Author Archives: Dale Vile
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[...]
Six common impediments to effective IT change management
We at Freeform Dynamics have been running surveys and interactive workshops with The Register’s readership[...]
The great DR divide
Business continuity solutions only for large organisations? IT vendors and consulting firms who sell disaster[...]
Banging your head against the invisible wall
Has virtualisation really moved the game forward? OK, so you’ve virtualised a bunch of servers[...]
Keeping Score in the Public Sector
With a mandate to make public records broadly available online, yet at the same time[...]
The Business of Electronic Data Storage
By Dale Vile, Tony Lock and Martha Bennett Introduction Storage and retrieval of electronic data[...]
Operating Models in Context
By Dale Vile Change is a fact of life in business, but it’s generally not[...]
Moving Information Management Forwards
By Tony Lock & Dale Vile Locating and accessing information required to run the business[...]
Data retention, FOI and the storage budget
The data retention policy in too many organisations has historically boiled down to ‘keep everything[...]
Enabling Rapid and Effective IT Recovery
IT vendors have traditionally targeted the lucrative large enterprise market with their data protection and[...]
Challenging the big change agenda
Marketing people and management consultants love the words ‘transformation’ and ‘innovation’. As you listen to[...]
A View from Above the Clouds
Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – IAP Symposium, 14th October 2011 Presenter(s) –[...]
The Consumerisation of IT (Slides)
Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – VMUG Meeting, Leeds, October 2011 Presenter(s) –[...]
The Consumerisation of IT
With so many people excited about ‘bring your own device’ and easily accessible cloud services,[...]
Use of social media by analysts and analyst relations professionals
I recently had the pleasure of attending an event run by the Institute of Industry[...]
Defining the Business Change Agenda
Transformation and innovation are often worthy objectives for change initiatives, but business people tell us[...]
The Business Information Illusion
By Dale Vile KEY POINTS The pace of business today dictates devolved management and decision-making[...]
The SME security challenge
Over the years, research findings have consistently demonstrated widespread exposure to risk when it comes[...]
Are you slaving away on the wrong projects?
Get your priorities straight One of the hardest decisions that the IT department faces was[...]
The impact of Cloud on IT
By Andrew Buss and Dale Vile KEY POINTS Cloud is complementary to existing IT infrastructure[...]
Complexity killed the IT quality of service …
“Ring, ring…” “IT support. How can I help you?” “The system’s really slow. It’s taking[...]
Service management: we are all judged on service delivery
All IT departments are judged on the basis of service delivery, whether they work that[...]
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[...]