Author Archives: Tony Lock
The joy of software licensing on the desktop
One of the joys of working as a manager of desktop and laptop systems is[...]
Using systems management tools in IT security
Every IT professional recognises the importance of securing the IT systems that are now at[...]
Server financing: CAPEX, OPEX or something else
In the current economic climate access to spending money is tight across all businesses. In[...]
Data security strategies and drivers
Audience – Sales and pre-sales audience selling to large enterprises and government Occasion – Annual[...]
Rethinking security. Just what are you trying to secure?
Ask any IT manager, business leader or regulator and they will tell you that IT[...]
Workload selection on mixed server estates
Over the last year or so Freeform Dynamics has asked Reg readers if the new[...]
Provisioning – how do you approach it?
Buying new physical servers has always taken time and effort. Unfortunately virtualisation has managed to[...]
Are CIOs ready to use cloud computing?
By Tony Lock Seldom in the history of IT have CIOs faced a marketing barrage[...]
Infrastructure Consolidation
By Tony Lock Research results obtained by Freeform Dynamics towards the end of 2009 show[...]
Can IT Financing and Management Models Survive IT Change?
By Tony Lock In a nutshell: The models used for businesses to create IT budgets[...]
Is your data safe – and accessible?
Data protection has been a requirement and an obligation for organisations of all sizes since[...]
The case for storage virtualisation
‘Virtualisation’ is acknowledged by IT professionals as being a pretty good thing. But when we[...]
What is service management?
This 60-minute webcast features Martin Atherton and Tony Lock, who donning business and IT hats[...]
The Great Virtualization Debate
by Tony Lock With virtualization close to the top of every CIO’s to do list,[...]
The Future Of Virtualisation?
by Tony Lock There are few areas of IT that have developed so[...]
Security Divulgence – where’s the rub?
by Tony Lock A couple of weeks ago I attended a roundtable, organised to[...]
Arming techies with business nous
by Tony Lock We recently had a very interesting conversation with Martin Griss,[...]
Desktop management
by Tony Lock Throughout much of the last 15 years a lot of attention[...]