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The SMB solution selection challenge

21 June 2021

It's all too easy for smaller businesses to get caught out[...]

The business change agenda

17 June 2021

Throwback Thursday: Research carried out in 2011[...]

How to boost supplier commitment without spending more money

15 June 2021

Time to tune into those non-revenue goals[...]

Even data fragmentation has gone virtual

27 May 2021

Throwback Thursday: If there’s one thing our report from eight years ago reminds us[...]

Data governance in software testing

6 May 2021

Throwback Thursday: this week we're going back to 2008[...]

Private cloud in contexts old and new

22 April 2021

Throwback Thursday: What a difference a decade can make[...]

Mobile moments and the past left far behind

8 April 2021

Throwback Thursday We have looked at many reports from years ago that show that, whilst[...]

Remember when cloud was going to kill the IT channel?

18 March 2021

Throwback Thursday: taking a regular stroll in the Freeform Dynamics archives. [...]

Has the data centre of the future already arrived?

4 March 2021

Throwback Thursday: Predicting the future back in 2012[...]

Effective IT recovery in small/midsize businesses, 10 years on? Maybe tomorrow…

18 February 2021

Throwback Thursday: this week we're going back to 2011[...]

The #WFH ‘New Normal’ is nothing of the sort

16 February 2021

Analyst Opinion At least, not yet. The world is still in the very abnormal grip[...]

10 years on, and HPC is taken for granted

4 February 2021

Throwback Thursday: Heading back to 2010[...]

Business performance management still chasing the real-time dream

21 January 2021

Throwback Thursday: This week we are going back to 2007[...]

How have attitudes to risk and resilience changed?

14 January 2021

Throwback Thursday: Looking back to June 2008[...]

A prophetic look back at Green IT

7 January 2021

Throwback Thursday: Back in the summer of 2008[...]

x86 Server virtualisation check point

17 December 2020

Throwback Thursday: This week we are heading back to 2010[...]

Linux on the Desktop

10 December 2020

Throwback Thursday: The first thing that struck me when I re-read our ‘Linux on the[...]

We need to start prioritizing workforce health and wellbeing

4 December 2020

Analyst Opinion: “This has been a shot in the arm for those who have long[...]

The authentication arms race continues

3 December 2020

Thursday Throwback: This week we are heading back to 2006[...]

Social interaction in the digital workplace

27 November 2020

Analyst opinion: As workplaces increasingly pivot to virtual presence, how can we stay connected?[...]

IT Support, now and then

26 November 2020

Throwback Thursday: Comparing IT support in 2020 with IT support in 2006[...]

The #WFH extended talent opportunity

23 November 2020

Analyst Opinion: The rise of the virtual “workplace” – implications for inclusivity and Generation Z[...]

Make the camera work for you, not against you

4 August 2020

Analyst Opinion: Hands up anyone who expected not just to spend 2020 at home, but[...]

The pandemic and productivity: a Covid-19 conundrum

11 July 2020

Analyst Opinion “I’ve never been more productive!” With so many people getting their first experience[...]

Are you ready to pay the ‘mental debts’ of Covid-19?

5 July 2020

Analyst Opinion It’s easy to predict many of the pains that are going to hit[...]

AI without tears: the drive for automation and self-service

28 June 2020

Analyst Opinion In the post-pandemic, post-Brexit world, businesses of all sorts face a range of[...]

How Covid-19 can sicken your AI apps too

1 June 2020

Analyst Opinion AI might not be the first thing you think of when you start[...]

Outsourcing: a clear look at a cloudy subject

18 March 2020

Analyst Opinion “Wasn’t cloud just another name for outsourcing back then?” joked another guest in[...]

Data protection is too complex for RTO and RPO to be singular

9 February 2020

Analyst Opinion I think we can all agree that protecting data is important – perhaps[...]

Consent and GDPR: get the basics right!

24 January 2020

Analyst Opinion Why do companies find it so hard to get their heads around even[...]

For business AI, focus on psychology, not technology

19 January 2020

Analyst Opinion There’s no doubt now that AI works, and it can work very well[...]

DevOps needs more perspective and humility

8 January 2020

Analyst Opinion DevOps started as a grass-roots movement led by practitioners. The motives were pure,[...]

Today’s hybrid clouds look more closed than open

2 January 2020

Analyst Opinion We’ve had convergence towards hybrid clouds and ‘universal’ applications, but now we are[...]

Kubernetes catches up with operational reality

16 November 2019

Analyst Opinion With Kubernetes now established in many organisations as the container orchestration platform of the future,[...]

Mea culpa: Trendy isn’t the same as important

12 October 2019

Analyst Opinion I hate it when you realise that your point of reference has been[...]

