Paul Hollingsworth

Data migration has rapidly risen from distant acquaintance to the CIO's very best friend. In this article, Celona Technology's Paul Hollingsworth explains why data migration is the new hot topic of 2008 and examines what can be done to ensure migrations are delivered on time, to budget and aligned to business need. Data migration is almost universally dreaded by IT professionals undertaking complex, application-level consolidation or renewal projects. A recent survey Celona conducted amongst telecoms IT professionals showed that 93% of them were fearful of application-level migration. This might seem a surprisingly high number, but unfortunately there are sound reasons for this level of unease. According to Bloor Research , over 80% of data migration projects are not d... (more)

How To Re-align Your IT to Business

Analysts tell us that IT innovation is high on the CIO's agenda. But in the next breath they  tell us that IT is increasingly being asked to do more with less. What's a CIO to do? If you want to re-align your IT to business need you have two main choices: tactically managing the issue (for example, by extending systems or by partial replacement of infrastructure) or strategically redesig... (more)