Michael Warrilow
Director
Hydrasight
Mr Warrilow is a global authority on enterprise management. During the last 15 years he has worked as practitioner, vendor and industry analyst for Woolworths, IBM and META Group respectively. Throughout his career Michael has been in constant demand by leading commercial and government organisations, both in Australia and globally.
Michael's core research focus is currently the intersection of technology governance, portfolio management, process improvement, and enterprise management (particularly application management).
Michael's expertise has helped his clients to:
- Implement programs for excellence in IT operations through improved infrastructure and application management (including automation)
- Improve IT service management and delivery (including ITIL plus process and quality improvement)
- Develop strategies for multi-supplier sourcing (i.e., outtasking and/or selective sourcing)
- Reduce technology risk and improve IT governance (including information security and privacy)
Michael has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science along with a Graduate Certificate in Writing and a Certificate in Management. He is also a Microsoft Certified Professional.
Contributions
There are a total of 27 articles written by Michael Warrilow, the listing has been split over 2 pages:
- 29/07/09 - VMware is the new Microsoft (and why virtualisation is neither free nor cheap)
- 26/01/09 - IT service (and performance) management 2009 - 2015
- 12/12/08 - Adoption of managed security is in the clouds
- 10/11/08 - IT management software wars: Episode 3 - revenge of the 'onion'
- 17/10/08 - IT performance beyond project and portfolio management
- 25/09/08 - Current state of Information Leakage Prevention in Australia / New Zealand
- 06/08/08 - The impact of software vendor mergers and acquisitions
- 28/03/08 - The inevitability of heterogeneous hypervisor management
- 07/03/08 - Microsoft service desk delayed until 2010
- 07/11/07 - IBM's risky business (on security and governance)
- 12/10/07 - Best (and common) practice with external ITSM consulting in Asia Pacific
- 13/09/07 - Memo to ITSM projects: Don't forget the customer
- 16/08/07 - Citrix and the art of Xen(Source)
- 09/08/07 - The greening of AsiaPac IT
- 29/06/07 - HP Software's service desk dilemma in Asia Pacific
- 10/05/07 - ITIL: It'll get fixed in the next version
- 21/03/07 - Defining IT governance (before someone does it for you)
- 16/03/07 - Application management remains a misnomer
- 14/02/07 - Managing project management in Asia Pacific: Taking action
- 07/02/07 - Managing project management in Asia Pacific: The skills shortage