Author Archives: Freeform Dynamics

The dangers of digital smokescreens

A recent global study (1,442 senior respondents) revealed that those reporting particularly good returns from[...]

Building a Curated Digital Hub

In a nutshell In today’s online business environment, with data spread broadly and widely, making[...]

Tackling End User Content Sprawl

In a nutshell The problem of content sprawl has been around since the early days[...]

Combining DCIM and Cloud / CoLo / Managed Services

There is no doubt that requirements for IT to deliver additional capabilities continue to increase.[...]

My life under Estonia’s digital government

There is much government talk about the economic importance of enabling a digital society. Yet[...]

The ’feel-good’ factor is good for business

People who feel good while doing their job tend to work better, contribute more and[...]

How much of your mainstream IT capacity does mobility consume?

Few doubt the increasing popularity of mobile devices, specifically smartphones and tablets. Their numbers grow[...]

Have you planned for a ’friendly’ DDoS attack?

Malicious Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks do not occur often. Nevertheless, for an enterprise[...]

Social media and why businesses need to embrace it

As a teenager just entering the world of business I had to go through a[...]

Mobile security is more than protecting local data

By now we’ve all heard the term Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). This phenomenon is[...]

What are APT’s?

What is an APT? APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat. The goal of this form[...]

Say What?

Recently I attended the IBM Security Systems Analyst Meet the Experts day in Heathrow. With[...]

Organising to choose Enterprise Mobility Management

Mobile Device Management (MDM) is only one part of the broader Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)[...]

Security: the oft-forgotten dimension

Computer security is a hot topic today, and much talked about. There are endless emanations[...]

Are GPUs about to enter IT’s mainstream?

By Charles Brett Until relatively recently most in IT looked upon Graphics Processing Units (GPUs[1])[...]

Should you wait for a wall-to-wall Windows solution?

By Charles Brett Talking to end users and some vendors, especially from the mobile space,[...]

Mobility Management Coming of Age

By Charles Brett 2014’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona brought together the mobile telephony infrastructure[...]

The Security Education Dilemma

By Charles Brett Security covers many dimensions, including the physical and logical. As such many[...]

Data Stored Factor: do you know how many times is a given piece of data stored?

By Charles Brett Are enterprises asking the right questions about data and its storage? This[...]

Vodafone: an unexpected surprise

By Charles Brett Vodafone is an exception as a telco. It has a heritage in[...]

Are we barking up the wrong mobile data protection tree?

By Charles Brett Professional IT prefers disciplined approaches which back up, or copy, all enterprise[...]

How much is a mobile data gigabyte?

By Charles Brett A gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes. Computer science tells us this is so.[...]

Backing up your VMware environment

Is your VMware back up under control? No, we thought not. Virtualisation has achieved many[...]

Social Business and unknown unknowns

By Charles Brett At an Analyst Briefing in London in late September IBM described what[...]