Dale Vile

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Dale Vile 15 February 2016 No Comments

Managing PC estates is a time-consuming, expensive and thankless task. Better provisioning and management tools can obviously help, but implementing one or more of the various forms of desktop virtualisation…

Stressed Networks Create a Channel Opportunity

Dale Vile 17 December 2015 No Comments

No one needs telling that the pressure on their network infrastructure is growing. In fact those participating in a recent Freeform Dynamics research study were all too aware of the…

Mobile Security Infographic

Dale Vile 2 December 2015 No Comments

Content Contributors: Dale Vile & Jack Vile

Assembling the DevOps Jigsaw

Dale Vile 18 November 2015 No Comments

The world we live in is increasingly digital. As the smart use of technology leads to markets speeding up and becoming ever more unpredictable, a strong set of established offerings…

Exploiting the Software Advantage

Dale Vile 1 November 2015 No Comments

Advances in digital technology create significant opportunities to transform both customer engagement and business operations. As the trends in these areas continue, feedback from 1,442 respondents in a recent survey…

Infrastructure Readiness Temperature Check

Dale Vile 19 October 2015 No Comments

IT infrastructures are often coping pretty well with current business requirements, but many IT professionals are aware that new and changing needs will lead to future capability gaps. They also…

Modern Storage Options for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

Dale Vile 30 September 2015 No Comments

If you work in a small or medium-sized business environment, storage is probably something you only think about when you need more capacity or have to implement a new application.…

Data Protection and Management in a Box

Dale Vile 30 September 2015 No Comments

In today’s fast-moving, information-intensive business environment, data management is more of a challenge than ever. Relying on manual processes and scripts, or ad hoc piecemeal automation, is not sustainable

Ceph as an Enabler of Growth and Scalability

Dale Vile 30 September 2015 No Comments

A perennial problem with storage is how to deal with escalating requirements in a smooth, manageable and non-disruptive manner. By removing many of the traditional limits on system expansion, Ceph…

Taking Cyber Security to the Next Level

Dale Vile 30 September 2015 No Comments

As cyber security threats become more sophisticated, targeted and persistent, it’s no longer possible to block all attacks. Measures to detect intrusions are now at least as important as those…

Safe and Secure Mobile Working

Dale Vile 23 September 2015 No Comments

For many of us, our work life and social life are becoming intermingled. We can use our phones,laptops, tablets and USB sticks for business or pleasure and we like to…

The Escalating Mobile Security Challenge

Dale Vile 23 September 2015 No Comments

Just as IT professionals and others responsible for mobile security have come to terms with BYOD, the problem has moved on, with the lines between business and personal activity blurring…

Mobile Security and the Challenge of User Resistance

Dale Vile 23 September 2015 No Comments

Mobile security is becoming more of a headache as the crossover between business and personal activity continues to increase, and employees generally expect more freedom. Research suggests, however, that you…

User-Centric Mobile Security

Dale Vile 15 September 2015 No Comments

Not so long ago, many were speculating that ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) would define the future of end user computing. Most organisations today, however, see a role for both…

Future Proofing Your Network

Dale Vile 1 September 2015 No Comments

Network traffic flows have become pretty complex in today’s distributed business environment, and not just for large corporates. This became clear during a recent research study in which 610 small/medium-sized…

Mobile Working without the Tears

Dale Vile 22 July 2015 No Comments

As both company and personally owned mobile devices are increasingly used in business, understanding and dealing with the associated risks has become a significant concern for many. In this report…

Windows Server 2003 end of support – Don’t panic, do something secure, now

Dale Vile 12 June 2015 No Comments

Webcast recorded 12th June 2015 Firstly, Tony Lock and Dale Vile show you where your Windows Server 2003s are hiding, and what your options are when you find them. Secondly,…

Cloud Security Temperature Check

Dale Vile 1 June 2015 No Comments

In a recent online survey in which responses were gathered from almost three hundred IT and business professionals, we investigated the related set of challenges and risks arising from fragmented…

What scares you most about ‘the cloud’?

Dale Vile 1 June 2015 No Comments

Cloud computing has gone mainstream. While a hard-core of naysayers still exists, the black-and-white negative viewpoint is a lot less common today than it was a year or two ago.…

Evolution of the OpenText portfolio

Dale Vile 20 May 2015 No Comments

A few days into my first software sales role back in the 90’s, I was pulled to one side by my boss, who said: “My boy, you have a problem.…

Storage Quality of Service Management

Dale Vile 7 May 2015 No Comments

Organisations are increasingly turning to multi-tiered shared storage environments to deal with growing data volumes, changing business requirements, and IT delivery models. Managing Quality of Service (QoS) at scale, however,…

Orchestrating the DevOps Tool Chain

Dale Vile 20 April 2015 No Comments

A great deal has been written about how trends in digital communication and engagement are changing the business landscape, and you probably don’t need reminding of what’s going on in…

Data Virtualisation for DevOps

Dale Vile 18 March 2015 No Comments

The DevOps movement is supported by a whole range of tools, and is particularly well served by the Open Source community. Whether it’s Jenkins, Nexus, Maven or the many other…

Strategic DevOps Adoption

Dale Vile 10 March 2015 No Comments

An interesting remark I heard at a recent CIO gathering was “DevOps is the first genuinely strategic topic that IT suppliers have promoted in years”. This same CIO went on…