Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation
Cloud is more about choice than hosting
By Dale Vile There’s a trick we use at Freeform Dynamics when trying to figure[...]
To PaaS or not to PaaS – that is the question
By Dale Vile Most forms of cloud computing are starting to find their place in[...]
Freedom without Anarchy
Empowering employees through the delegation of authority and trust can enhance innovation and productivity. But[...]
Building the future proof datacentre
By Andrew Buss The last decade has seen massive leaps in performance and capability across[...]
The next decade of data centre evolution
By Dale Vile To some, the mere concept of enterprise datacentres still being around in[...]
The data centre in 2020
By Tony Lock There has never been a clearer understanding of how quickly business is[...]
A Vision for the Data Centre
The death of on-premise IT as a result of hosted cloud services is greatly exaggerated.[...]
Defragging your Datacentre
By Andrew Buss The world of business is becoming faster moving, more competitive and ever[...]
Taming the procurement elephant
The cost of supplying IT services inside businesses has never been more visible with considerable[...]
Martini induced client-server redux
By Dale Vile If you see the phrase ‘anytime, anyplace, anywhere’ in relation to mobile[...]
Analytics and Big Data
By Tony Lock ‘Big Data’ is a hot topic receiving considerable attention from the marketing[...]
Upping your game with Windows Server 2012
Andrew Buss met up with Chris Losch, from Newham Council, and Gary Collins, from Intercept[...]
Why you need an interactive archive
Many organisations today only archive data when there is some external legislative driver forcing their[...]
Electronic trading dogged by information issues
By Dale Vile How many suppliers and customers do you trade with in the average[...]
Future-proofing the data centre
Dale Vile meets with Hewlett-Packard’s David Chalmers They discussed how recent innovations in server, storage[...]
IT Service Management and Business Requirements
By Tony Lock A couple of years before terms such as “Cloud”, “Big Data” and[...]
Bridging the great divide
By Andrew Buss At the Intel Developer Forum 2012 in San Francisco, Intel looked to[...]
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[...]
Social collaboration: From a faith-based to business-led approach
I have long been a sceptic of the ‘install it and they will figure out[...]
Effective B2B Integration
The way in which organisations communicate and transact across supply and demand chains has a[...]
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[...]