IT Strategy &amp; Planning

Analyst Blog[...]

The real value of NVMe is end-to-end

Analyst Blog Although much is made of NVMe’s role as the modern successor to SAS[...]

Are you ready for NVMe?

Analyst Blog IT has always been hit by marketing waves that speak of new systems[...]

NVMe – The State of Play

Is the new protocol ready to take the storage world by storm?[...]

HCI solutions & SAP HANA

30 August 2019

Modern systems for modern software[...]

The economics of old virtualisation platforms

29 August 2019

Time to start regarding them as legacy?[...]

Reboot your future

28 August 2019

Shaping a new multi-cloud solution[...]

Refresh your thinking

12 August 2019

You've got a platform problem[...]

Digital workspace disasters and how to beat them

8 July 2019

New roles for user management and app deployment in the digital workspace[...]

Data Centre Evolution

14 June 2019

Will HCI change how we design and build core IT systems? The way we build[...]

The non-volatile memory opportunity

7 June 2019

Why NVM matters[...]

The fall and rise of the Mono-socket Server

6 June 2019

Why cores matter as much as sockets Things are different on the desktop, but in[...]

The Audio Networking Jigsaw

4 June 2019

What you need to know as an IT professional[...]

Taking vSphere into the future

3 June 2019

Which route – Converged, Hyper-converged or DIY?[...]

The Economics of Application Platforms

30 May 2019

Don’t let anarchy or false economies hold back future-proof transformation[...]

The Application Complexity Monster

2 May 2019

Do you really want to keep feeding it?[...]

Storage in the Era of NVMe

24 April 2019

An Evaluation Guide for IT Teams As an IT professional dealing with storage, you will[...]

Choice in a Shifting Landscape

24 April 2019

A Business Perspective on Enterprise Storage in the Age of Flash and NVMe As you[...]

The truth about software reliability

19 February 2019

Research results: It's not just about quality[...]

NVMe: a fresh start for storage

30 January 2019

It’s time for a real change, not just iterative AFA evolution[...]

Operational Feedback and People

13 November 2018

The overlooked element of DevOps[...]

Digital Transformation Practicalities

14 September 2018

Lessons from Leonardo[...]

Dealing with the GDPR Challenge Infographic

22 July 2018

The catalyst for a move to modern data protection[...]

All-in-one Data Protection

22 June 2018

Taking the pain out of information management[...]

GDPR: the Security Dimension

23 May 2018

Information security, governance and regulation in harmony[...]

Fast Track to Enterprise Cloud

15 May 2018

Integrated platforms as a route to digital readiness[...]

How Agile and DevOps enable digital readiness and transformation

9 April 2018

In today’s world, software is everywhere – and it is spreading fast. Once it was[...]

Data Management for a Digital World

19 March 2018

Turn GDPR compliance and ransomware defence to your advantage[...]

Microsoft presents its quantum computing credentials

27 November 2017

Thoughts from the Future Decoded event[...]

The politics and practicalities of IT procurement

8 November 2017

Is cloud becoming a strategic disrupter?[...]

A cloud for all seasons

7 November 2017

Open source PaaS ready for prime time?[...]

The Impact of Automation on IT Operations Infographic

3 November 2017

Are you ready for the software-defined datacentre?[...]

CFO Technology Investment Guide Infographic

28 October 2017

Why prioritise storage modernisation[...]

The Enterprise Cloud Imperative

9 October 2017

Have cloud investments to date laid a good enough foundation for the future, or is[...]

The Impact of Automation on IT Operations

1 October 2017

Over three quarters of those surveyed in a recent multi-national study said the pressure on[...]

Storage modernisation

19 September 2017

An evaluation and decision guide for IT teams[...]

Investing in data storage

19 September 2017

A guide for business executives[...]

A Finance Perspective on Storage Investments

19 September 2017

Getting past ‘No’ with your CFO[...]

Don’t Let an Outdated Software Strategy Hold You Back

14 September 2017

Yesterdays software delivery processes are not up to dealing with today’s demands, but modernising you[...]

Modern Storage for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

13 September 2017

Advanced solutions deliver SMBs power and simplicity[...]

Application Platforms Matter

1 August 2017

Cloud services are increasingly becoming part of the IT delivery mix, but a recent study[...]

Datacentre Strategy and Evolution

17 July 2017

Despite the advent to cloud computing the datacentre remains central to corporate IT. But with[...]

DevOps and Cloud Computing

15 June 2017

Many are exploiting cloud computing to drive business advantage, while others are enjoying the flexibility[...]

The 2nd Generation All-Flash Opportunity Infographic

4 April 2017

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

IT Ops doesn’t matter? Really?

25 March 2017

Listen to some DevOps evangelists talk, and you would get the impression that IT operations[...]

Digital Workplace Transformation

16 March 2017

The business context for Windows 10 in financial services There is a digital divide at[...]

The trouble with business executives…

10 March 2017

When IT teams and their colleagues within the business get along, life is good for[...]

The Green Data Centre – Myth or Reality

3 March 2017

Every few years, core IT infrastructure issues surge into visibility on the corporate radar. Often,[...]

The power management skills gap

1 March 2017

A recent survey by Freeform Dynamics of 320 senior data centre professionals reveals that datacentre[...]

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[...]

Technology as a catalyst for cultural change

2 January 2017

Time for a more inspirational approach?[...]

Managing Cloud Complexity

1 January 2017

The emerging role of converged services[...]

Unleashing the full potential of all-flash arrays

31 December 2016

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

IT Decision-Making in the Digital Age

3 December 2016

Making the right technology investments in today’s fast moving digital age can mean the difference[...]

Desktop budget wrangles

1 December 2016

Whose device is it anyway?[...]

