Chris Gabriel looks at the changing role of the CIO and argues that, far from becoming irrelevant in a new ‘agile business’ reality, the CIO will be more important than ever – driving a services-led...
Is it time for CXOs to ‘get real’?
Logicalis recently launched the results of the 2013 Realtime Generation Survey (RTG), which looks at the digital footprint of today’s 13-17 year olds and captures their opinions on the digital future...
Tags digital adventurer, Business Intelligence, IT trends, digital natives, IT Trends, IT Staffing, Business Strategy
It’s time to get inspired by IT (again)
Chris Gabriel argues that IT is primed to take on a unique role at the strategic heart of organisations – but must once again be driven by inspiration – by remembering to focus not just on what...
Is your data centre fit for the future?
Bob Mobach, Practice Director, Data Center Solutions, Logicalis US argues today’s data centres are struggling to keep up with the sheer pace of change in enterprise technology – and that a new, more...
Tags DCaaS, Strategy, Data Centre, Data Centre as a Service, Data Centre Services, Business Strategy
The Virtualisation Journey. Part 2 – Brave new world
In this second of a two part series, Alex Watson-Jackson points out how a far-sighted virtualisation strategy can push the benefits well beyond consolidation and cost saving, to enable a brave new...
Tags virtualisation, Data Centre, Data Centre Services, Business Strategy
Cloud Contracts and Data Sovereignty
In a recent press release from Gartner, ambiguous contract language and protection relating to security was highlighted as concern to buyers of commercial cloud services, particularly software as a...
Tags Data Protection and Privacy, Cloud Computing, Business Strategy
ITSM. Making the whole greater than the sum of its parts
Eugene Wolf, MD of Logicalis SMC in The Netherlands, looks at the benefits associated with taking a holistic approach to ITSM, pointing out that a really effective implementation is about more than...
If you want BYOD to work, do the maths
Chris Gabriel takes a look behind the hype to assess the economics of BYOD and asks, "Is everyone doing it just as well as Cisco?”
Tags BYOD, Business Strategy
Are the heavy weight economies coming to the IPv6 party?
Chris Gabriel, CTO at Logicalis Group looks at the world's major economies' progress towards IPv6 readiness and what it all means...
Tags IPv6, Strategy, Business Strategy
If you are a fractional CIO, storage is probably your Achilles heel, for now...
Alex Watson-Jackson looks at how traditional, siloed enterprise storage infrastructure holds back innovation in IT service delivery, creates complexity cost and hampers decision making - to ask "If...
Tags converged storage, converged infrastructure, Big Data, Data Centre Services, Business Strategy