Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation

The Consumerisation of IT – exposing a few myths

Ignoring key trends could be harmful to corporate health Is it really true that organisations[...]

Stop fighting fires and start managing change

It’s treating the root cause of rigidity that really matters For most of the past[...]

Turning virtualisation into advantage

Freedom to move, not bogging things down The road to hell, they say, is paved[...]

Banging your head against the invisible wall

Has virtualisation really moved the game forward? OK, so you’ve virtualised a bunch of servers[...]

Martha Bennett and Kieran Hines at Intellect

In this podcast interview, Martha Bennett shares her thoughts on some of the key challenges[...]

Virtualisation roadblocks: From sprawl to stall

A prompt to move to the next level of management? The early days of x86[...]

IT financing is not a deal saver

But it is a great sales tool if introduced early enough (This article was originally[...]

Is Big Data just Big Hype?

If the deluge of headlines and vendor marketing materials is anything to go by, ‘big[...]

SaaS based Email and Office Productivity

Over the course of many months there has been considerable coverage of ‘Cloud’ based office[...]

Understanding desktop virtualisation

Looking after an organisation’s estate of desktop and laptop PCs can be a difficult and[...]

User Virtualization – Moving beyond device-centric computing

When business IT was young and channel partners had plenty of hardware margins to play[...]

Information management: technology investment pays off

Obtaining budget for new technology investments can be a difficult exercise at the best of[...]

Storage Through the Looking Glass

Talk of storage technology makes business people yawn, but the state of the storage infrastructure[...]

The Business of Electronic Data Storage

By Dale Vile, Tony Lock and Martha Bennett Introduction Storage and retrieval of electronic data[...]

Beyond device-centric computing: Breaking barriers to enable productivity

In this webinar, Martha Bennett of Freeform Dynamics and Harry Labana of AppSense discuss the[...]

Rising to the information management challenge

In a world of increasingly devolved decision making, few would disagree that it’s important to[...]

Getting to grips with SMB resilience

It is recognised across almost all companies that disasters or major events can interrupt business[...]

Winners and losers in the information race

The mainstream media generally portrays the financial services industry as being in a total mess,[...]

RIM changes its leadership, but not its course

On January 23rd, 2012, Research in Motion (RIM) announced Thorsten Heins as President and CEO.[...]

The secrets of effective disaster recovery

There’s no magic bullet, but there’s a formula Many IT and business executives groan when[...]

Amazon AWS Direct Connect hits the UK

Last week was extremely busy, so the first I heard of Amazon’s Direct Connect service[...]

Closing the SMB security gap

It’s got the point where the majority of small and medium businesses (SMBs) take the[...]

SaaS based Email and Office Productivity Tools

If you have an old email server in need of an upgrade or have calls[...]

Operating Models in Context

By Dale Vile Change is a fact of life in business, but it’s generally not[...]