Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation

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[...]

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[...]