Steve Hughes

Colt’s Tech Deficit report points to an urgent need for an IT transformation in order for enterprise organisations across Europe to cope with challenges and exploit opportunities in the rapidly changing digital economy. IT decision makers will recognise much of the worrying findings in the report, particularly, the growing evidence that a substantial gap has developed [...] Read more

You know a problem is real when it effects businesses of all sizes, in all locations and requires a similar response from everyone. The new digital economy has uncovered a ‘tech deficit’ which fits neatly into these categories. The compelling statistics in a new report make for interesting, if uncomfortable reading for many CIOs and IT [...] Read more

On 17 June, I will be speaking at a gathering of industry professionals at the annual Cloud World Forum in London. CWF is one of industry’s premier events gathering together leading vendors and IT decision makers from across EMEA. It always promises a healthy round of debate on cloud/virtualisation trends, and how the market is likely [...] Read more

On April 8th the deadline passed for Microsoft support of Windows XP. We have all known about this for some time, but for those businesses that have been putting off migrating away from the venerable operating system, this does provide an opportunity to consider their overall plans for the future of desktops and desktop management.  Especially [...] Read more

We will look back on 2014 as the tipping point for BYOD (Bring your own device). Both employees and business leaders now see its value, with almost half of companies having a BYOD policy in place, and 36% developing one. BYOD isn’t just about allowing employees to use the latest smart device, productivity is one of [...] Read more