By Dale Vile Software as a Service (SaaS) is potentially a great fit for small and medium businesses (SMBs). Consuming business applications as services delivered over the internet means you…
By Dale Vile In the beginning there was Microsoft Office. Well, it sometimes seems that way given how much this software suite has become embedded into the fabric of many…
By Dale Vile SMBs and cloud computing are a match made in heaven. That’s the theory, at least, and it’s based on the principle that smaller businesses have less in…
By Dale Vile This article was originally published for the channel. SMBs are now turning to the cloud to meet their IT needs”. If you have anything to do with…
Organisations of all sizes are trying to understand the security implications of mobile working, device proliferation and BYOD. But with IT vendors offering up a broad range of options, it…
By Dale Vile Writing about two totally different machines in the same blog post might seem a little odd. After all, what’s the point in a comparison if it isn’t…
In this short paper, we spell out why the time has come to adopt a more proactive approach to what IT people call ‘data protection’, and how the discussion should…
Proprietary cloud threatens lock-in, higher cost and application silos. There is an alternative: OpenStack is the open source cloud operating system. Backers claim that it’s the disruptive technology that the…
Three years ago you listened to vendors telling you how much we would all save from virtualisation. It seemed so plausible, but for most of us the savings never arrived.…
With more departmental applications, collaboration and sharing environments, and even cloud-based services, with access via desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones, are we in danger of losing control of our business…
A lot has been said about the strategic advantages (and problems) of BYOD, but much less about how to build a wireless infrastructure for it. Good job we’re here to…
Cloud computing, and Software as a Service (SaaS) in particular, can in theory deliver a lot of value to small and medium sized businesses, but are the benefits real? If…
By Dale Vile As an industry analyst, it sometimes feels like I am flitting between two parallel universes. In one, I sit in rooms with IT marketing professionals and product…
By Dale Vile Ask anyone in the industry about the future of end user computing and the chances are that the response will major heavily on smartphones and tablets, and…
By Dale Vile The desktop productivity space has been dominated for many years by Microsoft Office. Open source alternatives and cloud services like Google Apps have made some inroads, but…
Users today are working in a highly connected manner, often across a range of different devices, and real-time collaboration mechanisms are now an integral part of many business environments.
Research shows that you are going to mix your platforms and deployment models in the future. So, the next question: which apps and workloads run on which platforms? You have…
By Dale Vile Yahoo!’s decision last month to axe home working prompted a lot of debate. Common reactions ranged from outrage, through incredulity, to the sad shaking of heads on…
By Dale Vile There’s a trick we use at Freeform Dynamics when trying to figure out the true significance, if any, of the ‘latest big thing’ being promoted by IT…
By Dale Vile The latest catchy but dubious term to emanate from the vendor and pundit community in an attempt to get our attention is ‘The Rogue Cloud’. The word…
By Dale Vile Most forms of cloud computing are starting to find their place in mainstream IT delivery. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is providing greater flexibility and better economy…
By Dale Vile In a previous article we highlighted the fact that many organisations could do a lot better when it comes to electronic integration with their customers and suppliers.…
