Keeping IT Grounded
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Do you get fed up with all of the hype, sensationalism and evangelism in the IT industry? If so, this is the blog for you. It's all about exploring tech related stuff in a down to earth manner - i.e. keeping it grounded.
iPhone: First impressions of a BlackBerry user
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...
Dale Vile, Freeform Dynamics | 20th August '08
Desktop power management
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...
Dale Vile, Freeform Dynamics | 15th July '08
Justifying a large scale Vista migration
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...
Dale Vile, Freeform Dynamics | 27th June '08
Business Intelligence and the bolting horse
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...
Dale Vile, Freeform Dynamics | 12th June '08
Talking at cross purposes, or being deliberately misled?
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...
Dale Vile, Freeform Dynamics | 1st June '08
Cloud Computing and Web 2.0
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...
Dale Vile, Freeform Dynamics | 27th April '08
Oracle and Collaboration
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...
Dale Vile, Freeform Dynamics | 14th April '08
Making chipsets interesting
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...
Dale Vile, Freeform Dynamics | 28th March '08
Downgrading from Vista to XP
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...
Dale Vile, Freeform Dynamics | 12th March '08
Are your IT staff adequately trained?
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...
Dale Vile, Freeform Dynamics | 31st January '08