Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation
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[...]
Private Cloud and Data Centre Evolution
Will every data centre become a cloud? As nearly everyone working in IT understands, things[...]
Translating private cloud into customer requirements
Identifying the ingredients that make the difference for agile IT The term ‘Private Cloud’ is[...]
Engineering IT for agility – Getting the foundations right
One of the certainties when it comes to running IT is that change is constant.[...]
Does Microsoft need to change its policy on Windows upgrade pricing to drive tablet momentum?
Microsoft is unveiling a whole new generation of Windows on October 26th 2012, and significant[...]
How representative is social media data for marketing analytics?
You don’t have to move in specialist digital marketing circles to have come across the[...]
Data fragmentation challenges restrict business flexibility
Business must be ready to respond to rapidly changing market conditions. For any organisation to[...]
Siloed approach to IT security increases business risk
It is said that the technology at the heart of IT changes at a bewildering[...]
Private Cloud and IT Service Delivery
The impacts on budgets, reporting and IT delivery models. When economic times are hard there[...]
Getting private cloud to play nicely
By Dale Vile We were surprised at the strength of positive sentiment and relative lack[...]
Playing the SLA long game
By Dale Vile When IT is your day job it’s easy to lose sight of[...]