Our Angles
Straight from the minds of our talented consultants.
How low can you go? A retrospective
Over four years ago now, in mid-2021, I wrote a series of Refractis “Angles” about the increasing adoption of Low Code tools.
I thought it would be interesting to revisit the articles, review my original list, see which of the tools had thrived, and how they had adapted to the changes that AI has brought to the space.
Multi-cloud: A complex strategy with new challenges
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.
The case for VDI in 2021
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?
Virtualisation in the cloud era
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?
You can’t manage what you don’t measure
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.