Blogs

This is a collection of my thoughts on issues facing the enterprise and new technology. As Head of Marketing for Central North & East Europe for Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, I am at the cutting edge of new developments and concepts and I will be giving my unique insights on topical issues twice a month. I am particularly interested in how organisations can move away from single-vendor tie-ins to achieve greater business benefits. I also have strong views on the implications of cloud computing on the enterprise. Hopefully, my blog will interest readers and stimulate further discussion via the comments section at the bottom of each piece.

Stephen Chapman delivers tried-and-true Search Engine Optimization techniques while laying to rest myths and bad practices.

Service technology -- from SOA to cloud to IT service management -- promises many "-ilities": greater agility, flexibility, and reusability. Joe McKendrick explores the challenges and opportunities with service orientation, and how to capitalize on these emerging computing philosophies.

From bits-and-bytes to brick-and-mortar: how tech impacts a small business.

Long-time small-business advocate Heather Clancy translates the latest SMB trends -- from e-commerce technologies to cost-effective applications, hardware, collaboration tools and cloud services that improve SMB efficiency.

It seems everyone in business has a smartphone today to keep connected to the office and enjoy their time away from the office. Matthew Miller provides you with news, commentary and in-depth reviews of the latest in mobile phones sporting iOS, Android, Wi

In the best-informed blog on software-as-a-service and on-demand business applications, Phil Wainewright cuts through the vendor spin, analyzes the trends to watch and adds his thought-provoking insights.

Many writers explore just one tech sector. Brian looks at the entire tech ecosystem to better understand the often conflicted relationships between software vendors, integrators, outsourcers and more.