Cloud computing reality check

28 November 2016

Introduction: Is cloud really a kind of magic? Many have positioned cloud computing as the[...]

Poor capacity planning is not our fault

11 November 2016

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

Will hyper-converged infrastructure kill traditional storage?

10 November 2016

In a nutshell Deciding which direction to take with your storage purchasing is a tough[...]

Protecting data in your hyper-converged environment

7 November 2016

In a nutshell Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) has been gaining popularity as a way of simplifying[...]

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,[...]

IT Ops as a Digital Business Enabler

1 November 2016

Some argue that IT operations doesn’t matter anymore; it’s all about developers. Our aim in[...]

Digital transformation initiatives hampered by poor ICT skills

3 September 2016

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published a report detailing the results of an[...]

Managed Services in the Data Centre

1 September 2016

From stability to agility Data centres have been around a long time during which various[...]

Everyone’s talking about Dedupe

5 August 2016

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

The Impact of Cloud on IT Teams

5 August 2016

We often hear that cloud computing dramatically reduces the need for in-house IT teams, and[...]

Digital Disrupters do it to Themselves

1 July 2016

The word ’digital’ seems to have overtaken ’cloud’ as the hottest word in the IT[...]

Capacity planning in an age of agile and on-demand IT

1 July 2016

Capabilities are still far from ideal[...]

Taking DevOps to the Next Level

1 June 2016

It’s all about continuous delivery[...]

A higher impact approach to IT investment

21 March 2016

In a nutshell You may have doubts about the value for money or level of[...]

The dangers of digital smokescreens

21 March 2016

A recent global study (1,442 senior respondents) revealed that those reporting particularly good returns from[...]

If you think DevOps is BS, you may be a victim of bandwagon marketing

20 February 2016

I’ve been coming across more DevOps naysayers and sceptics recently. Whether online or face-to-face, I[...]

Readers of The Register speak out on Thin Client technology

15 February 2016

Managing PC estates is a time-consuming, expensive and thankless task. Better provisioning and management tools[...]

Thin Client Devices Revisited

31 January 2016

Technology best forgotten or time for a renaissance?[...]

Assembling the DevOps Jigsaw

18 November 2015

The world we live in is increasingly digital. As the smart use of technology leads[...]

Exploiting the Software Advantage

1 November 2015

Advances in digital technology create significant opportunities to transform both customer engagement and business operations.[...]

Infrastructure Readiness Temperature Check

19 October 2015

IT infrastructures are often coping pretty well with current business requirements, but many IT professionals[...]

User-Centric Mobile Security

15 September 2015

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

Future Proofing Your Network

1 September 2015

Network traffic flows have become pretty complex in today’s distributed business environment, and not just[...]

Mobile Working without the Tears

22 July 2015

As both company and personally owned mobile devices are increasingly used in business, understanding and[...]

Orchestrating the DevOps Tool Chain

20 April 2015

A great deal has been written about how trends in digital communication and engagement are[...]

Data Virtualisation for DevOps

18 March 2015

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

Justifying end user computing investments

10 March 2015

In a nutshell Device proliferation and loss of control over at least some end user[...]

Strategic DevOps Adoption

10 March 2015

An interesting remark I heard at a recent CIO gathering was “DevOps is the first[...]

Eight Best Practices for Cloud Security

1 March 2015

There’s been a lot of FUD spread around in recent years on the subject of[...]

Virgin Media Business and its SMB proposition

24 February 2015

Over the years, I have grown increasingly sceptical about the ability of most Telcos to[...]

The ’feel-good’ factor is good for business

12 February 2015

People who feel good while doing their job tend to work better, contribute more and[...]

Devices, recruitment and staff retention

9 February 2015

In a nutshell Some say it’s not possible to recruit and retain good staff nowadays[...]

Build a DevOps culture

7 February 2015

Everyone’s talking about DevOps, but not everyone can do it. This webcast covers the balance[...]

Snooper-proofing laptops and tablets?

5 February 2015

Given how important the company’s data is and the ever more stringent nature of the[...]

A new approach to verifying user identity

21 January 2015

By Tony Lock We all know that trying to authenticate our users when they access[...]

Inertia has its virtues, but change is happening

16 December 2014

As the old year draws to a close it’s time for CIOs and analysts to[...]

Creating more harmony around end user computing

11 December 2014

In a nutshell Tensions frequently arise between business units and the IT teams as users[...]

Rethinking desktop delivery

4 December 2014

In a nutshell Many IT professionals are weary of the relentless Windows upgrade spiral and[...]

User flexibility without the risk

2 December 2014

In a nutshell Most organisations are seeing users and business groups starting to make their[...]

The Politics and Practicalities of End User Computing

1 November 2014

With the phenomenal rise in the adoption of smartphones, tablets and other desirable devices, many[...]

So what you gonna do about DevOps?

27 October 2014

Having to deal with the ‘next big thing’ once or twice a year is a[...]

Avoiding the runaway code train

14 October 2014

More and more code, delivered faster and faster. According to many, that’s the imperative if[...]

How much of your mainstream IT capacity does mobility consume?

10 October 2014

Few doubt the increasing popularity of mobile devices, specifically smartphones and tablets. Their numbers grow[...]

Flexible IT governance

4 October 2014

We want flexibility but, if we’re not careful, we get governance confusion as well. In[...]

The Ideal IT Environment

18 September 2014

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Friendly ERP architecture

18 September 2014

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The problem with archiving

18 September 2014

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Do more of your apps deserve better DR?

17 September 2014

What does IT disaster recovery (DR) mean to you? Does it bring to mind racks[...]

User desires versus business needs

10 September 2014

Much has been written about the rise of user influence and power. Some of it[...]

