Author Archives: Freeform Dynamics

Beyond device-centric computing: Breaking barriers to enable productivity

In this webinar, Martha Bennett of Freeform Dynamics and Harry Labana of AppSense discuss the[...]

Rising to the information management challenge

In a world of increasingly devolved decision making, few would disagree that it’s important to[...]

CA ERwin – Getting reacquainted with an old friend

Back in the deep dark past, when I designed and optimised relational databases for a[...]

CIO: business co-pilot, or back seat driver?

We may agonise long and hard over IT and Business alignment but the real ambition[...]

Getting to grips with SMB resilience

It is recognised across almost all companies that disasters or major events can interrupt business[...]

Winners and losers in the information race

The mainstream media generally portrays the financial services industry as being in a total mess,[...]

RIM changes its leadership, but not its course

On January 23rd, 2012, Research in Motion (RIM) announced Thorsten Heins as President and CEO.[...]

Public sector imperatives – Sneak peak of poll results

We’ve just had a little look at the results so far from our currently running[...]

Time for a fresh look at Disaster Recovery?

Not many people read IT Disaster Recovery plans for pleasure but these documents are often[...]

The secrets of effective disaster recovery

There’s no magic bullet, but there’s a formula Many IT and business executives groan when[...]

Keeping score in the public sector

Hardly a day goes by without news coverage around whether some public sector organisation or[...]

Amazon AWS Direct Connect hits the UK

Last week was extremely busy, so the first I heard of Amazon’s Direct Connect service[...]

Big Data in Context

By Freeform Dynamics We wanted to gain practical insights into the context for some of[...]

Closing the SMB security gap

It’s got the point where the majority of small and medium businesses (SMBs) take the[...]

Information management in financial services

With decision making among banks under so much scrutiny, the important question arises of how[...]

Oracle fleshes out its ’big data’ portfolio

I couldn’t say this for certain, but I get the impression that the marketing noise[...]

SaaS based Email and Office Productivity Tools

If you have an old email server in need of an upgrade or have calls[...]

Enterprise social media revisited

Over the last three or four years, many have been advocating the use of social[...]

Unlock the business value of your information

Stakeholders are increasingly looking to get information ’on demand’ to regulatory bodies; seeking more complex[...]

When business data goes walkabout

Patrolling an effective security regime is never a trivial task, despite the relentless development of[...]

Supporting user-centric computing

User virtualization can make life easier for IT and end users alike Few would dispute[...]

Flatter, faster, more manageable networks

What are the drivers of data centre networking investment? As companies rely ever more on[...]

Forecasting logon storms with desktop virtualisation

Desktop virtualisation is all about centralising the various aspects of client computing such as processing,[...]

The trials and tribulations of data centre networking

By Tony Lock For much of the last decade data centre networking, along with networking[...]