It's easy to criticise the way that publicly funded bodies seem to be good at making very hard work of things like IT, while private sector organisations only make hard work out of them. While spending a day with IBM recently listening to its...

Many vendors that have started off their existence with a strong emphasis on hardware struggle to come to terms with the modern IT world where, for the majority of organisations, subtle differences in hardware architecture and performance are no...

On Citrix's 'Transform your datacentre into a delivery centre': last week Citrix held a series of calls / presentations to announce / re-state its positioning and messaging, with a couple of product listings and roadmaps to show, in words and...

I have spent a lot of time over the last few months thinking about the often haphazard evolution that IT management approaches and technologies have taken over the last few years. And in many respects the use of the term evolution is, for once,...

This week has witnessed more development in the virtualisation field than could comfortably be covered by a large posse of analysts each armed with virtualised light sabres. Indeed, the last 4 days could mark a real coming of age of virtualisation;...