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[...]