Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation
Marketing, selling and listening: essential elements of the IT skills set
There’s nothing new in the concept of IT marketing or selling itself to the business,[...]
Cloud Connectivity
By Andrew Buss KEY POINTS Connectivity is not widely perceived to be a major barrier[...]
Apples and Oranges – Are people really comparing like with like on the question of Mac versus Windows?
A couple of weeks ago, I had occasion to spend some time on a 4-5[...]
Does Office 365 keep its promises?
Running your email and office applications in the cloud is not a new idea; Google[...]
Business adoption of mobile devices
By Dale Vile Some of the most rapid and exciting developments in technology are taking[...]
Agile Development – The reality behind the philosophy
Business people often complain that IT projects take too long and deliver results that fall[...]
Cloud today, tomorrow, not yet
Given all the hype and conjecture recently, we could be forgiven for thinking that we[...]
Cloud Computing Checkpoint
By Dale Vile KEY POINTS Views of cloud computing are wide, varied and often contradictory[...]
Licensing in the virtual age
By Andrew Buss Having sat through countless vendor cloud pitches, there seems to be an[...]
Mobile Computing Checkpoint
By Dale Vile & Andrew Buss KEY FINDINGS Tales of the laptop PC’s death are[...]
Consumerism and productivity Part 1: Do users really know what technology is best for business?
Let me put my cards on the table. I do not, repeat not, subscribe to[...]
Consumerism and productivity Part 2: How to deal with employees’ devices in the workplace
In the first part of this discussion, I covered the hard reality of consumerisation and[...]
Information is a right, not a privilege
By Dale Vile Organisations today rely on effective management of business performance at all levels.[...]
Compliance: The legal landscape and how to navigate it
Every IT professional recognises the importance of securing the IT systems on which critical business[...]
Cloud and Storage
By Tony Lock The topic of “Cloud” has not escaped the attention of anyone in[...]
The other enterprise desktop
There are few topics in the IT industry that are more divisive than the option[...]
Rationalising software licencing in the virtual age
It was only a few weeks ago that we raised the topic of software licencing[...]
A road warrior’s experience with the iPad
Tales from 10 months of trial and error I have now been an iPad user[...]
The Royal Mail moves to the cloud
Private cloud is a nice theory, but what does it translate to in practice when[...]
Negotiating your way to a dynamic IT environment
That thorny question of software licenses The principle of server virtualisation is now pretty well[...]
Cloud Service Categories
There are many ways to classify cloud service offerings. The most basic is to relate[...]
The workload challenge
Today, IT Infrastructure is evolving at a tremendous pace. The Mainframe computer, now often referred[...]
Decision criteria for open source and proprietary software
The selection of operating systems was once one of the major decisions IT managers had[...]
The mainframe comes of age … again?
Economic pressure has led to more finance directors and CFOs scrutinising expenditure to a painstaking[...]