Author Archives: Dale Vile
Cloud – Is it an opportunity to increase your SMB Business?
SMBs are increasingly using cloud services, and want their local resellers and service providers to[...]
The SaaS opportunity for SMBs
By Dale Vile Software as a Service (SaaS) is potentially a great fit for small[...]
Office 365 in context
By Dale Vile In the beginning there was Microsoft Office. Well, it sometimes seems that[...]
Unravelling the SMB SaaS opportunity for resellers
By Dale Vile SMBs and cloud computing are a match made in heaven. That’s the[...]
SMBs are tumbling into the cloud? Oh get real
By Dale Vile This article was originally published for the channel. SMBs are now turning[...]
The End User Security Jigsaw
Organisations of all sizes are trying to understand the security implications of mobile working, device[...]
Why I chose the MacBook Air over the Surface Pro
By Dale Vile Writing about two totally different machines in the same blog post might[...]
The Data Protection Imperative
In this short paper, we spell out why the time has come to adopt a[...]
All about OpenStack
Proprietary cloud threatens lock-in, higher cost and application silos. There is an alternative: OpenStack is[...]
Virtualisation where are my savings?
Three years ago you listened to vendors telling you how much we would all save[...]
Storage Anywhere and Everywhere
With more departmental applications, collaboration and sharing environments, and even cloud-based services, with access via[...]
Think your IT department’s parochial? Try selling to SMEs
By Dale Vile This article was originally published for the channel. It’s been a few[...]
BYOD beyond the noise
A lot has been said about the strategic advantages (and problems) of BYOD, but much[...]
Raising your game with Software as a Service
Cloud computing, and Software as a Service (SaaS) in particular, can in theory deliver a[...]
’Big Data changes EVERYTHING’ vs ’Hadoop? For my 200-customer biz?’
By Dale Vile As an industry analyst, it sometimes feels like I am flitting between[...]
Don’t forget the desktop
By Dale Vile Ask anyone in the industry about the future of end user computing[...]
Office Software Checkpoint
By Dale Vile The desktop productivity space has been dominated for many years by Microsoft[...]
Office 365 in Context
Users today are working in a highly connected manner, often across a range of different[...]
Workload placement in a hybrid world
Research shows that you are going to mix your platforms and deployment models in the[...]
Do SMBs have less of a mobile and collaboration need?
By Dale Vile Yahoo!’s decision last month to axe home working prompted a lot of[...]
Cloud is more about choice than hosting
By Dale Vile There’s a trick we use at Freeform Dynamics when trying to figure[...]
User driven IT adoption – Problem or opportunity?
By Dale Vile The latest catchy but dubious term to emanate from the vendor and[...]