Author Archives: Freeform Dynamics
End User Productivity Revisited
Despite the plethora of ‘productivity solutions’ available from IT suppliers, why is it that real[...]
Spreading iTunes beyond Apple equipment
This is a story of my experiences of using non-Apple equipment to expand my use[...]
How to gear up for dynamic service delivery
If servers and applications form the heart of the IT infrastructure, then the network is[...]
End-to-end service assurance
It may not always seem like it, but wherever IT is responsible for providing applications[...]
The how and why of virtualising core business applications
When it come to virtualisation and private cloud, it seems that IT is happy to[...]
Windows 7 roll out: learning from the experts
So what’s involved in a large scale migration of Windows 7? Well, as this webcast[...]
Time to get serious about managing security
Do you know what’s running in your network? In this time of ever increasing security[...]
Marketing, selling and listening: essential elements of the IT skills set
There’s nothing new in the concept of IT marketing or selling itself to the business,[...]
The Co-operative on virtualisation & Windows 7
Windows 7 migration is not just about upgrading the operating system. In this webcast we[...]
Cloud Connectivity
By Andrew Buss KEY POINTS Connectivity is not widely perceived to be a major barrier[...]
Does Office 365 keep its promises?
Running your email and office applications in the cloud is not a new idea; Google[...]
Royal Mail opens the kimono once more
Is it possible to migrate a large scale email environment to the cloud and keep[...]
Cloud today, tomorrow, not yet
Given all the hype and conjecture recently, we could be forgiven for thinking that we[...]
Happy 100th birthday IBM
A couple of months ago, I picked up a tweet on Twitter that said something[...]
Licensing in the virtual age
By Andrew Buss Having sat through countless vendor cloud pitches, there seems to be an[...]
Cloud and Storage
By Tony Lock The topic of “Cloud” has not escaped the attention of anyone in[...]
The other enterprise desktop
There are few topics in the IT industry that are more divisive than the option[...]
Rationalising software licencing in the virtual age
It was only a few weeks ago that we raised the topic of software licencing[...]
The Royal Mail moves to the cloud
Private cloud is a nice theory, but what does it translate to in practice when[...]
Help! I’m in an abusive relationship with my supplier
In a previous article we highlighted the various ways in which sales and service functions[...]
Cloud Service Categories
There are many ways to classify cloud service offerings. The most basic is to relate[...]
The workload challenge
Today, IT Infrastructure is evolving at a tremendous pace. The Mainframe computer, now often referred[...]
Decision criteria for open source and proprietary software
The selection of operating systems was once one of the major decisions IT managers had[...]
Visualisation into action
Do you have lots of data but find it difficult to work out what it[...]