The IT vendor empathy gap

1 September 2014

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

Have you planned for a ’friendly’ DDoS attack?

19 August 2014

Malicious Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks do not occur often. Nevertheless, for an enterprise[...]

Accommodating increased user influence

18 August 2014

Business people often complain that the IT department is not keeping up with their needs.[...]

IT-Business Alignment Revisited

12 August 2014

In some organisations, the tension between IT and business teams has come to a head[...]

Social media and why businesses need to embrace it

17 July 2014

As a teenager just entering the world of business I had to go through a[...]

Wake up, grandad: All the techies use social media

25 June 2014

Ever since I passed the big five-o, I have noticed more and more youngsters who[...]

User Access – Time for a change?

23 June 2014

User expectations and the range of devices they use to access IT systems are growing[...]

Migrating to Windows Server 2012

17 June 2014

Extended support for Windows Server 2003 ends on 14 July 2015, so you need to[...]

End User Computing:

9 June 2014

This paper is written for business executives and managers with an interest in how technology[...]

Mobile security is more than protecting local data

6 June 2014

By now we’ve all heard the term Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). This phenomenon is[...]

What are APT’s?

4 June 2014

What is an APT? APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat. The goal of this form[...]

Say What?

4 June 2014

Recently I attended the IBM Security Systems Analyst Meet the Experts day in Heathrow. With[...]

Security: the oft-forgotten dimension

30 May 2014

Computer security is a hot topic today, and much talked about. There are endless emanations[...]

Juggling Performance, Availability and Security

13 February 2014

By Tony Lock A recent report from Freeform Dynamics illustrates that many corporate networks are[...]

Controlling Application Access

31 January 2014

Application performance, availability and security challenges are quietly creeping up in the context of internal[...]

Predictions for 2014

23 December 2013

My views on market developments in 2014 are not sensational, I’m afraid. I offer them[...]

Will the CMO inherit the Earth?

3 December 2013

By Dale Vile Two narratives concerning the CIO/CMO relationship are doing the rounds at the[...]

Voice recognition in healthcare

21 November 2013

By Dale Vile I first discovered dictation software back in 2001 when I ended up[...]

Software Defined Networking (SDN) continues to move forwards

31 October 2013

By Charles Brett and Tony Lock During an Analyst Briefing at the IBM Development Laboratory[...]

Social Business and unknown unknowns

28 October 2013

By Charles Brett At an Analyst Briefing in London in late September IBM described what[...]

Device Proliferation and Data Fragmentation

11 September 2013

By Tony Lock Bring your own device (BYOD) continues to attract considerable attention, but the[...]

Clouds and the Data Centre weather forecast

23 August 2013

By Tony Lock Enterprise Data Centres are complex collections of systems acquired over long spans[...]

The End User Security Jigsaw

6 August 2013

Organisations of all sizes are trying to understand the security implications of mobile working, device[...]

The Data Protection Imperative

25 July 2013

In this short paper, we spell out why the time has come to adopt a[...]

Data Protection as a Business Enabler

25 July 2013

While the importance of business information is almost universally recognised, few organisations have enjoyed either[...]

Storage Anywhere and Everywhere

26 June 2013

With more departmental applications, collaboration and sharing environments, and even cloud-based services, with access via[...]

Don’t forget the desktop

24 May 2013

By Dale Vile Ask anyone in the industry about the future of end user computing[...]

DCIM and Energy Management

13 May 2013

By Tony Lock Over several decades IT management has focussed almost exclusively on keeping servers[...]

Speeding up ‘Change’

9 May 2013

By Tony Lock For much of the last decade ‘IT’ has become something of a[...]

Empowering your users the ‘right way’

7 May 2013

By Tony Lock Many organisations say their people are among the most valuable assets they[...]

Cloud is more about choice than hosting

16 April 2013

By Dale Vile There’s a trick we use at Freeform Dynamics when trying to figure[...]

To PaaS or not to PaaS – that is the question

15 April 2013

By Dale Vile Most forms of cloud computing are starting to find their place in[...]

Freedom without Anarchy

14 February 2013

Empowering employees through the delegation of authority and trust can enhance innovation and productivity. But[...]

Building the future proof datacentre

11 January 2013

By Andrew Buss The last decade has seen massive leaps in performance and capability across[...]

The next decade of data centre evolution

2 January 2013

By Dale Vile To some, the mere concept of enterprise datacentres still being around in[...]

The data centre in 2020

2 January 2013

By Tony Lock There has never been a clearer understanding of how quickly business is[...]

A Vision for the Data Centre

20 December 2012

The death of on-premise IT as a result of hosted cloud services is greatly exaggerated.[...]

Defragging your Datacentre

20 December 2012

By Andrew Buss The world of business is becoming faster moving, more competitive and ever[...]

Taming the procurement elephant

19 December 2012

The cost of supplying IT services inside businesses has never been more visible with considerable[...]

Martini induced client-server redux

18 December 2012

By Dale Vile If you see the phrase ‘anytime, anyplace, anywhere’ in relation to mobile[...]

Analytics and Big Data

11 December 2012

By Tony Lock ‘Big Data’ is a hot topic receiving considerable attention from the marketing[...]

Upping your game with Windows Server 2012

7 December 2012

Andrew Buss met up with Chris Losch, from Newham Council, and Gary Collins, from Intercept[...]

Why you need an interactive archive

6 December 2012

Many organisations today only archive data when there is some external legislative driver forcing their[...]

Electronic trading dogged by information issues

27 November 2012

By Dale Vile How many suppliers and customers do you trade with in the average[...]

Future-proofing the data centre

20 November 2012

Dale Vile meets with Hewlett-Packard’s David Chalmers They discussed how recent innovations in server, storage[...]

