Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation
Analyst Headlines: Securing the Wide Area
Andrew Buss discusses how security needs to become embedded and automated within the network and[...]
Behind the Headlines: Securing the Wide Area
Andrew Buss discusses how security needs to become embedded and automated within the network and[...]
Unilever adopts new technology to drive agile infrastructure delivery
Andrew Buss speaks with Garry Meaburn, the operations effectiveness and tooling manager at Unilever and[...]
BPM from back office to front office and beyond
Are you tough enough to take on BPM and win? Someone has to. It has[...]
Selected highlights from IBM UK Impact 2012, London
Websphere and beyond On June 12th, IBM Southbank hosted a one-day version of its Impact[...]
Private Cloud and IT Service Delivery
By Martha Bennett, Tony Lock & Dale Vile Key Points IT funding is under stress,[...]
The Links between Public and Private Cloud
By Martha Bennett and Tony Lock Key Points ‘Cloud’ concepts are widely understood, but practical[...]
Beware of what you ask – you might just get the answer
One of the perils inherent in Big Data projects About 20 years ago, we were[...]
Desktop Virtualization
Desktop virtualization has progressed from a niche way of handling exceptional user requirements to a[...]
Private Cloud in Context
To make sense of private cloud, you need unravel it from the broader cloud computing[...]
Energy Aware Planning and Decision Making
Energy availability and management is increasingly becoming an important agenda item for IT leaders, but[...]
Working smarter, not harder
What options are there to help people work together more effectively? The emergence of new[...]
Seven enablers of effective disaster recovery for SMEs
By Tony Lock In a nutshell: Recent research carried out by Freeform Dynamics identified seven[...]
Your office in the cloud – dream or nightmare?
Considerations for SaaS-based email and office productivity tools Why go to all the trouble of[...]
Time to assess the value of the data you hold
Failing to do so could be costly There’s no need to rattle off another set[...]
Office 365 in the real world
A run through of precisely what it takes to move your business productivity apps to[...]
Delivering better services with integrated management
What’s in it for IT professionals? When systems are implemented and managed in isolation, it[...]
Conducting the trio, not orchestrating a symphony
Tunes to get you started ’Dynamic workload management’ and ’private cloud’ are just two of[...]
IT Infrastructure Management Must Move with the Times
The technologies and solutions used in the IT infrastructure have changed dramatically over the years,[...]
Six common impediments to effective IT change management
We at Freeform Dynamics have been running surveys and interactive workshops with The Register’s readership[...]
Fast Forward to Big Data
Does ’cloud’ have a roll in providing customers with access to new data sources to[...]
Readers tell us why implementing change is so hard
Readers have provided some great feedback during our latest workshop on a topic that has[...]
Managing IT like a (service) pro
Organisations are often told that running their IT as a service would be the right[...]
The Consumerisation of IT – exposing a few myths
Ignoring key trends could be harmful to corporate health Is it really true that organisations[...]