Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation

Are tech vendors pulling their weight on fixing fragmented IT?

Many organisations have silo’d data and fragmented IT systems, but

Standardized solution implementation services

Shorten time-to-value, reduce costs and risks, and future-proof your investment

Trust: easy to lose, hard to recover

Here are just a few of the topics that my fellow Freeformers and I have[...]

IT Financial Management Revisited

Time for a smarter and more joined-up approach

Dealing with the growing problem of edge and IoT sprawl

Amidst all the hype regarding the massive growth potential for IoT

The global information access opportunity

Making a business case for investment in modern file data management

Getting real about IT sustainability

From good intentions to tangible results through smart systems selection

Have you made the right platform choices to minimise risk?

Critical systems have to run and run…

Getting the most from IT suppliers

100 CIOs tell us their frustrations, needs and wants

The IT Transformation Imperative

Driving meaningful change to make tangible difference

To maximise potential, mainframers must reach out and engage

The team here has always had immense respect for the mainframe community

From multiple clouds to multi-cloud

Time to strengthen your cloud operating model

Kubernetes and the open-source maintainer question

While much of October's KubeCon-CloudNativeCon North America

S/4HANA without compromise

A modern ERP architecture needs a powerful and future-proof platform

VMware’s breadth and depth impresses, but is it still a safe bet?

At the recent VMware Explore conference in Barcelona

Supporting the needs of highly unpredictable workloads

It’s all about flexibility, scalability and cost effectiveness

The modern SD-WAN advantage

Even if you run an SD-WAN today, it’s time to check what’s new

Manufacturers in a world of constant change

Why ERP modernization could yield the ESG and Industry 4.0 synergies that you need

Like a teenager, Kubernetes looks almost grown-up, yet still a bit awkward and confused

Platform: that’s the key word that sprung to mind after attending Kubecon

‘Traditional’ is not a dirty word

Sometimes ‘new’ and ‘disruptive’ really doesn’t make sense

Linux and sustainability

The emerging role of modern, high-scale consolidation platforms

The Post-Pandemic CIO

Views on leadership, communication and engagement