Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation

Playing the SLA long game

By Dale Vile When IT is your day job it’s easy to lose sight of[...]

From virtualisation to private cloud

Lots of people are talking about private cloud as the next natural step from virtualisation.[...]

Private Cloud Forecast – Sunny or Stormy times ahead for CIOs?

Businesses are still operating under enormous economic pressure and, as would be expected, this continues[...]

Analyst Headlines: Accelerating Cloud Adoption

Andrew Buss explains how enterprise drivers and aspirations will shape cloud adoption and the opportunity[...]

Behind the Headlines: Accelerating Cloud Adoption

Andrew Buss explains how enterprise drivers and aspirations will shape cloud adoption and the opportunity[...]

Analyst Headlines: Securing the Access

Andrew Buss discusses the impact of the mega trends such as the Consumerization of IT[...]

Behind the Headlines: Securing the Access

Andrew Buss discusses the impact of the mega trends such as the Consumerization of IT[...]

Analyst Headlines: Securing the Wide Area

Andrew Buss discusses how security needs to become embedded and automated within the network and[...]

Behind the Headlines: Securing the Wide Area

Andrew Buss discusses how security needs to become embedded and automated within the network and[...]

Unilever adopts new technology to drive agile infrastructure delivery

Andrew Buss speaks with Garry Meaburn, the operations effectiveness and tooling manager at Unilever and[...]

BPM from back office to front office and beyond

Are you tough enough to take on BPM and win? Someone has to. It has[...]

Selected highlights from IBM UK Impact 2012, London

Websphere and beyond On June 12th, IBM Southbank hosted a one-day version of its Impact[...]

Private Cloud and IT Service Delivery

By Martha Bennett, Tony Lock & Dale Vile Key Points IT funding is under stress,[...]

The Links between Public and Private Cloud

By Martha Bennett and Tony Lock Key Points ‘Cloud’ concepts are widely understood, but practical[...]

Beware of what you ask – you might just get the answer

One of the perils inherent in Big Data projects About 20 years ago, we were[...]

Desktop Virtualization

Desktop virtualization has progressed from a niche way of handling exceptional user requirements to a[...]

Private Cloud in Context

To make sense of private cloud, you need unravel it from the broader cloud computing[...]

Energy Aware Planning and Decision Making

Energy availability and management is increasingly becoming an important agenda item for IT leaders, but[...]

Working smarter, not harder

What options are there to help people work together more effectively? The emergence of new[...]

Seven enablers of effective disaster recovery for SMEs

By Tony Lock In a nutshell: Recent research carried out by Freeform Dynamics identified seven[...]

Your office in the cloud – dream or nightmare?

Considerations for SaaS-based email and office productivity tools Why go to all the trouble of[...]

Time to assess the value of the data you hold

Failing to do so could be costly There’s no need to rattle off another set[...]

Office 365 in the real world

A run through of precisely what it takes to move your business productivity apps to[...]

Delivering better services with integrated management

What’s in it for IT professionals? When systems are implemented and managed in isolation, it[...]