By Tony Lock There has never been a clearer understanding of how quickly business is changing and how rapidly IT technologies are evolving. With this in mind, we recently ran…
Cloud is a broad brush term that covers several different approaches to delivering IT services and there is currently a lot of discussion looking at the role of managed service…
The cost of supplying IT services inside businesses has never been more visible with considerable marketing attention asking ‘why aren’t you using Cloud based services rather than running your own…
By Tony Lock Over the course of the last year or two an assertion has started to be heard that email is becoming less relevant in the modern, “social networking”…
By Tony Lock ‘Big Data’ is a hot topic receiving considerable attention from the marketing departments of IT vendors. Freeform Dynamics has recently published two papers exploring many facets of…
Many organisations today only archive data when there is some external legislative driver forcing their hand. Even then it is only performed for very specific data sets. This webcast looks…
By Tony Lock A couple of years before terms such as “Cloud”, “Big Data” and “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) occupied the lexicon of IT publications and vendor marketing machines,…
Results of a web survey illustrate the state of business information and analytics today. Just how familiar are organisations with concepts like ‘Big Data’ and are IT professionals ready to…
By Tony Lock When computers were first created, all attention was centred on getting answers to complex calculations that could not be solved directly by mathematics. Calculus was everything and…
CIOs have a tough job delivering an expanding range of services to ever more demanding customers and responding rapidly to requests. The challenge is made much more demanding as most…
Big Data suffers misuse but at its heart is really about getting more value from information held. How well are organisations doing information analytics and will Big Data make a…
In most organisations the acquisition of storage and its associated management tools was, until recently, usually a by-product of a server based project. Such projects were in turn often set…
There is no doubt that “Tablet” devices and “Slates” are attracting a lot of attention in the press and in business use. Fashion being fashion, so far most of the…
There is a long history of end users wanting, or ‘needing’, to have ‘different’ tools to use in the workspace. Until recently such desires have usually been expressed in terms…
Will every data centre become a cloud? As nearly everyone working in IT understands, things never stand still for long. Over the past couple of years many large organisations have…
Business must be ready to respond to rapidly changing market conditions. For any organisation to be able to react rapidly there is a clear requirement for the devolution of decision…
It is said that the technology at the heart of IT changes at a bewildering pace, and it is reckoned by many observers that the changes are taking place at…
The impacts on budgets, reporting and IT delivery models. When economic times are hard there is always pressure on budgets in every area of business operations. Indeed justifying any spend…
Businesses are still operating under enormous economic pressure and, as would be expected, this continues to put CIOs on the spot when it comes time for budget setting. But whilst…
Desktops are now visibly mission critical Desktop Virtualisation is a topic that has enjoyed considerable attention over the last year or two and mainstream organisations are now seriously considering how…
By Tony Lock In a nutshell: Recent research carried out by Freeform Dynamics identified seven key facilitators that help make Disaster Recovery (DR) easier to undertake. Key points: Few small…
Wonderful in theory, but few have it available Going back, say, five or ten years, for many IT professionals managing IT systems came down to looking after the servers that…
What’s in it for IT professionals? When systems are implemented and managed in isolation, it can be difficult to get an end-to-end view of how they interact. That in turn…
