By Josie Sephton, Dale Vile & Tony Lock KEY FINDINGS The desktop environment is ready for change Desktop modernisation plans have been on hold for many organisations as a result…
Some back to front thinking in evidence? One of the most frequent concerns about cloud is security. Andy Buss and I were discussing this the other day as part of…
Are you getting the most out of yours? Someone recently asked me why mainframes are not utilised more broadly in large organisations that have them as part of their IT…
Exploding this and other myths You’ve heard the rhetoric: Cloud computing changes everything. The days of the enterprise data centre and the small business computer room are numbered. At some…
Most major players in the IT industry have attempted to take ownership of the cloud computing agenda over the past couple of years. With each one defining cloud in a…
A more tangible take on social CRM While I go about my business as an industry analyst, I sometimes come across problems and solutions highlighted by the vendor community that…
By Dale Vile and Tony Lock Introduction The term ‘cloud computing’ is one of the most widely used in the IT industry today. To some, it means revolution and a…
What’s your perfect device? Are you a BlackBerry, iPhone or Android smartphone fan? Are you wedded to your MacBook or Windows notebook? Do you see the iPad and the myriad…
Have you ever wondered what we will be left with once the marketing people get bored with the term ’cloud computing’ and move on? It is, after all, inconceivable that…
The media, social media, analyst and marketing domains sometimes act like an echo chamber. The same things are heard over and over again on high-profile topics as messages from a…
By Dale Vile One of the most common complaints heard from business people about the way IT serves their needs is everything always seems to take too long and cost…
By Dale Vile Have you ever wondered what we will be left with once the marketing people get bored with the term ‘cloud computing’ and move on? It is, after…
By Dale Vile and Jon Collins INTRODUCTION The emergence of new regulation always presents a dilemma, particularly when considered against the background of other, often-conflicting priorities for resources and investment.…
Salesforce.com to me is a bit like the boy who cried ‘Wolf!”. Every press release it issues contains claims of industry revolution, even if all that’s being announced is some…
The analyst team here at Freeform Dynamics frequently gets asked for comment by journalists. This usually takes place over the phone, but occasionally a request comes in over email. The…
By Jon Collins and Dale Vile A number of trends are having an impact on the supply, deployment and operation of corporate IT facilities. Currently, the impact is being felt…
For years, when we asked Reg readers what worried them about mobile, “security” was top of the list. Now business mobility has become a victim of its own success in…
Responsible employer or miserly git? Communications technology makes it easy to mix up personal and business calls. If you want to keep track of what you pay for, and minimise…
By Dale Vile and Jon Collins ‘Interoperability’ is a widely used word in IT industry circles, but it can mean different things depending on the context in which it is…
Nice sound bite, but does the spirit make sense? On a few occasions recently I have heard presenters on stage remind their audience of the fact that the ’I’ in…
No one disputes the fact that there’s a lot of data kicking around in most businesses. Neither are there arguments about how hard it is to find relevant information when…
For as long as I have been in IT, the ‘right’ way to drive things has been towards openness and interoperability. Indeed over the past couple of decades we have…
By Dale Vile The idea of utility computing has been around for a long time, but until relatively recently the ‘pay as you go’ approach to consuming IT infrastructure services…
