Category Archives: IT Trends

Alasdair Ford, Chief Technologist for Collaboration at Logicalis UK, considers the lessons businesses can learn from Pokémon Go. Catch ’em if you can It’s impossible to avoid the worldwide buzz generated by Pokémon Go, although interest has waned a little from 45m active users in the first month down to a mere 30m today.  My recent […]

Greg Daley, Solutions Architect at Logicalis Australia, identifies five risks common to significant technology transformations, and are applicable across software, infrastructure, and applications. IT transformation projects are carried out to enhance the technical and business environment to an agreed level. These IT-enabled organisation changes come in many forms. Some projects involve low risk, incremental changes […]

Brett Anderson, Senior Director of  HPE Solutions for Logicalis US, looks at the latest views on flash storage and explains that not everything is what it seems; helping CIOs to avoid being dazzled by the sales literature and becoming victims of trying out new tech, rather than victors. The need for speed Ask any IT pro […]

With digital now shorthand for many aspects of what is becoming a mainstream movement across the spectrum of industry and the public sector, business is changing fast. The world of business, in particular, is resolving into two camps: Those with digital technology in their DNA and those threatened by digital competitors. Those with ‘digital DNA’ […]

In this post, we examine what is meant by a digital organisation. What are their common features and how does an ‘analogue’ organisation ‘go digital’? Most organisations are undergoing some form of digital transformation. That’s to be expected – 2016 is undoubtedly the dawn of the first ‘digital decade’. Given its incredible transformative potential, it’s no […]

Mark Rogers, Logicalis Group’s CEO, highlights the skills required for CIOs to move in to the top job in their organisations. Unless you work for a high tech start up, the chances are your CEO rose to power through finance, or sales and marketing. The people doing the deals, whether it’s bringing in sales or […]

Joanne Nelson, VP International Marketing at Logicalis, considers how Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg’s vision for the future of the business could affect the wider business community in the years to come. Last week, at the company’s annual F8 developer event in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg shared his vision for the future. If some of his […]

In the third in a series of three posts, James Tay, CEO Logicalis Asia, looks at the second transformation that IT departments must undertake if they are to acquire an accelerated capacity to respond to business need – a cultural transformation. In the first post in this series, I explained first how the consumerisation of […]

In the first of a series of three posts James Tay, CEO, Logicalis Asia, explains why a growing impatience for transformational IT services in the enterprise is forging a new relationship between IT and business. Until now, enterprise IT services have been delivered at their own speed – specifically, at the rate at which the […]

Fred Kouwenberg, Sales Director at Logicalis SMC, looks at the distinction between the output of our activities and the outcome, arguing that customers are not solely focused on delivering projects on time and within budget. The bigger picture is far more important. Much of what we do in business, and particularly IT, is focussed on […]