Category Archives: Service Defined Enterprise

Logicalis is currently examining the shift from technology-focused to services-led IT through its third Global Survey ‘CIO Pressures and Priorities’. Joanne Nelson, VP of International Market for Logicalis Group identifies eight ways a CIO can transform the IT department. Consumerisation of technology means it is available to everybody, not just specialists. Cloud technology has shifted […]

Chris Gabriel, CTO at Logicalis UK, assesses the extent to which CIOs’ medium term focus on software defined technologies (SDx) and desire to transform IT departments into internal service providers is changing the market for IT skills. In a recent post about SDx adoption, my colleague Eugene Wolf discussed CIOs’ somewhat accelerated SDx adoption plans and, […]

Chris Gabriel, CTO Logicalis UK, looks at the implications for CIOs and IT departments of new research findings – which suggest shadow IT is now very much in the mainstream of IT purchase decision-making. It might be time to come up with a new moniker for ‘Shadow IT’.  The phenomenon of line of business executives […]

Chris Gabriel, CTO at Logicalis UK looks at the challenge facing IT departments as they strive to establish user-friendly service portfolios– and asks what they can learn from online retailers and marketers. In recent months we have been describing the shift from a technology-defined to a service-defined world, where IT departments imitate many of the […]

In this, the first of a two part series, Mark Rogers, President and COO of Logicalis Group, examines the impact of the “Third Platform” on enterprise IT  – what‘s driving it, how it will affect IT procurement and what it means for the shape of businesses in the future.  What changes need to be made […]

In a recent post entitled SDN. A fad, like 3D-TV? Only in technology defined enterprises, I described the impact of software defined networking (and indeed software defined data centres) thus: “SDN, and software defined other things like Data Centre, will be the biggest transformation in how we design, deploy, operate and provision IT services in […]

In the second of a series of blogs about the future of the CIO and the IT function, Chris Gabriel looks at the business issues that are driving change, and how he expects roles to change in step with the emergence of a ‘service defined enterprise’. In the first in this series of blogs, I […]