Category Archives: [ Analyst Opinion ]

When modern meetings don’t work

Analyst opinion Once upon a time, pretty much every meeting had a minute-taker – someone[...]

Is IBM relevant to today’s mainstream?

Analyst opinion When IT vendors talk about the market, they tend to focus on how[...]

DevOps is wasted unless the business goes Agile too

Analyst opinion When analysts and journalists write about Agile and DevOps, the focus is typically[...]

What can Chromebooks offer the enterprise desktop market?

Analyst opinion If you’re an IT professional managing a large desktop estate or an end[...]

A conference room for the future

Analyst opinion In some ways, the recent completion of Plantronics’ $2 billion purchase of Polycom[...]

Workplace software as an occupational hazard

Analyst opinion The US Department of Labor has updated its Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.[...]

Millennial versus Mature – who’s the real IT security risk?

Analyst opinion Passwords have been the mainstay for securing applications, devices and the data they[...]

Your PC is rooted and jailbroken: deal with it!

Analyst opinion One of the defining characteristics of the modern digital workplace is a PC[...]

Cloud storage is hot

Analyst opinion But do people know what they mean when they talk about it –[...]

Xero highlights the role of the modern software ecosystem

Looking beyond the technology I recently caught up with Gary Turner, co-founder and managing of[...]

Growth mindset lets Microsoft love Linux

Analyst opinion Timed to coincide with the RSA security conference, Microsoft has announced Azure Sphere,[...]

Routes to AI goodness

Analyst opinion It’s all too easy to conflate the kind of AI being hyped in[...]

Time to dump the all-flash scepticism

Analyst opinion When we surveyed several hundred IT professionals on the topic of All-Flash Arrays,[...]

Microsoft’s challenge for 2018: mindshare & market relevance

Analyst opinion Microsoft’s revenues are up, but compared to its biggest competitors — Amazon, Apple,[...]