Category Archives: Software & Application Delivery
Private Cloud in Context
To make sense of private cloud, you need unravel it from the broader cloud computing[...]
Fast Forward to Big Data
Does ’cloud’ have a roll in providing customers with access to new data sources to[...]
The Business of Electronic Data Storage
By Dale Vile, Tony Lock and Martha Bennett Introduction Storage and retrieval of electronic data[...]
CA ERwin – Getting reacquainted with an old friend
Back in the deep dark past, when I designed and optimised relational databases for a[...]
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[...]
Unlock the business value of your information
Stakeholders are increasingly looking to get information ’on demand’ to regulatory bodies; seeking more complex[...]
IT is the least of the problems – but can it improve business change?
A lot of time and column inches have been spent over the years looking at[...]
Challenging the big change agenda
Marketing people and management consultants love the words ‘transformation’ and ‘innovation’. As you listen to[...]
Defining the Business Change Agenda
Transformation and innovation are often worthy objectives for change initiatives, but business people tell us[...]
Will SaaS make you more efficient?
SaaS might give you more availability, it might cut your capital costs, and it might[...]
Software Licensing and Subscription
By Tony Lock KEY FINDINGS Few organisations know what software they are using The vast[...]
Agile Development – The reality behind the philosophy
Business people often complain that IT projects take too long and deliver results that fall[...]
Cloud today, tomorrow, not yet
Given all the hype and conjecture recently, we could be forgiven for thinking that we[...]
Cloud Computing Checkpoint
By Dale Vile KEY POINTS Views of cloud computing are wide, varied and often contradictory[...]
Licensing in the virtual age
By Andrew Buss Having sat through countless vendor cloud pitches, there seems to be an[...]
Cloud Service Categories
There are many ways to classify cloud service offerings. The most basic is to relate[...]
Decision criteria for open source and proprietary software
The selection of operating systems was once one of the major decisions IT managers had[...]
PaaS potential and practicality: This is a hype-free zone
One of the advantages of using Platform as a Service (PaaS) to develop and deploy[...]
Cloud computing in context
Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – BCS Meeting, Leeds, July 2010 Presenter(s) –[...]
BPM Beyond Automation
BPM has an application beyond highly structured process automation. Dale Vile talks with The Register’s[...]
Secure your departmental apps
Throughout a workshop on The Register, we’ve been looking at resiliency and security for hosted[...]
Lithium helped the penny to drop
A more tangible take on social CRM While I go about my business as an[...]
Applied Cloud Computing
By Dale Vile and Tony Lock Introduction The term ‘cloud computing’ is one of the[...]