Blogs

By Oliver Presland, Vice President - Global Product Management

A summary of November’s CIF Executive Members Event

By Alex Hilton, CEO Cloud Industry Forum

By Simon Aldous, Head of Channels, EMEA, Dropbox

For those companies yet to embark on a digital transformation journey, the challenges are clear, stand still and fall behind, or move too fast and risk spinning out of control.  So how do you find the right balance? 

We spoke to CIOs, CTOs and IT decision makers to find out what digital transformation strategies they’ve implemented, and the advice/top tips they have for other businesses looking to do the same.  

Whether it’s convincing the board to back you financially, understanding the needs of your workforce, getting buy-in for your next IT investment, or encouraging user adoption for new tools you can guarantee someone else has faced it before. Get a quick heads-up from those who have been there! 

By Simon Ratcliffe, Principal Consultant Advisory, Ensono

By Bharat Mistry, Principal Security Strategist, Trend Micro

By Tony Singleton OBE - Strategic Advisor at Advice Cloud

By Alex Hilton, CEO Cloud Industry Forum

In the climate of the perpetual technology revolution it is very hard for businesses to make the right technology decisions and one key component of this is the choice of supplier.  

The UK government’s Digital Marketplace offers many SMEs their first chance to supply IT services.   As of July 2017, the total spend through the Digital Marketplace exceeded £2.6 billion.  Of this spend, 45% was through small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).   At the other end, Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of media giant WPP recently talked about the disruptive nature of the digital technology market as being both threat and opportunity.  With modern technology paradigms coming at us from every angle the landscape has become more complex than ever.

By Alex Wilmot, Cloud Services Director, Daisy Group

Much is written about the bottom line cost benefits of cloud adoption, certainly in terms of capex avoidance, or when an organisation is due a tech refresh of ageing, unsupported infrastructure. These are natural decision points to embrace the introduction of hosted or public cloud services, to augment or gradually replace existing systems.

By Richard Sykes, Chair Cloud Industry Forum

By: Sean McAvan, NaviSite

The Cloud Industry Forum recently published its annual whitepaper, 'Cloud: Driving Business Transformation'. It's based on a survey of 250 senior IT and business decision makers in UK enterprises of all sizes, from five employees to public sector organisations and large multinationals. As always, it’s intriguing to see the bigger picture for digital transformation across UK businesses, and how that matches against our experience with customers at Navisite.