Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation

So what you gonna do about DevOps?

Having to deal with the ‘next big thing’ once or twice a year is a[...]

Avoiding the runaway code train

More and more code, delivered faster and faster. According to many, that’s the imperative if[...]

How much of your mainstream IT capacity does mobility consume?

Few doubt the increasing popularity of mobile devices, specifically smartphones and tablets. Their numbers grow[...]

Flexible IT governance

We want flexibility but, if we’re not careful, we get governance confusion as well. In[...]

Do more of your apps deserve better DR?

What does IT disaster recovery (DR) mean to you? Does it bring to mind racks[...]

User desires versus business needs

Much has been written about the rise of user influence and power. Some of it[...]

The IT vendor empathy gap

Industry analysts, CIOs and others involved in the IT decision making process are on the[...]

Have you planned for a ’friendly’ DDoS attack?

Malicious Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks do not occur often. Nevertheless, for an enterprise[...]

Accommodating increased user influence

Business people often complain that the IT department is not keeping up with their needs.[...]

IT-Business Alignment Revisited

In some organisations, the tension between IT and business teams has come to a head[...]

Social media and why businesses need to embrace it

As a teenager just entering the world of business I had to go through a[...]

Wake up, grandad: All the techies use social media

Ever since I passed the big five-o, I have noticed more and more youngsters who[...]

User Access – Time for a change?

User expectations and the range of devices they use to access IT systems are growing[...]

Migrating to Windows Server 2012

Extended support for Windows Server 2003 ends on 14 July 2015, so you need to[...]

End User Computing:

This paper is written for business executives and managers with an interest in how technology[...]

Mobile security is more than protecting local data

By now we’ve all heard the term Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). This phenomenon is[...]

What are APT’s?

What is an APT? APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat. The goal of this form[...]

Say What?

Recently I attended the IBM Security Systems Analyst Meet the Experts day in Heathrow. With[...]

Security: the oft-forgotten dimension

Computer security is a hot topic today, and much talked about. There are endless emanations[...]

Juggling Performance, Availability and Security

By Tony Lock A recent report from Freeform Dynamics illustrates that many corporate networks are[...]

Controlling Application Access

Application performance, availability and security challenges are quietly creeping up in the context of internal[...]