy with the systems management tools available to them to…
According to Freeform Dynamics research, many IT departments are seeking to become better aligned with business needs and are looking to ensure that systems and IT resources are being deployed…
In an earlier article in this workshop we considered the challenges associated with procuring system management technologies. We know from our research amongst IT administrators that making a business case…
Desktop virtualisation is attracting serious attention as organisations consider the future potential directions for delivering IT applications and services. The successful deployment of desktop virtualisation is ultimately dependent on both…
Ever since the industrial revolution there have been periods when businesses have prospered simply on the back of the general growth in the economy. Equally it is true that there…
Managing risk in business has always been more of an art form than a science. The same is true of the practice of managing IT risk. As we know, businesses…
IT increasingly plays a pivotal role in business processes. The importance of systems to the efficiency of business operations makes maintaining the quality of service delivered by IT platforms a…
By Jon Collins and Tony Lock Executive summary Few organisations today would deny their absolute dependency on both their computer systems and on the information they store. Rapid data growth…
Desktop virtualisation is attracting serious attention as organisations consider the future potential directions for delivering IT applications and services. The successful deployment of desktop virtualisation is ultimately dependent on both…
Migrating desktops is never easy. The promise of better management and security that is offered by desktop virtualisation is adding a new twist to the many desktop migration projects that…
As anyone who has started down the path will confirm, desktop virtualisation is not a single thing – rather it offers a number of ways of modernising the management of…
