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Data protection and identity management – are you sure you’re safe?

Freeform Dynamics 6 January 2010 No Comments

Data protection is an essential area for businesses, and an increasingly critical one to deal with, as volumes and complexity of data grow, along with the volume and complexity of…

Server Virtualisation for Hard-Nosed People

Freeform Dynamics 9 December 2009 No Comments

This webcast reveals the experiences of organisations who have extensive practice of x86 server virtualisation. How can IT run business critical / mainstream applications when they are ready to move…

Ready for VoIP?

Freeform Dynamics 9 December 2009 No Comments

By Josie Sephton It seems at last that business-grade VoIP is making its mark in the business world and becoming more mainstream, with a fairly positive migration compared to a…

Business Productivity An Alternative View

Freeform Dynamics 3 December 2009 No Comments

The Register’s Tim Phillips, Jon Collins and IBM’s Gary Gomersall give the lowdown on alternative ways to tackle business productivity. They give straight-talking advice and expert answers on a number…

Evolution of x86 Server Estates

Freeform Dynamics 30 November 2009 No Comments

by Dale Vile and Jon Collins Justifying the purchase of x86 servers to run new applications has never appeared a real issue for most organisations. Indeed, as costs have come…

Unified networking: Reality or a marketing myth?

Freeform Dynamics 25 November 2009 No Comments

We all know that the IT Infrastructure has a life of its own. In the vast majority of organisations the infrastructure evolves over time rather than being designed as a…

Is losing a mobile device really such a big deal?

Freeform Dynamics 25 November 2009 No Comments

These days, it’s no surprise to anybody that staff mobility – everything from home working to being able to pick up email when out and about – brings with it…

Moving to a new app? Mind the data trap

Freeform Dynamics 21 November 2009 No Comments

If you’re anything like me, you’re always on the lookout for software that will improve your life in some way. It might help you communicate more effectively and more widely…

Social wariness is wise for business

Freeform Dynamics 20 November 2009 No Comments

A colleague pulled me up with a start the other day when I was talking about the value of social software to organisations. My assertion was that, since nothing gets…

Videoconferencing comes of age for CIOs

Freeform Dynamics 20 November 2009 No Comments

By Josie Sephton The announcement a few weeks back on Cisco acquiring Tandberg seems to have raised the profile of videoconferencing, with other major players such as Polycom standing to…

Threat predictions for 2010

Freeform Dynamics 19 November 2009 No Comments

Jon Collins and Paul Wood of MessageLabs give their predictions for the coming year on the ever evolving security threat landscape. This thirty minute conversation with accompanying slide deck sees…

Does business social networking really need IT?

Freeform Dynamics 9 November 2009 No Comments

Are you wrestling with the idea of bringing social networking (choose your own preferred term) into your organisation? Whether a grass roots movement or an edict from the top, at…

Windows 7 kills two thirds of active Vista initiatives

Freeform Dynamics 9 November 2009 No Comments

We recently ran a survey asking respondents (over 1,100 IT pros) about their thoughts and plans on the topic of desktop modernisation. Along the way, we took the opportunity to…

How bad are the bad guys?

Freeform Dynamics 6 November 2009 No Comments

By Jon Collins The Internet has come a long way since its rudimentary beginnings as a government and academic network. At its heart it is fundamentally simple – allowing packets…

Are you mulling new ways of refreshing desktop and laptop estates?

Freeform Dynamics 30 October 2009 No Comments

In a recent poll we asked if people were rethinking their desktop strategies, and what options they were considering. So what is really happening – is anyone actually considering refreshing…

Breaking out of the virtualisation pilot

Freeform Dynamics 30 October 2009 No Comments

By Jon Collins The IT industry is full of bad habits, none greater than treating new technology areas as faits accomplis – which of course makes things a tad complicated…

What are you doing about refreshing the PC estate?

Freeform Dynamics 26 October 2009 No Comments

We know from respondents that the age of desktop estates vary greatly, not just between different organisations, but in many cases also inside them. We have also uncovered evidence (in…

Reg readers take mobile makers to task

Freeform Dynamics 26 October 2009 No Comments

When Freeform Dynamics asked you for your opinion of your mobile phone, you didn’t hesitate to give it to us. Both barrels, in some cases. We asked you a bunch…

Remote IT support ’is harder’

Freeform Dynamics 23 October 2009 No Comments

Perish the thought that we at Freeform Towers should try to over-simplify things, but from the whopping 465 of you who responded to this week’s Reg survey, it is clear…

Microsoft is learning to share – but not soon enough?

Freeform Dynamics 22 October 2009 No Comments

Jive, an enterprise-focused social software company, has a catchy tagline: it says it’s going to “liberate SharePoint content”. Anyone who uses Microsoft SharePoint can imagine what this means: no more…

Securing the remote estate – Lock ‘em down or set ‘em free?

Freeform Dynamics 21 October 2009 No Comments

One of the challenges of managing a remote desktop estate is security. It’s not a new problem, but it has been raised higher in the collective consciousness in the last…

What do Scotland, Australia and Africa have in common?

Freeform Dynamics 19 October 2009 No Comments

Unified Communications (UC) is a pretty hot topic with analysts and vendors alike. Yet despite a push back from the market on the vagaries of the proposition and questions around…

When PCs went mobile – Tears of joy or sorrow?

Freeform Dynamics 19 October 2009 No Comments

Do you remember the first time you saw a laptop? Shiny bright LED screen, pixels individually visible, about the size of a breeze block. Portability probably didn’t concern the IT…

Today’s users don’t expect things to fail

Freeform Dynamics 16 October 2009 No Comments

A recent mini-poll reveals, as perhaps expected, that the primary source of information used to measure desktop support issues are the number of support calls hitting the help desk and…