IT Service Management and Business Requirements

15 November 2012

By Tony Lock A couple of years before terms such as “Cloud”, “Big Data” and[...]

Bridging the great divide

14 November 2012

By Andrew Buss At the Intel Developer Forum 2012 in San Francisco, Intel looked to[...]

Data Entry and Device Control

30 October 2012

By Tony Lock When computers were first created, all attention was centred on getting answers[...]

Lack of Understanding inhibits adoption of Big Data

29 October 2012

By Tony Lock Read any IT publication, online or hard copy, and it is hard[...]

Social collaboration: From a faith-based to business-led approach

10 October 2012

I have long been a sceptic of the ‘install it and they will figure out[...]

Effective B2B Integration

30 September 2012

The way in which organisations communicate and transact across supply and demand chains has a[...]

What should CIOs be demanding of Storage Vendors?

21 September 2012

In most organisations the acquisition of storage and its associated management tools was, until recently,[...]

Personal Use of a Windows Tablet in Business – It’s ready for operational use

18 September 2012

There is no doubt that “Tablet” devices and “Slates” are attracting a lot of attention[...]

The Rise of User Centric IT – Is the consumerisation of IT a benefit to anyone?

12 September 2012

There is a long history of end users wanting, or ‘needing’, to have ‘different’ tools[...]

Private Cloud and Data Centre Evolution

12 September 2012

Will every data centre become a cloud? As nearly everyone working in IT understands, things[...]

Translating private cloud into customer requirements

11 September 2012

Identifying the ingredients that make the difference for agile IT The term ‘Private Cloud’ is[...]

Engineering IT for agility – Getting the foundations right

29 August 2012

One of the certainties when it comes to running IT is that change is constant.[...]

Does Microsoft need to change its policy on Windows upgrade pricing to drive tablet momentum?

29 August 2012

Microsoft is unveiling a whole new generation of Windows on October 26th 2012, and significant[...]

How representative is social media data for marketing analytics?

17 August 2012

You don’t have to move in specialist digital marketing circles to have come across the[...]

Data fragmentation challenges restrict business flexibility

10 August 2012

Business must be ready to respond to rapidly changing market conditions. For any organisation to[...]

Siloed approach to IT security increases business risk

6 August 2012

It is said that the technology at the heart of IT changes at a bewildering[...]

Private Cloud and IT Service Delivery

31 July 2012

The impacts on budgets, reporting and IT delivery models. When economic times are hard there[...]

Getting private cloud to play nicely

27 July 2012

By Dale Vile We were surprised at the strength of positive sentiment and relative lack[...]

Playing the SLA long game

27 July 2012

By Dale Vile When IT is your day job it’s easy to lose sight of[...]

From virtualisation to private cloud

25 July 2012

Lots of people are talking about private cloud as the next natural step from virtualisation.[...]

Private Cloud Forecast – Sunny or Stormy times ahead for CIOs?

20 July 2012

Businesses are still operating under enormous economic pressure and, as would be expected, this continues[...]

Analyst Headlines: Accelerating Cloud Adoption

Andrew Buss explains how enterprise drivers and aspirations will shape cloud adoption and the opportunity[...]

Behind the Headlines: Accelerating Cloud Adoption

Andrew Buss explains how enterprise drivers and aspirations will shape cloud adoption and the opportunity[...]

Analyst Headlines: Securing the Access

Andrew Buss discusses the impact of the mega trends such as the Consumerization of IT[...]

Behind the Headlines: Securing the Access

Andrew Buss discusses the impact of the mega trends such as the Consumerization of IT[...]

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

11 July 2012

Andrew Buss speaks with Garry Meaburn, the operations effectiveness and tooling manager at Unilever and[...]

BPM from back office to front office and beyond

29 June 2012

Are you tough enough to take on BPM and win? Someone has to. It has[...]

Selected highlights from IBM UK Impact 2012, London

27 June 2012

Websphere and beyond On June 12th, IBM Southbank hosted a one-day version of its Impact[...]

Private Cloud and IT Service Delivery

26 June 2012

By Martha Bennett, Tony Lock & Dale Vile Key Points IT funding is under stress,[...]

The Links between Public and Private Cloud

25 June 2012

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

18 June 2012

One of the perils inherent in Big Data projects About 20 years ago, we were[...]

Desktop Virtualization

1 June 2012

Desktop virtualization has progressed from a niche way of handling exceptional user requirements to a[...]

Private Cloud in Context

30 May 2012

To make sense of private cloud, you need unravel it from the broader cloud computing[...]

Energy Aware Planning and Decision Making

30 May 2012

Energy availability and management is increasingly becoming an important agenda item for IT leaders, but[...]

Working smarter, not harder

29 May 2012

What options are there to help people work together more effectively? The emergence of new[...]

Seven enablers of effective disaster recovery for SMEs

29 May 2012

By Tony Lock In a nutshell: Recent research carried out by Freeform Dynamics identified seven[...]

Your office in the cloud – dream or nightmare?

17 May 2012

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

11 May 2012

Failing to do so could be costly There’s no need to rattle off another set[...]

Office 365 in the real world

3 May 2012

A run through of precisely what it takes to move your business productivity apps to[...]

Delivering better services with integrated management

28 April 2012

What’s in it for IT professionals? When systems are implemented and managed in isolation, it[...]

Conducting the trio, not orchestrating a symphony

27 April 2012

Tunes to get you started ’Dynamic workload management’ and ’private cloud’ are just two of[...]

IT Infrastructure Management Must Move with the Times

26 April 2012

The technologies and solutions used in the IT infrastructure have changed dramatically over the years,[...]

Six common impediments to effective IT change management

26 April 2012

We at Freeform Dynamics have been running surveys and interactive workshops with The Register’s readership[...]

