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[...]