Category Archives: 3. Hybrid Systems Delivery
SOA and Growth Markets
by Jon Collins and Dale Vile KEY FINDINGS SOA is as relevant in growth economies[...]
BT and Cloud
By Dale Vile While the cloud computing market is in its infancy at the moment,[...]
Clarity on Cloud
By Dale Vile A senior exec from a major IT vendor recently commented in a[...]
Server Platforms and Operating Systems
By Tony Lock What’s happening today in the server infrastructures deployed by organisations, large and[...]
Challenging the cloud revolution
By Dale Vile Some niche and emerging enterprise IT suppliers, such as Salesforce.com, Google and[...]
The Business Service Management Imperative
by Jon Collins What is Business Service Management, anyway? Business Service Management (BSM) has been[...]
WAN Optimisation
There is a lot of talk concerning ’Cloud services’. But what are some of the[...]
How to ensure a smooth converged comms transition
by Josie Sephton Converged communications promises to accelerate business processes and remove frustration and friction[...]
Taking stock of the IT environment
by Martin Atherton and Jon Collins The business demands more and more from its investment[...]
Application Platforms
by Jon Collins and Martin Atherton KEY FINDINGS The principle of application platforms is clear,[...]
Taking cloud to the mainstream
by Dale Vile The hype around cloud computing is pretty intensive. The IT industry and[...]
Data Centres, Carbon and Clouds
by David Tebbutt The purpose of this paper is to set the data centre and[...]
Service Orientation in Business
by Jon Collins KEY FINDINGS While change is a certainty in business, some still struggle[...]
Risk and Resilience
The application availability gamble The modern business is highly dependent on IT. When systems go[...]
Cloud Computing: Silver lining…
by David Tebbutt Since so many people are talking about cloud computing, it really wouldn’t[...]
Green Computing
By David Tebbutt and Dale Vile Today’s newspapers are awash with green initiatives. Where computers[...]
IT on the front foot
by Jon Collins and Dale Vile A number of new and established approaches to IT[...]
Storage Vendors for All Sizes
by Tony Lock I have spent a lot of time over the course of the[...]
The Great Virtualization Debate
by Tony Lock With virtualization close to the top of every CIO’s to do list,[...]
Relieving the Systems Management Burden
by Martin Atherton The management of operational IT is not without its challenges, indeed it[...]
IT Management Checkpoint
by Martin Atherton Existing IT management strategies have enabled organisations to take control of their[...]
Life in the SaaS lane
by Dale Vile Evangelists will tell you that Software as a Service (SaaS) is the[...]
Deploying CMDB Technology
by Martin Atherton As organisations look to improve how IT is delivered to the[...]