New financing models target IT’s acquisition challenges

12 August 2019

Analyst opinion The availability of funding – or rather, the lack of it – is[...]

Threat vs trust: the overlooked power of words

10 July 2019

Analyst Opinion Words have power – in particular, your choice of words modifies how your[...]

Growing fast, OpenStack shakes off old misconceptions

9 July 2019

Analyst opinion One of the most interesting things about the recent Open Infrastructure Summit – the new[...]

Hard drives that do their own data processing

11 June 2019

Analyst opinion It’s getting hard these days to find places where container technology doesn’t feature,[...]

Cybersecurity needs both psychologists and generals

3 June 2019

Analyst opinion Many cybersecurity professionals like military analogies. Indeed, some security pros are ex-military. But[...]

Beware the application complexity monster

28 May 2019

Analyst opinion How many new applications, tools, devices, and cloud services have you introduced into[...]

How Brexit-friendly are your SaaS contracts?

30 January 2019

Analyst opinion[...]

Six months on, GDPR is a qualified success

17 January 2019

Analyst opinion Anyone hoping that we would by now have greater clarity on GDPR will[...]

How long will your New Year stay Happy?

6 January 2019

The Freeform Dynamics fortune-telling kit has been dusted off for 2019. Here some of the[...]

Google Chrome: It’s more than a browser

26 November 2018

Chrome has come a long way, but the journey might only just be starting I[...]

Don’t ignore the complexity of hybrid multi-cloud

21 November 2018

Analyst opinion Many vendors will argue that moving to cloud brings consistency and simplicity, thanks[...]

Open source is growing up – and here’s how

16 November 2018

Analyst opinion If you’re among those who still think that open source is just for[...]

The mainframe returns – as a platform for large-scale Linux

15 November 2018

Analyst opinion There are several ways to build large scale Linux server environments, with x86[...]

Last call for a European public cloud?

9 November 2018

Analyst opinion Europe’s self-described No.1 ‘hyper-scale cloud provider’, OVH, held its 6th annual customer conference[...]

Industrial IoT makes your people more important, not less

9 November 2018

Analyst opinion The recent Industry of Things World conference in Berlin offered insights into the[...]

Google has got serious about Enterprise IT

8 November 2018

Analyst opinion Google has made a complete about-face on the enterprise. It took so long[...]

Cloud Foundry’s growth highlights open source success and the cracks in commercial licensing

24 October 2018

Analyst opinion Open source has crested the hill of enterprise acceptance. There’s no longer the[...]

When modern meetings don’t work

8 October 2018

Analyst opinion Once upon a time, pretty much every meeting had a minute-taker – someone[...]

Is IBM relevant to today’s mainstream?

29 August 2018

Analyst opinion When IT vendors talk about the market, they tend to focus on how[...]

DevOps is wasted unless the business goes Agile too

27 August 2018

Analyst opinion When analysts and journalists write about Agile and DevOps, the focus is typically[...]

What can Chromebooks offer the enterprise desktop market?

9 August 2018

Analyst opinion If you’re an IT professional managing a large desktop estate or an end[...]

A conference room for the future

20 July 2018

Analyst opinion In some ways, the recent completion of Plantronics’ $2 billion purchase of Polycom[...]

Workplace software as an occupational hazard

19 July 2018

Analyst opinion The US Department of Labor has updated its Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.[...]

Millennial versus Mature – who’s the real IT security risk?

18 July 2018

Analyst opinion Passwords have been the mainstay for securing applications, devices and the data they[...]

Your PC is rooted and jailbroken: deal with it!

22 June 2018

Analyst opinion One of the defining characteristics of the modern digital workplace is a PC[...]

Cloud storage is hot

15 June 2018

Analyst opinion But do people know what they mean when they talk about it –[...]

Xero highlights the role of the modern software ecosystem

5 June 2018

Looking beyond the technology I recently caught up with Gary Turner, co-founder and managing of[...]

Growth mindset lets Microsoft love Linux

9 May 2018

Analyst opinion Timed to coincide with the RSA security conference, Microsoft has announced Azure Sphere,[...]

Routes to AI goodness

7 February 2018

Analyst opinion It’s all too easy to conflate the kind of AI being hyped in[...]

Time to dump the all-flash scepticism

5 February 2018

Analyst opinion When we surveyed several hundred IT professionals on the topic of All-Flash Arrays,[...]

Microsoft’s challenge for 2018: mindshare & market relevance

2 February 2018

Analyst opinion Microsoft’s revenues are up, but compared to its biggest competitors — Amazon, Apple,[...]

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