Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation
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[...]
Visualisation into action
Do you have lots of data but find it difficult to work out what it[...]
PaaS potential and practicality: This is a hype-free zone
One of the advantages of using Platform as a Service (PaaS) to develop and deploy[...]
Getting to grips with software licencing
IT is becoming more embedded within the business, with more use of IT for business[...]
The realities of SaaS and Security
With upgrades to Windows 7 and Office 2010 high on the agenda, questions are being[...]
Data Centre Orchestration webcast
In this Webinar Tony Lock, Tim Phillips (The Register), Graham Rushton (Avenade) and Greg Charman[...]
Where is the immediate cloud opportunity?
Let’s get specific Pinning the term ‘cloud computing’ down to a single definition is not[...]
Cloud computing in context
Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – BCS Meeting, Leeds, July 2010 Presenter(s) –[...]
The Consumerisation of IT
Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – BCS Meeting, Leeds, October 2010 Presenter(s) –[...]
The automation conundrum
By Andrew Buss Our research tells us that the move to virtualisation on volume servers[...]
Who say Management and SaaS don’t mix?
Management in IT is a challenge for many organisations. Integrated management is a tough nut[...]