Intelligent Systems - Freeform Dynamics

Exploiting the machine on your terms to drive business advantage

In many areas of business, and especially in IT and analytics, automation is the only way to both do more with less, and do it better and faster. That means offloading as much as possible to automated systems, which in turn means using AI and related technologies such as machine learning.

Our Content:

Don’t let your smart software suffer from poor platform choices

12 January 2023

Mismatched AI and analytics can be massively inefficient[...]

Striking a balance between risk and innovation: Lessons from an autonomous ship

28 March 2022

Back story to a different kind of voyage[...]

The Agile Intelligent Enterprise: Making the Business Case for SAP S/4HANA

21 October 2020

Clever Planning for a Successful Migration[...]

The role of machine learning and automation in storage

30 July 2020

Drivers, perceptions, readiness and practicalities[...]

Taking the drudgery out of analytics

17 July 2020

Analyst Blog: In recent years the importance of analytics has grown dramatically[...]

How Covid-19 can sicken your AI apps too

31 May 2020

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

AI in Industry: The Myths and Reality

5 May 2020

Machine Learning as a key enabler of next-generation industry[...]

AI in industry: the hype, the reality, and the unavoidable opportunity

8 March 2020

But IT should beware of overcoming AI-wash only to fall victim to ML-sprawl[...]

Digital Transformation Practicalities

14 September 2018

Lessons from Leonardo[...]

Enterprise AI: fiction and reality

20 June 2018

Analyst opinion If you are starting to suspect that the AI hype is overblown, and[...]

Laying the foundations for Enterprise AI

18 June 2018

An architectural approach to deep learning platforms[...]

Enabling Industry 4.0 Infographic

9 June 2018

IIoT needs an intelligent edge[...]

Connecting the industrial edge

23 May 2018

Look for the common patterns[...]

Industrial Digital Transformation

9 May 2018

On the cutting edge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution[...]

Is HoloLens a serious business tool?

22 November 2017

It's beginning to look that way[...]

All-Flash Arrays

1 August 2017

All-Flash is becoming ‘the new normal’ in enterprise storage, but is right consider it as[...]

Ransomware: Will your backup protect you?

16 June 2017

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Understanding Software-Defined Storage

1 April 2017

In a nutshell The term “software-defined storage” (SDS) is all over the press, yet sometimes[...]

The Enterprise Flash Imperative

1 March 2017

From expensive luxury to essential enabler[...]

Five years later, the hybrid cloud is real

20 February 2017

When we surveyed over 300 IT and business professionals back in 2011 on their attitudes[...]

Getting all-flash storage investment approved

1 February 2017

We are at an interesting time in the all-flash storage array market[...]

Rethinking long term data management

1 February 2017

The emerging role of active archiving[...]

Unleashing the full potential of all-flash arrays

31 December 2016

The network is part of the system too[...]

Enterprise Flash – The New Normal?

25 November 2016

In a nutshell All-Flash Arrays (AFAs) have come a very long way in a short[...]

Poor capacity planning is not our fault

11 November 2016

Sysadmins explain why things are so crap[...]

Big questions for those looking for answers in big data

10 November 2016

“Some complex systems, such as the weather, are oblivious to our predictions. The process of[...]

All-flash storage uncertainty and doubt

2 November 2016

In a nutshell All-flash arrays are arguably coming of age, but in an early market,[...]

A peek behind the AI bandwagon

10 October 2016

When an important topic or trend gives rise to a marketing and media bandwagon, any[...]

Intelligent Systems in Action Infographic

30 September 2016

Content Contributors: Dale Vile & Jack Vile[...]

Data encryption must be a priority for the digital business

18 August 2016

Organizations large and small are investing in digital transformation programs, cloud migration projects, and enterprise[...]

AMZN, AAPL, GOOGL, FB, and MSFT

12 August 2016

With a combined market capitalization of $2.3 trillion, Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft hold[...]

