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Think security, think CIA – but we’re not talking spies and sleuths The threat of cyber-attack is increasing every year, and only recently have we read about Dixon Carphone’s huge data breach last year. It’s bad for customers and it’s bad for business. According to figures published by the Online Trust Alliance, 2017 was the worst […]

Ismail El Kadiri, Business Planning and Analysis Lead Consultant, Logicalis UK, looks at three areas of business CxOs should consider prioritising after finance, to leverage the benefits of planning analytics and business intelligence (BI). Over the past decade, numerous planning and analytics solutions have surfaced in an effort to catch up with an increasingly complex […]

We’re in the midst of a series of blog posts, dissecting the results of the Logicalis Global CIO study. In this article, Fanni Vig looks at why big data analytics needs senior business sponsorship. There’s a reason why football teams need effective managers, why battalions need commanding officers and businesses need visionary CEOs: People with […]

In this sixth blog of our series drawing on the Logicalis Global CIO study, CEO Mark Rogers revisits the thorny issue of Shadow IT – an issue that is both feared for the cracks it creates in an organisation’s IT estate and tolerated for the shortcut it provides to innovation. Is it time to rebrand Shadow IT as […]

A free gift, a smart 11 year-old and a lightbulb moment have Chris Gabriel asking if the Generation of Things (GoT) is of greater value to the world’s economies than the Internet of Things (IoT). A few weeks back I attended one of our technology partner’s update sessions and, always happy to receive a freebie […]

Chris Gabriel looks at Logicalis UK’s seventh Realtime Generation survey of UK teens.  With smart cities, the IoT and wearables already upon us, it’s the most revealing yet… From way back in 2007 when we found Bebo to be the most popular social site, the Realtime Generation research has charted the rise of Facebook, vlogging […]

In this second of a two part series Mark Rogers examines the real world impact of the shift to ‘Third Platform IT” and the rise of the “Service Defined Enterprise” – what it means for CIOs, IT Departments and the service innovation that will drive growth and competitiveness. The emergence of the Third Platform has […]

Andy Waroma, VP for Business Development, Logicalis Asia, looks at why the region’s IT Managers and CIOs still have a preference for hardware, and so far resist a move towards software and services. I moved to Singapore over fourteen years ago and one of the things that struck me almost immediately when doing business here, […]

Chris Gabriel takes another look at the changing role of the CIO.  Six months after Logicalis research found signs of a fundamental shift, has reality borne out the theory? Late last year, I wrote a piece for this blog entitled Rumours of the CIOs’ demise are wildly exaggerated, and the view I expressed in the […]

Today (6th May 2014) Cisco announced the launch of its Mobile Workspace Solution developed with Citrix to address some of the problems, challenges and benefits that BYOD or mobility offers. Chris Gabriel discusses some of the reasons why a CxO on a mobility transformation journey may do well to cast more than an eye over this […]