Taming complexity in the cloud

Kylie certainly loves public speaking! Last month she had a thought provoking conversation with the team at Cloudsoft on their regular podcast ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Brain’ on the complex reality of Cloud, and on how organisations can use new tactics like FinOps, alongside more traditional asset management strategies, to get disparate technologies singing in harmony.…

Posted by Kylie Fowler on 19 September 2021 in Uncategorised

DIGIT Cloud First IT Conference 2021

Cloud First 2021 is an online digital conference presented by DIGIT, the largest independent technical community in Scotland. Kylie did a presentation and Q&A session on managing cloud services through their lifecycle. 2020 witnessed an accelerated shift to Cloud-based services, driven by lockdown restrictions and a rapid requirement to support large-scale remote working…

Posted by Kylie Fowler on 28 June 2021 in News

Target operating model via the medium of cake!

Our principal consultant, Kylie Fowler, is a regular on the popular ITAM Review Radio Show, and this month the team were discussing target operating models (TOM), which is a topic close to our hearts! If you want to discover why you might liken a TOM to a Battenberg cake, then…

Posted by Kylie Fowler on 01 June 2020 in News

ITAM Professional of the year award

Well, what a surprise! I was lured to Dublin to present at the ITAMOrg Conference, and won a prize! It was lovely to be awarded the ITAM Professional of the Year award, and I’m looking forward to handing over the accolade at next year’s conference. You can read the transcript…

Posted by Kylie Fowler on 30 May 2019 in News

WB-40 podcast – The Pelican Brief

Here at ITAM Intelligence, we love the WB-40 podcast

Posted by Kylie Fowler on 12 February 2019 in News

DIGIT IT conference

I made a flying visit to Edinburgh the other week to present at the Digit IT leaders conference. The presentation was on a familiar theme – the importance of managing cloud costs! It’s my current hobby horse, but at least there were plenty of people nodding away in the audience,…

Posted by Kylie Fowler on 30 June 2018 in News

Vendor Negotiations in A Cloudy World

Not only is Cloud and ‘As-a-Service’ a fundamental technology change, it’s also a fundamental change to the way IT Services are financed and paid for. At the recent ITAM Review Conference in London on the 13th and 14th June at The Kia Oval in South London I discussed the impact…

Posted by Kylie Fowler on 29 June 2017 in News

Who is SAM?

Claire Agutter of ITSM Zone is the host of the ITSM Crowd video blog on uTube. This month, she tackled the topic of SAM with myself, Rory Canavan, Barry Pilling and Janet Coetzee, who sports an unusual mid-Atlantic accent – half way between South Africa and New Zealand! We discussed what SAM…

Posted by Kylie Fowler on 25 February 2017 in News

Licensing in the Cloud Podcast

Chris Weston and Matt Ballantine invited me to be interviewed for their WB-40 podcast on Licensing in the Cloud. You can listen to the full podcast here. We discussed loads of stuff, but the thing that stood out for me is that the shift to cloud is transformational not just…

Posted by Kylie Fowler on 02 February 2017 in News

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