Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation
Will the CMO inherit the Earth?
By Dale Vile Two narratives concerning the CIO/CMO relationship are doing the rounds at the[...]
Voice recognition in healthcare
By Dale Vile I first discovered dictation software back in 2001 when I ended up[...]
Software Defined Networking (SDN) continues to move forwards
By Charles Brett and Tony Lock During an Analyst Briefing at the IBM Development Laboratory[...]
Social Business and unknown unknowns
By Charles Brett At an Analyst Briefing in London in late September IBM described what[...]
Device Proliferation and Data Fragmentation
By Tony Lock Bring your own device (BYOD) continues to attract considerable attention, but the[...]
Clouds and the Data Centre weather forecast
By Tony Lock Enterprise Data Centres are complex collections of systems acquired over long spans[...]
The End User Security Jigsaw
Organisations of all sizes are trying to understand the security implications of mobile working, device[...]
The Data Protection Imperative
In this short paper, we spell out why the time has come to adopt a[...]
Data Protection as a Business Enabler
While the importance of business information is almost universally recognised, few organisations have enjoyed either[...]
Storage Anywhere and Everywhere
With more departmental applications, collaboration and sharing environments, and even cloud-based services, with access via[...]
Don’t forget the desktop
By Dale Vile Ask anyone in the industry about the future of end user computing[...]
DCIM and Energy Management
By Tony Lock Over several decades IT management has focussed almost exclusively on keeping servers[...]
Speeding up ‘Change’
By Tony Lock For much of the last decade ‘IT’ has become something of a[...]
Empowering your users the ‘right way’
By Tony Lock Many organisations say their people are among the most valuable assets they[...]
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[...]