Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation

Dedication to regulation

By Martin Atherton Regulation is a fact of life and business. The signs are that[...]

Virtualisation and Security

As x86 / x64 server virtualisation moves into everyday operations, what impact does it have[...]

IT trends: Don’t get distracted by the spaniel

For better or for worse, we are the owners of a mad Welsh Springer spaniel[...]

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[...]

How do you manage service levels in a virtualised environment?

In previous research projects we’ve examined the impact of service level monitoring and management, and[...]

Social wariness is wise for business

A colleague pulled me up with a start the other day when I was talking[...]

Mid-market management software

By Jon Collins, Tony Lock and Dale Vile IT management tools are finally, after many[...]

Does business social networking really need IT?

Are you wrestling with the idea of bringing social networking (choose your own preferred term)[...]

What is service management?

This 60-minute webcast features Martin Atherton and Tony Lock, who donning business and IT hats[...]

Evolution of Dynamic IT

by Dale Vile and Tony Lock Against the backdrop of an increasingly fast moving and[...]

Pricing the fluffy stuff

By Josie Sephton Cloud really is the new black, and it is hard to get[...]

Social computing – start small, think big

By David Tebbutt Don’t be afraid of social networking collaboration tools in the office. Your[...]

Give workers a say in corporate IT

There can be little doubt that the personal and domestic use of technology has had[...]

The Register Buzz Report

In association with The Register According to a research survey conducted with The Register readership[...]

Perception versus reality in IT

By Tony Lock In the world of information technology there is the impression that everything[...]

Making sense of energy

By David Tebbutt Have you started getting the energy bills for your department yet? What[...]

The strategic upside of power accountability

By Dale Vile Research conducted by Freeform Dynamics a year ago suggested that the majority[...]

Making IT Work In The Real World

Most organisations run a mix of systems in their IT infrastructure. One of the challenges[...]

Moments of Need

by Josie Sephton and Dale Vile With high speed networks, sophisticated devices and a myriad[...]

SOA and Growth Markets

by Jon Collins and Dale Vile KEY FINDINGS SOA is as relevant in growth economies[...]

BT and Cloud

By Dale Vile While the cloud computing market is in its infancy at the moment,[...]

Clarity on Cloud

By Dale Vile A senior exec from a major IT vendor recently commented in a[...]

Challenging the cloud revolution

By Dale Vile Some niche and emerging enterprise IT suppliers, such as Salesforce.com, Google and[...]