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Forecasting logon storms with desktop virtualisation

Freeform Dynamics 14 December 2011 No Comments

Desktop virtualisation is all about centralising the various aspects of client computing such as processing, data transfers and storage. Taking a previously highly distributed architecture and condensing it has the…

The trials and tribulations of data centre networking

Freeform Dynamics 29 November 2011 No Comments

By Tony Lock For much of the last decade data centre networking, along with networking in general, has become accepted as part of the glue that is invisible to business…

How big is Big Data?

Freeform Dynamics 29 November 2011 No Comments

‘Big data’ is one of those ‘buzz’ terms that is difficult to avoid, at least by anybody who reads IT-related publications, or receives vendor marketing materials. From that perspective, ‘big…

Bridging the information gap

Freeform Dynamics 29 November 2011 No Comments

The pace at which modern business tends to move has resulted in a situation where centralised decision-making struggles to keep up. In order to get the required level of flexibility…

Building tech for the flexible worker

Freeform Dynamics 24 November 2011 No Comments

Remote workers need support and training. The IT department needs to secure their devices and fix them when they go wrong. Consumer devices need to be integrated, and business systems…

Big data in Context

Freeform Dynamics 22 November 2011 No Comments

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – TheRegister:IntelAcademy, 22nd November 2011 Presenter(s) – Martha Bennett VIDEO OF PRESENTATION AVAILABLE HERE Big Data in Context View more presentations from Freeform…

Expert Clinic – Building cloud-optimised networks

Freeform Dynamics 7 November 2011 No Comments

Cloud computing is all about providing services as reliably and transparently as possible to the end-user. One of the pivotal underpinnings of cloud is that applications are not set up…

The storage boom and bust cycle

Freeform Dynamics 3 November 2011 No Comments

More data more often than not means more disks. It was ever thus – but in these cash-strapped times, just buying more kit is no longer an option. But is…

The consumerisation of IT: it’s a trickle, not a tide, but you still need to be ready

Freeform Dynamics 2 November 2011 No Comments

If media headlines and vendor claims are to be believed, organisations today are faced with an unstoppable tide of many different types of personal device connected to corporate networks, and…

Flash and HTML5, or Flash vs HTML5?

Freeform Dynamics 21 October 2011 No Comments

If anybody attending the Adobe MAX conference had any doubts about Adobe’s commitment to Flash, these were firmly dispelled soon after the start of the event. Equally, anybody for whom…

Clouds for hire

Freeform Dynamics 20 October 2011 No Comments

Is it effective to build out a network infrastructure to handle all workloads, rather than build what’s needed most of the time and look outside to handle the extra when…

Big data and the cloud

Freeform Dynamics 3 October 2011 No Comments

One of the big advantages of cloud computing is scalability in terms of both server and storage resources. Meanwhile, many emerging ‘big data’ applications are focused on processing high volume…

Smarter Networking for a smarter data centre

Freeform Dynamics 1 October 2011 No Comments

How do data centre networks need to evolve as business systems become ever more complex? Workload patterns are changing, especially as virtualisation takes hold, but organisations are starting to look…

Beware the cost of virtualisation lock-in

Freeform Dynamics 30 September 2011 No Comments

As the old saying goes, repeat something enough times and it becomes accepted as the truth. It’s starting to seem this way when it comes to the potential savings that…

Will SaaS make you more efficient?

Freeform Dynamics 28 September 2011 No Comments

SaaS might give you more availability, it might cut your capital costs, and it might give you a big empty server room in your basement where you can play ping…

Expert Clinic – Flattening Ethernet

Freeform Dynamics 16 September 2011 No Comments

The concept of an IT service used to be defined as an individual, often silo’d, application running on dedicated hardware. With static infrastructure, traffic was fairly predictable, moving between applications…

User productivity: Achievable goal, or mission impossible?

Freeform Dynamics 5 September 2011 No Comments

The role – and limits – of technology as an enabler of productivity gains ‘Productivity’, and how to improve it, is a discussion topic that simply isn’t going away. Despite…

Rumours of the PC’s death are greatly exaggerated

Freeform Dynamics 31 August 2011 No Comments

By Martha Bennett If recent headlines are anything to go by, the days of the humble PC are numbered, regardless of whether it’s a desktop or a notebook. We at…

Virtual worlds away in SMB space

Freeform Dynamics 22 August 2011 No Comments

Industry-standard x86 servers have now been used in SMBs for about 20 years, making this type of hardware one of the computing resources on which SMBs depend to function. Indeed,…

Don’t be fooled

Freeform Dynamics 19 August 2011 No Comments

By Tony Lock If one were to believe even a tenth of the marketing messages that are thrown out by IT vendors, the quality of IT services delivered inside organisations…

The importance of mutual understanding: A faster track to business alignment and satisfied users

Freeform Dynamics 15 August 2011 No Comments

Here at Freeform Dynamics we’re renowned for advocating a service centric approach to IT. The benefits of tend to come back to IT in numerous ways – users are happier,…

Making the most of licence flexibility

Freeform Dynamics 15 August 2011 No Comments

A few months ago we highlighted the difficulties that many companies have when it comes to managing software licences and subscriptions. One of the issues raised was that in an…

End User Productivity Revisited

Freeform Dynamics 5 August 2011 No Comments

Despite the plethora of ‘productivity solutions’ available from IT suppliers, why is it that real productivity improvements are so hard to pull off. Could it be that it’s not just…

How to gear up for dynamic service delivery

Freeform Dynamics 3 August 2011 No Comments

If servers and applications form the heart of the IT infrastructure, then the network is the lifeblood that carries the oxygen of information through the organs of the business, allowing…