Dale Vile

Virgin Media Business and its SMB proposition

Dale Vile 24 February 2015 No Comments

Over the years, I have grown increasingly sceptical about the ability of most Telcos to operate effectively outside of their traditional comfort zone. So many times, they have declared great…

The Promise and Practicalities of Flash

Dale Vile 19 February 2015 No Comments

With the flash storage market developing rapidly it’s important to understand the nature of the technology. This paper looks at the role of flash storage in the modern data centre…

Hyper-Scale Data Management

Dale Vile 17 February 2015 No Comments

The term ‘Software Defined Storage’ is used to describe a wide range of ideas and offerings. This makes it hard to pinpoint specific opportunities. Fully supported enterprise class solutions based…

Devices, recruitment and staff retention

Dale Vile 9 February 2015 No Comments

In a nutshell Some say it’s not possible to recruit and retain good staff nowadays unless you offer them the latest desirable devices or allow them to use their own…

Build a DevOps culture

Dale Vile 7 February 2015 No Comments

Everyone’s talking about DevOps, but not everyone can do it. This webcast covers the balance between innovation and optimisation and how to keep control of the process to ensure it…

STORAGE under PRESSURE

Dale Vile 28 January 2015 No Comments

Meeting basic storage needs has been a necessity for some time now. But with rapid changes taking place in both the business and technology worlds, how is the storage environment…

Creating the Storage Advantage

Dale Vile 27 January 2015 No Comments

By Dale Vile Management Summary Most organisations are able to deal with their basic storage needs, but how are requirements developing, and is technology evolving to meet new and changing…

Creating more harmony around end user computing

Dale Vile 11 December 2014 No Comments

In a nutshell Tensions frequently arise between business units and the IT teams as users have become more informed and opinionated, and sought greater levels of freedom and flexibility around…

Insurance through the Looking Glass – Video

Dale Vile 5 December 2014 No Comments

Customer-centric business in an increasingly digital world

Rethinking desktop delivery

Dale Vile 4 December 2014 No Comments

In a nutshell Many IT professionals are weary of the relentless Windows upgrade spiral and the cost and disruption it brings. Rethinking desktop delivery, however, can both ease the pain…

User flexibility without the risk

Dale Vile 2 December 2014 No Comments

In a nutshell Most organisations are seeing users and business groups starting to make their own technology decisions to some degree or another. On the one hand this provides those…

Insurance through the Looking Glass

Dale Vile 30 November 2014 No Comments

Creating a more customer centric business environment has historically been hard to achieve. In this paper, we will examine how technology and market trends, together with changes in the regulatory…

Security policy and EU data protection regulation

Dale Vile 6 November 2014 No Comments

Websense research finds that 40% of UK security professionals never speak to their executive board about cybersecurity issues. But we all know that there are things that they really need…

The Politics and Practicalities of End User Computing

Dale Vile 1 November 2014 No Comments

With the phenomenal rise in the adoption of smartphones, tablets and other desirable devices, many pundits predict that the direction of corporate IT will increasingly be defined by end users.…

So what you gonna do about DevOps?

Dale Vile 27 October 2014 No Comments

Having to deal with the ‘next big thing’ once or twice a year is a fact of life in the IT industry. Whether it’s cloud, social, big data or the…

Avoiding the runaway code train

Dale Vile 14 October 2014 No Comments

More and more code, delivered faster and faster. According to many, that’s the imperative if you want to keep up with today’s fast-paced, mobile-enabled, digital-first business environment. We are told…

Flexible IT governance

Dale Vile 4 October 2014 No Comments

We want flexibility but, if we’re not careful, we get governance confusion as well. In your organisation, is it clear who is responsible and accountable for service delivery? Because most…

Into the Compute Era. Your data centre for the next 25 years

Dale Vile 30 September 2014 No Comments

Converged infrastructure, the software defined data centre and cloud computing allow you to optimise your hardware for your workload, but that’s just the beginning of this story. This webcast takes…

Friendly ERP architecture

Dale Vile 18 September 2014 No Comments

Using Cloud for everyone everywhere

Dale Vile 18 September 2014 No Comments

Attitudes to SaaS

Dale Vile 18 September 2014 No Comments

User desires versus business needs

Dale Vile 10 September 2014 No Comments

Much has been written about the rise of user influence and power. Some of it might exaggerate the degree to which phenomena such BYOD and shadow IT now define the…

The Democratization of IT Disaster Recovery

Dale Vile 9 September 2014 No Comments

If it has been a while since you thought about your DR measures, or a review has been prompted by a risk assessment, compliance audit, actual disaster or some other…

The IT vendor empathy gap

Dale Vile 1 September 2014 No Comments

Industry analysts, CIOs and others involved in the IT decision making process are on the receiving end of a lot of vendor pitches, and it can sometimes get a little…