Fast Forward to Big Data

19 April 2012

Does ’cloud’ have a roll in providing customers with access to new data sources to[...]

Readers tell us why implementing change is so hard

18 April 2012

Readers have provided some great feedback during our latest workshop on a topic that has[...]

Managing IT like a (service) pro

17 April 2012

Organisations are often told that running their IT as a service would be the right[...]

The Consumerisation of IT – exposing a few myths

3 April 2012

Ignoring key trends could be harmful to corporate health Is it really true that organisations[...]

Stop fighting fires and start managing change

2 April 2012

It’s treating the root cause of rigidity that really matters For most of the past[...]

Turning virtualisation into advantage

28 March 2012

Freedom to move, not bogging things down The road to hell, they say, is paved[...]

Banging your head against the invisible wall

23 March 2012

Has virtualisation really moved the game forward? OK, so you’ve virtualised a bunch of servers[...]

Martha Bennett and Kieran Hines at Intellect

16 March 2012

In this podcast interview, Martha Bennett shares her thoughts on some of the key challenges[...]

Virtualisation roadblocks: From sprawl to stall

15 March 2012

A prompt to move to the next level of management? The early days of x86[...]

IT financing is not a deal saver

8 March 2012

But it is a great sales tool if introduced early enough (This article was originally[...]

Is Big Data just Big Hype?

5 March 2012

If the deluge of headlines and vendor marketing materials is anything to go by, ‘big[...]

SaaS based Email and Office Productivity

28 February 2012

Over the course of many months there has been considerable coverage of ‘Cloud’ based office[...]

Understanding desktop virtualisation

27 February 2012

Looking after an organisation’s estate of desktop and laptop PCs can be a difficult and[...]

User Virtualization – Moving beyond device-centric computing

27 February 2012

When business IT was young and channel partners had plenty of hardware margins to play[...]

Information management: technology investment pays off

21 February 2012

Obtaining budget for new technology investments can be a difficult exercise at the best of[...]

Storage Through the Looking Glass

13 February 2012

Talk of storage technology makes business people yawn, but the state of the storage infrastructure[...]

The Business of Electronic Data Storage

12 February 2012

By Dale Vile, Tony Lock and Martha Bennett Introduction Storage and retrieval of electronic data[...]

Beyond device-centric computing: Breaking barriers to enable productivity

7 February 2012

In this webinar, Martha Bennett of Freeform Dynamics and Harry Labana of AppSense discuss the[...]

Rising to the information management challenge

3 February 2012

In a world of increasingly devolved decision making, few would disagree that it’s important to[...]

Getting to grips with SMB resilience

30 January 2012

It is recognised across almost all companies that disasters or major events can interrupt business[...]

Winners and losers in the information race

25 January 2012

The mainstream media generally portrays the financial services industry as being in a total mess,[...]

RIM changes its leadership, but not its course

24 January 2012

On January 23rd, 2012, Research in Motion (RIM) announced Thorsten Heins as President and CEO.[...]

The secrets of effective disaster recovery

19 January 2012

There’s no magic bullet, but there’s a formula Many IT and business executives groan when[...]

Amazon AWS Direct Connect hits the UK

18 January 2012

Last week was extremely busy, so the first I heard of Amazon’s Direct Connect service[...]

Closing the SMB security gap

17 January 2012

It’s got the point where the majority of small and medium businesses (SMBs) take the[...]

SaaS based Email and Office Productivity Tools

12 January 2012

If you have an old email server in need of an upgrade or have calls[...]

Operating Models in Context

11 January 2012

By Dale Vile Change is a fact of life in business, but it’s generally not[...]

Enterprise social media revisited

10 January 2012

Over the last three or four years, many have been advocating the use of social[...]

Unlock the business value of your information

31 December 2011

Stakeholders are increasingly looking to get information ’on demand’ to regulatory bodies; seeking more complex[...]

Supporting user-centric computing

18 December 2011

User virtualization can make life easier for IT and end users alike Few would dispute[...]

Bridging the information gap

29 November 2011

The pace at which modern business tends to move has resulted in a situation where[...]

Building tech for the flexible worker

24 November 2011

Remote workers need support and training. The IT department needs to secure their devices and[...]

Big data in Context

22 November 2011

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – TheRegister:IntelAcademy, 22nd November 2011 Presenter(s) – Martha[...]

Moving Information Management Forwards

17 November 2011

By Tony Lock & Dale Vile Locating and accessing information required to run the business[...]

The storage boom and bust cycle

3 November 2011

More data more often than not means more disks. It was ever thus – but[...]

The consumerisation of IT: it’s a trickle, not a tide, but you still need to be ready

2 November 2011

If media headlines and vendor claims are to be believed, organisations today are faced with[...]

IT is the least of the problems – but can it improve business change?

25 October 2011

A lot of time and column inches have been spent over the years looking at[...]

Clouds for hire

20 October 2011

Is it effective to build out a network infrastructure to handle all workloads, rather than[...]

Challenging the big change agenda

18 October 2011

Marketing people and management consultants love the words ‘transformation’ and ‘innovation’. As you listen to[...]

A View from Above the Clouds

14 October 2011

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – IAP Symposium, 14th October 2011 Presenter(s) –[...]

The Consumerisation of IT (Slides)

11 October 2011

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – VMUG Meeting, Leeds, October 2011 Presenter(s) –[...]

The Consumerisation of IT

10 October 2011

With so many people excited about ‘bring your own device’ and easily accessible cloud services,[...]

Use of social media by analysts and analyst relations professionals

9 October 2011

I recently had the pleasure of attending an event run by the Institute of Industry[...]

