The New Face Of IT Service Management: Aligning Business, Development And Operations Teams For Strategic Advantage
White Papers Research by Macehiter Ward-Dutton shows that a lack of trust in IT's ability to deliver business value is one of the biggest hurdles that enterprises face in bringing IT and business closer together. Download this Macehiter Ward-Dutton paper to...
[May 31, 2008, 10:35]
Longhorn And The Linux Long-game
News While the majority of defections to Linux are currently taking place at the expense of Unix because migration is easier and the two can be looked after using similar management techniques, "this will change over time and Linux will seriously begin...
[March 9, 2005, 11:20]
TruCluster For HP-UX Canned
News Neil Macehiter, a research director at Ovum, said HP has made a practical decision as Veritas already works on HP-UX. It seems to me like a pragmatic move from HP," said Macehiter. But Alpha customers are likely to be unhappy with HP's decision as...
[December 2, 2004, 14:00]
Will Longhorn Be Worth The Pain?
News But Macehiter believes that Microsoft's back-porting strategy, while useful to encourage crucial developer buy-in, is also a "double-edged sword". Neil Macehiter, a partner at MWD Advisors, believes that the move reflects the importance that...
[March 18, 2005, 16:25]
Fireworks Predicted Over MS/Vodafone Web Services Deal
News Many will see this as an attempt, motivated by self-interest, to hijack existing initiatives from the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and The Parlay Group, both of which already have widespread industry support," warned Neil Macehiter, research...
[October 14, 2003, 15:40]
Veritas Adds File System To Oracle Clusters
News Neil Macehiter, research director at Ovum, says that although raw partitions generally improve the performance of a database -- because it doesn't have to deal with the overhead of a file structure -- managing the system is far more difficult.
[August 14, 2003, 17:44]
Europeans Turn To Web Services
News Neil Macehiter, senior consultant at Ovum, added: "European organisations clearly recognize the potential of Web services to address integration challenges both inside and outside of corporate boundaries.
[October 7, 2002, 15:43]
Day-to-day IT Strategy Remains Top Priority
News John Collins, of consultants Macehiter Ward-Dutton, who advised on the survey, said attitudes were changing within IT and that while companies were increasingly risk-averse, their attitudes to risk were also changing.
[November 24, 2006, 15:20]
NEC May Struggle To Sell PC Arm
News Jon Collins, principle analyst with Macehiter Ward-Dutton, agreed that "big companies would have little to gain" from buying Packard Bell, as the profit margins would be minimal, and competition fierce.
[June 22, 2006, 17:05]
