For a while now, I have maintained two mobile phones—one for business use and one for personal use—and in terms of requirements, I need different things in each context. There are four 'must haves' for my business device—good...

It's encouraging that many of the conversations we are having at the moment in relation to IT and sustainability are moving beyond power management in the data centre. It is not that optimising the use of central IT isn't important, but it really...

Over the past couple of months, I have had in-depth conversations with five CIOs that have made a significant commitment to Windows Vista. One of the main issues I explored with each of them was the foundation upon which the business case for...

There appears to be a revival of interest in Business Intelligence (BI) among IT vendors at the moment. Some pretty big guns, the likes of Oracle, IBM, SAP and Microsoft, are trying to position themselves more aggressively in this space following...

Ever had one of those conversations where you debate something for a while then it dawns on you that each party has been talking about something different? It has happened to me quite a few times recently. One example was in relation to...

Don't you just hate it when another woolly ambiguous term is forced upon us? When I was approached by yet another journalist the other day asking me my thoughts on the impact of cloud computing, I simply sighed and told them it is a bit like Web...

I was interested to read about Angela's experience trying to secure a briefing from Oracle on its collaboration related offerings and activities. As Angela pointed out, the 'Big O' was the only large vendor that 'should' have a story in this...

At the risk of offending all those who love to talk for hours about cores, caches and clock speeds, I have to say that I personally find discussions about the innards of silicon chips and how they are wired together intensely boring. In fact, I've...

I blogged a while back on how a Vista upgrade effectively rendered my old desktop machine useless for business purposes (see Retiring Leonardo from last year). I got a lot of feedback at that time as many people out there were obviously trying to...

An interesting finding emerged from one of our recent studies into IT Service Management (ITSM). It concerns a cause and effect that is pretty obvious once it is highlighted. Put simply, IT departments operate much more smoothly and efficiently if...