Defining the Business Change Agenda

7 October 2011

Transformation and innovation are often worthy objectives for change initiatives, but business people tell us[...]

The Business Information Illusion

6 October 2011

By Dale Vile KEY POINTS The pace of business today dictates devolved management and decision-making[...]

Will SaaS make you more efficient?

28 September 2011

SaaS might give you more availability, it might cut your capital costs, and it might[...]

User productivity: Achievable goal, or mission impossible?

5 September 2011

The role – and limits – of technology as an enabler of productivity gains ‘Productivity’,[...]

Rumours of the PC’s death are greatly exaggerated

31 August 2011

By Martha Bennett If recent headlines are anything to go by, the days of the[...]

The fog of software licensing: dissatisfaction reigns – even in clouds

30 August 2011

There are some things in life that you just have to get on with, and[...]

Don’t be fooled

19 August 2011

By Tony Lock If one were to believe even a tenth of the marketing messages[...]

The importance of mutual understanding: A faster track to business alignment and satisfied users

15 August 2011

Here at Freeform Dynamics we’re renowned for advocating a service centric approach to IT. The[...]

Making the most of licence flexibility

15 August 2011

A few months ago we highlighted the difficulties that many companies have when it comes[...]

End User Productivity Revisited

5 August 2011

Despite the plethora of ‘productivity solutions’ available from IT suppliers, why is it that real[...]

Software Licensing and Subscription

2 August 2011

By Tony Lock KEY FINDINGS Few organisations know what software they are using The vast[...]

Are you slaving away on the wrong projects?

2 August 2011

Get your priorities straight One of the hardest decisions that the IT department faces was[...]

The impact of Cloud on IT

26 July 2011

By Andrew Buss and Dale Vile KEY POINTS Cloud is complementary to existing IT infrastructure[...]

End-to-end service assurance

25 July 2011

It may not always seem like it, but wherever IT is responsible for providing applications[...]

Complexity killed the IT quality of service …

19 July 2011

“Ring, ring…” “IT support. How can I help you?” “The system’s really slow. It’s taking[...]

Service management: we are all judged on service delivery

18 July 2011

All IT departments are judged on the basis of service delivery, whether they work that[...]

The how and why of virtualising core business applications

12 July 2011

When it come to virtualisation and private cloud, it seems that IT is happy to[...]

Marketing, selling and listening: essential elements of the IT skills set

4 July 2011

There’s nothing new in the concept of IT marketing or selling itself to the business,[...]

Cloud Connectivity

30 June 2011

By Andrew Buss KEY POINTS Connectivity is not widely perceived to be a major barrier[...]

Apples and Oranges – Are people really comparing like with like on the question of Mac versus Windows?

30 June 2011

A couple of weeks ago, I had occasion to spend some time on a 4-5[...]

Does Office 365 keep its promises?

29 June 2011

Running your email and office applications in the cloud is not a new idea; Google[...]

Business adoption of mobile devices

24 June 2011

By Dale Vile Some of the most rapid and exciting developments in technology are taking[...]

Agile Development – The reality behind the philosophy

24 June 2011

Business people often complain that IT projects take too long and deliver results that fall[...]

Cloud today, tomorrow, not yet

21 June 2011

Given all the hype and conjecture recently, we could be forgiven for thinking that we[...]

Cloud Computing Checkpoint

17 June 2011

By Dale Vile KEY POINTS Views of cloud computing are wide, varied and often contradictory[...]

Licensing in the virtual age

14 June 2011

By Andrew Buss Having sat through countless vendor cloud pitches, there seems to be an[...]

Mobile Computing Checkpoint

9 June 2011

By Dale Vile & Andrew Buss KEY FINDINGS Tales of the laptop PC’s death are[...]

Consumerism and productivity Part 1: Do users really know what technology is best for business?

8 June 2011

Let me put my cards on the table. I do not, repeat not, subscribe to[...]

Consumerism and productivity Part 2: How to deal with employees’ devices in the workplace

7 June 2011

In the first part of this discussion, I covered the hard reality of consumerisation and[...]

Information is a right, not a privilege

29 May 2011

By Dale Vile Organisations today rely on effective management of business performance at all levels.[...]

Compliance: The legal landscape and how to navigate it

24 May 2011

Every IT professional recognises the importance of securing the IT systems on which critical business[...]

Cloud and Storage

16 May 2011

By Tony Lock The topic of “Cloud” has not escaped the attention of anyone in[...]

The other enterprise desktop

16 May 2011

There are few topics in the IT industry that are more divisive than the option[...]

Rationalising software licencing in the virtual age

3 May 2011

It was only a few weeks ago that we raised the topic of software licencing[...]

A road warrior’s experience with the iPad

21 April 2011

Tales from 10 months of trial and error I have now been an iPad user[...]

The Royal Mail moves to the cloud

18 April 2011

Private cloud is a nice theory, but what does it translate to in practice when[...]

Negotiating your way to a dynamic IT environment

12 April 2011

That thorny question of software licenses The principle of server virtualisation is now pretty well[...]

Cloud Service Categories

8 April 2011

There are many ways to classify cloud service offerings. The most basic is to relate[...]

The workload challenge

7 April 2011

Today, IT Infrastructure is evolving at a tremendous pace. The Mainframe computer, now often referred[...]

Decision criteria for open source and proprietary software

5 April 2011

The selection of operating systems was once one of the major decisions IT managers had[...]

The mainframe comes of age … again?

31 March 2011

Economic pressure has led to more finance directors and CFOs scrutinising expenditure to a painstaking[...]

Visualisation into action

30 March 2011

Do you have lots of data but find it difficult to work out what it[...]

PaaS potential and practicality: This is a hype-free zone

25 March 2011

One of the advantages of using Platform as a Service (PaaS) to develop and deploy[...]

