Author Archives: Freeform Dynamics
Do UC it?
There is a lot of focus currently on unified communications (UC) – the integration of[...]
Email resiliency and the SMB
by Martin Atherton For most businesses, IT is linked to multiple facets of activity: product[...]
Is your data safe on US visits?
Over the weekend, I was invited to attend the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco[...]
The long and winding road to application service availability
Strange as it may seem today the days of hyper-resilient systems have yet to arrive.[...]
Hacking through the green jungle
If you want to lead a guilt-laden and depressing life, get yourself a machete and[...]
Webslides are go
I’ve noticed a couple of new(ish) web services recently. Each allows you to create a[...]
Testing Governance And Data Management – The lie of the land
Audience – Security and policy officers Occasion – Optim user event Presenter(s) – Jon Collins[...]
Service Orientation in Business
by Jon Collins KEY FINDINGS While change is a certainty in business, some still struggle[...]
Cloud Computing – Costly Storm or Gentle Breeze?
It’s hard to read an article on the web these days without either “Cloud computing”[...]
A desirable and practical digital book?
Nothing is more satisfying, nor more wasteful of resources, than printing out some of the[...]
Secure USB
by Jon Collins When the USB standard was first launched, few would have imagined the[...]
Green tips from the real world
I spend far too much time poring over information provided by government departments, quangos and[...]
A breath of fresh air. Eventually.
Many companies have spoken to me of their ambitions to become carbon neutral by some[...]
A holistic approach to green IT is essential
Green computing is an admirable objective – but because the strategy focuses on computing[...]
Watch worker activity to predict software demands
If you listen to the Web 2.0 or Enterprise 2.0 evangelists, you’d think that the[...]
Hassle-free online conferencing
Do people in your company need to collaborate fairly intimately with others who are geographically[...]
Why I’m interested in Open Source
Because its having a distorting effect on the rest of the industry. I’m afraid I[...]
Time to green-light sustainable IT
With their piecemeal approaches, most organisations are merely dabbling with green technology. True sustainability is[...]
Public VoIP for cheap long distance calls
I had to prepare for a research project recently that would involve conducting lengthy telephone[...]
Desktop Virtualisation – Where to Begin
There is increasing discussion in many organisations, across a broad range of geographies, industry verticals[...]
R. Todd Stephens on Enterprise 2.0
Sometimes it’s easy to be overwhelmed by new ways of working. Enterprise 2.0, for example,[...]
To change your world, put yourself in the boss’s shoes
Last month the National Computing Centre held its annual conference. Opening the event, which was[...]
Desktop power management
It’s encouraging that many of the conversations we are having at the moment in relation[...]
The Cool Curve and related matters
Toby Moores is a businessman whose stock in trade is ideas. His company generates them[...]