Everyone’s talking about Dedupe

5 August 2016

In a nutshell Storage is a very hot topic in every data centre and computer[...]

Taking Sales Performance to the Next Level

18 July 2016

So you’ve invested in CRM, and maybe a set of sophisticated modelling and analytics tools[...]

Intelligent Systems in Action

6 July 2016

As technology becomes smarter, more opportunities arise to exploit AI, machine learning and other forms[...]

Cyber Security Ownership and Responsibility

14 March 2016

It’s easy to be caught out by a cyber attack or internal mistake that leads[...]

Why are backup and recovery measures often not as robust as they should be?

7 March 2016

Data protection is essential for every business and its importance cannot be underestimated for disaster[...]

Building a Curated Digital Hub

1 March 2016

In a nutshell In today’s online business environment, with data spread broadly and widely, making[...]

Tackling End User Content Sprawl

1 March 2016

In a nutshell The problem of content sprawl has been around since the early days[...]

IBM’s Spectrum Suite of storage tools is going to be a hard sell

27 January 2016

IBM’s announcement of a storage suite with per Tb pricing is a natural move following[...]

Enterprise Storage Architectures

31 October 2015

Enterprise scale up storage arrays have traditionally been expensive to acquire and complex to manage.[...]

Key Advances in Storage Technology

30 September 2015

While your storage infrastructure may be meeting current needs, you will almost certainly be investing[...]

Modern Storage Options for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

30 September 2015

If you work in a small or medium-sized business environment, storage is probably something you[...]

Data Protection and Management in a Box

30 September 2015

In today’s fast-moving, information-intensive business environment, data management is more of a challenge than ever.[...]

Ceph as an Enabler of Growth and Scalability

30 September 2015

A perennial problem with storage is how to deal with escalating requirements in a smooth,[...]

User-Centric Mobile Security

15 September 2015

Not so long ago, many were speculating that ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) would define[...]

What hyper-converged storage really means for you

1 June 2015

To paraphrase an old joke, ask three IT “experts” for a definition of hyper-convergence and[...]

Evolution of the OpenText portfolio

20 May 2015

A few days into my first software sales role back in the 90’s, I was[...]

Storage Quality of Service Management

7 May 2015

Organisations are increasingly turning to multi-tiered shared storage environments to deal with growing data volumes,[...]

The Impact of VMware VVOLs on Storage

1 April 2015

VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) are due to be released in 2015 and have been designed[...]

Data Virtualisation for DevOps

18 March 2015

The DevOps movement is supported by a whole range of tools, and is particularly well[...]

Are data centres heading towards a future of technology hardware monocultures?

23 February 2015

You have probably heard the representatives of at least a few vendors say IT is moving[...]

The Promise and Practicalities of Flash

19 February 2015

With the flash storage market developing rapidly it’s important to understand the nature of the[...]

Data Protection and RAID

18 February 2015

Rapid data growth, a greater emphasis on operational risk and developments in storage hardware are[...]

Hyper-Scale Data Management

17 February 2015

The term ‘Software Defined Storage’ is used to describe a wide range of ideas and[...]

Insurance through the Looking Glass

30 November 2014

Creating a more customer centric business environment has historically been hard to achieve. In this[...]

The IT vendor empathy gap

1 September 2014

Industry analysts, CIOs and others involved in the IT decision making process are on the[...]

Information Management and Access in the Public Sector

30 August 2014

With the advent of digitisation, all public sector environments generate and capture a significant amount[...]

Building an open cloud: Say no to silos

27 May 2014

It’s a hybrid world. But proprietary clouds are hard to integrate and less flexible. On[...]

Get REAL about data location in the cloud

27 February 2014

Where to put your data, how to decide in the real world Performance, compliance, privacy,[...]

Data Stored Factor: do you know how many times is a given piece of data stored?

5 December 2013

By Charles Brett Are enterprises asking the right questions about data and its storage? This[...]