Getting to grips with software licencing

17 March 2011

IT is becoming more embedded within the business, with more use of IT for business[...]

The realities of SaaS and Security

15 March 2011

With upgrades to Windows 7 and Office 2010 high on the agenda, questions are being[...]

Data Centre Orchestration webcast

8 March 2011

In this Webinar Tony Lock, Tim Phillips (The Register), Graham Rushton (Avenade) and Greg Charman[...]

Where is the immediate cloud opportunity?

3 March 2011

Let’s get specific Pinning the term ‘cloud computing’ down to a single definition is not[...]

Cloud computing in context

23 February 2011

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – BCS Meeting, Leeds, July 2010 Presenter(s) –[...]

The Consumerisation of IT

23 February 2011

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – BCS Meeting, Leeds, October 2010 Presenter(s) –[...]

The automation conundrum

15 February 2011

By Andrew Buss Our research tells us that the move to virtualisation on volume servers[...]

Who say Management and SaaS don’t mix?

2 February 2011

Management in IT is a challenge for many organisations. Integrated management is a tough nut[...]

Applied Desktop Virtualisation

28 January 2011

By Tony Lock & Dale Vile KEY FINDINGS With desktop refresh now on the agenda,[...]

Buying into the cloud

28 January 2011

A lot of companies are reporting that individual departments and even business users are adopting[...]

Next generation systems management

15 January 2011

By Andrew Buss Complex environments undergo continual upheaval. For many businesses, although the IT infrastructure[...]

Desktop Virtualisation

4 January 2011

By Tony Lock Desktop management has long been an almost “taboo” subject in most businesses.[...]

Moving beyond consolidation: The steps towards a private cloud

10 December 2010

Many companies have essentially completed their migration to server virtualisation. The next challenge is moving[...]

Why does information management matter?

8 December 2010

Getting the right information to the right people at the right time sounds like a[...]

What is the point of End Point Protection?

29 November 2010

How we should be protecting our PCs Security threats have existed for almost as long[...]

Desktop virtualisation: One size doesn’t fit all

26 November 2010

The many solutions to be found under the term ’Desktop Virtualisation’ have been vigorously promoted[...]

The changing shape of the desktop

24 November 2010

By Josie Sephton, Dale Vile & Tony Lock KEY FINDINGS The desktop environment is ready[...]

Working smarter, not harder: An alternative to the 25-hour day

20 November 2010

The word ‘productivity’ is widely used in the industry, but what does it actually mean?[...]

We spent how much? Budget overruns needn’t be normal

17 November 2010

According to the grassroots campaigning group the Taxpayers’ Alliance, overruns in UK government IT projects[...]

When IT projects go right – How not to stuff it up

15 November 2010

There is a vast difference between running a project and running one successfully, as a[...]

IT Services and Systems Management

11 November 2010

By Andrew Buss KEY FINDINGS The passive evolution of systems and tools has led to[...]

What’s the real deal on cloud?

10 November 2010

Back to basics on what cloud computing is really about – what’s real, what’s not,[...]

Shaping your next desktop upgrade

1 November 2010

The economic downturn caused many companies to delay their desktop and notebook refresh plans, but[...]

Lithium helped the penny to drop

22 October 2010

A more tangible take on social CRM While I go about my business as an[...]

Applied Cloud Computing

22 October 2010

By Dale Vile and Tony Lock Introduction The term ‘cloud computing’ is one of the[...]

The True Cost of Desktop Support

20 October 2010

Desktop support is something every organisation does using a variety of tools, people and processes,[...]

CIOs and ’Data Protection’

18 October 2010

By Tony Lock The rapid growth in the amount of stored data means that the[...]

Data encryption adoption represents a significant opportunity

8 October 2010

By Andrew Buss Data protection continues to be a top of mind subject for many[...]

Are you delivering IT and creating wiggle room?

23 September 2010

According to Freeform Dynamics research, many IT departments are seeking to become better aligned with[...]

Automation – one step closer to lights out?

23 September 2010

In an earlier article in this workshop we considered the challenges associated with procuring system[...]

Mixing mobile business with pleasure

16 September 2010

By Josie Sephton The issue of personal use of company mobiles, and its cost to[...]

The Time has come for “Chargeback”

10 September 2010

Ever since the industrial revolution there have been periods when businesses have prospered simply on[...]

Managing IT and business risk in the times of eroding enterprise boundaries

27 August 2010

Managing risk in business has always been more of an art form than a science.[...]

Systems monitoring: what’s possible, and what really happens

27 August 2010

IT increasingly plays a pivotal role in business processes. The importance of systems to the[...]

Improving Systems Agility

20 August 2010

By Dale Vile One of the most common complaints heard from business people about the[...]

Life after cloud computing

19 August 2010

By Dale Vile Have you ever wondered what we will be left with once the[...]

Managing a virtual desktop environment

10 August 2010

In a previous article in this series we highlighted growing interest in deploying virtual desktop[...]

Desktop virtualisation: why, how, and how much?

9 August 2010

As anyone who has started down the path will confirm, desktop virtualisation is not a[...]

How can IT shake off the negativity? Get feedback from the business

3 August 2010

Usually when we think of IT performance, we focus on the physical. We ask questions[...]

Collaboration, complexity and compliance

22 July 2010

The trouble with some terms we use in IT is that they take on a[...]

The significance of Salesforce.com’s ’Chatter’

21 July 2010

Salesforce.com to me is a bit like the boy who cried ‘Wolf!”. Every press release[...]

Thinking Beyond the Clouds

9 July 2010

By Jon Collins and Dale Vile A number of trends are having an impact on[...]

Sugaring the pill

7 July 2010

Apple, as a computer company, has been focused on the consumer market. It has paid[...]

