IT Strategy/Transformation Archives

Bridging the great divide

By Andrew Buss At the Intel Developer Forum 2012 in San Francisco, Intel looked to[...]

Data Entry and Device Control

By Tony Lock When computers were first created, all attention was centred on getting answers[...]

Lack of Understanding inhibits adoption of Big Data

By Tony Lock Read any IT publication, online or hard copy, and it is hard[...]

Social collaboration: From a faith-based to business-led approach

I have long been a sceptic of the ‘install it and they will figure out[...]

Effective B2B Integration

The way in which organisations communicate and transact across supply and demand chains has a[...]

What should CIOs be demanding of Storage Vendors?

In most organisations the acquisition of storage and its associated management tools was, until recently,[...]

Personal Use of a Windows Tablet in Business – It’s ready for operational use

There is no doubt that “Tablet” devices and “Slates” are attracting a lot of attention[...]

The Rise of User Centric IT – Is the consumerisation of IT a benefit to anyone?

There is a long history of end users wanting, or ‘needing’, to have ‘different’ tools[...]

Private Cloud and Data Centre Evolution

Will every data centre become a cloud? As nearly everyone working in IT understands, things[...]

Translating private cloud into customer requirements

Identifying the ingredients that make the difference for agile IT The term ‘Private Cloud’ is[...]

Engineering IT for agility – Getting the foundations right

One of the certainties when it comes to running IT is that change is constant.[...]

Does Microsoft need to change its policy on Windows upgrade pricing to drive tablet momentum?

Microsoft is unveiling a whole new generation of Windows on October 26th 2012, and significant[...]

How representative is social media data for marketing analytics?

You don’t have to move in specialist digital marketing circles to have come across the[...]

Data fragmentation challenges restrict business flexibility

Business must be ready to respond to rapidly changing market conditions. For any organisation to[...]

Siloed approach to IT security increases business risk

It is said that the technology at the heart of IT changes at a bewildering[...]

Private Cloud and IT Service Delivery

The impacts on budgets, reporting and IT delivery models. When economic times are hard there[...]

Getting private cloud to play nicely

By Dale Vile We were surprised at the strength of positive sentiment and relative lack[...]

Playing the SLA long game

By Dale Vile When IT is your day job it’s easy to lose sight of[...]

From virtualisation to private cloud

Lots of people are talking about private cloud as the next natural step from virtualisation.[...]

Private Cloud Forecast – Sunny or Stormy times ahead for CIOs?

Businesses are still operating under enormous economic pressure and, as would be expected, this continues[...]

Analyst Headlines: Accelerating Cloud Adoption

Andrew Buss explains how enterprise drivers and aspirations will shape cloud adoption and the opportunity[...]

Behind the Headlines: Accelerating Cloud Adoption