Many cloud service providers and strategy-boutiques give the impression that a multi-cloud approach is a simple way for an enterprise to spread risk. As is often the case, we find that in reality, it’s more complicated.

A good configuration management database is a foundational building block for high-quality service management. With many organisations struggling to implement them successfully we ask if there is a different way to crack the CMDB challenge.

Sounding like a poorly-conceived 1980s movie, ransomware is the latest scourge to hit businesses and their IT. It can have a devastating effect on companies and, in some cases, shutter them completely, so what steps can you take to protect yourself?

In the final part of his series, Richard draws conclusions on how to get the best value from low code-platforms, how to avoid some common pitfalls, and introduces the Refractis low-code directory.

In the third part of this series we look at developing applications using low code and no code solutions and ask whether they can accelerate the work of traditional development teams.

In the second part of this series we look at low code data platforms and their ability to supplant spreadsheets as the power user’s productivity tool of choice.

Low code platforms promise to bring technology closer to the business, removing the need for costly development projects and empowering end-users. But can low code really deliver on these ambitions?

Moving legacy, data heavy applications to the cloud can cause performance issues and lead to user frustration. Can Virtual Desktop Infrastructure provide a solution by relocating user-compute closer to application data?

Over the course of little more than two-decades VMware moved from cool tech start-up to corporate mainstream, but what place does it have in a world dominated by cloud?

As Refractis celebrates its first birthday, we look back over the last 12 months and pick out some of the key trends that have the potential to challenge the way that IT is delivered.

Staying agile is key to remaining competitive. Although, learning lessons from previous mistakes and triumphs can improve performance, it can sometimes lead to calcification of process, thus hampering agility. An operating model tune-up offers an alternative approach.

With the full impact of a post-Covid economic chill looming, many corporates are looking to optimise costs through rationalisation and cloud migration programmes. But in our experience, many companies are not measuring all aspects of on-premise IT spend, and as the old adage goes, you can't manage what you don’t measure.