Are your project timescales shrinking?

2 July 2010

When did the two-year project lifecycle die? In my head, I put it at just[...]

Videoconferencing: coming to a company near you?

1 July 2010

This article is hosted on an external website. Please click here to view it in[...]

The Business of Interoperability

30 June 2010

By Dale Vile and Jon Collins ‘Interoperability’ is a widely used word in IT industry[...]

BI 2010 – the state of play

30 June 2010

By Jon Collins Information continues to grow, and yet the challenges we face in managing[...]

Let’s hear it for service centricity

29 June 2010

An elderly lady attended a public lecture given by an astrophysicist on how the Earth[...]

iPad: First impressions of a sceptic

26 June 2010

Anyone who has followed my jottings over the years will know that I am an[...]

Bring your own PC

23 June 2010

The rise of ‘consumer’ expectations in the workforce is driving some organisations to think up[...]

Unified communications in context?

23 June 2010

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could wipe the slate clean and install a brand[...]

Getting on top of change management

22 June 2010

One of the first articles I ever had to write as an analyst was about[...]

Putting ’I’ back in ’CIO’

21 June 2010

Nice sound bite, but does the spirit make sense? On a few occasions recently I[...]

Making sense of the new business of IT

21 June 2010

You may be heartily sick of hearing that ‘change is the only constant’, ‘everything’s getting[...]

Videoconferencing: coming to a company near you?

7 June 2010

It is probably fair to say that the likelihood of videoconferencing becoming mainstream in the[...]

Delivering on data governance – Making sure IT’s glass is half full

4 June 2010

Data governance can be dismissed as ‘applied common sense’, or balked at as an impossible[...]

The software licensing minefield

2 June 2010

Software vendors make their money from licensing software for individual and corporate use. From the[...]

Evolution of Hosted Server Computing

1 June 2010

by Dale Vile There has been much talk and activity in the industry recently around[...]

Cloud Confusion

1 June 2010

By Tony Lock In this article we revisit some research conducted in 2008, covering perceptions[...]

Driving value from IT

27 May 2010

Audience – IT decision makers Occasion – CA Mainframe Madness May 2010 Presenter(s) – Jon[...]

Focus on business challenges, not technology innovations

21 May 2010

The IT industry really does bring out the best and worst traits of human nature.[...]

Ensuring availability in a changing world

20 May 2010

Roughly speaking, availability management is what your business does to ensure IT services stay up[...]

The joy of software licensing on the desktop

18 May 2010

One of the joys of working as a manager of desktop and laptop systems is[...]

Service management best practice. Is your future really in a book?

14 May 2010

Whenever IT best practice for service management gets a mention, we tend to think of[...]

It’s the data that drives us. An alternative view of software rationalisation and retirement.

14 May 2010

In business, the phrase ‘change is constant’ may be a tad overused but it is[...]

Using systems management tools in IT security

11 May 2010

Every IT professional recognises the importance of securing the IT systems that are now at[...]

But is that really cloud? Check out this survey

7 May 2010

Some have accused me of being a cloud computing sceptic, and it’s true that I[...]

But is that really cloud computing?

6 May 2010

By Dale Vile The term ‘cloud computing’ is in routine use within the IT industry.[...]

IT governance: Making the case without cutting your throat

6 May 2010

‘IT governance’ sounds like a grandiose idea, but what is it? In simplest terms, it’s[...]

What’s in store for availability management?

5 May 2010

Roughly speaking, availability management is what your organisation does to ensure IT services stay up[...]

Search: What are you looking for?

5 May 2010

By Martin Atherton In the very real world of business IT, the concepts, topics and[...]

Building high availability into IT

4 May 2010

What does ‘high availability’ actually mean in the context of IT today? We’ve written elsewhere[...]

Mobile users and personal devices

30 April 2010

Business today is a very different beast to that of just five years ago, and[...]

Managing the distributed workforce

30 April 2010

While the principles of managing a distributed workforce may not have changed much, user expectations[...]

Organisational change and IT

28 April 2010

It is great to theorise about all the good things IT can bring. Indeed, a[...]

The IT management dashboard

27 April 2010

Our research in the IT management domain has helped us establish a few basic truths.[...]

The user view of IT delivery

22 April 2010

It would be odd to hear from an IT pro who didn’t have ‘demanding users’,[...]

Architecting for IT service delivery

22 April 2010

A few years back I was involved in a project that turned out far more[...]

Supporting the teleworkers: Redux

21 April 2010

The issue of providing IT support to home-based users always attracts a lot of responses[...]

Should all hard drives be encrypted?

19 April 2010

Given the origins of computing in the coding and decoding of messages, it’s fair to[...]

What does YOUR IT crystal ball say?

19 April 2010

Here’s a question for you. Is change really afoot in the way your organisation ‘does’[...]

Change management in x86 server estates

16 April 2010

Changes to the IT environment are the source of some of the biggest headaches for[...]

Is IT service delivery really changing?

12 April 2010

The new world we’ve been hearing about for years is slowly drifting into focus. Globally[...]

Business Communications in Context

7 April 2010

by Josie Sephton and Dale Vile The proliferation of communications channels has set expectations around[...]

Are CIOs ready to use cloud computing?

29 March 2010

By Tony Lock Seldom in the history of IT have CIOs faced a marketing barrage[...]

What personality is your IT department?

26 March 2010

Over the years I’ve spent quite a lot of time thinking about the idea of[...]

Dedication to regulation

11 March 2010

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

Virtualisation and Security

1 March 2010

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

IT trends: Don’t get distracted by the spaniel

23 February 2010

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

Infrastructure Consolidation

12 February 2010

By Tony Lock Research results obtained by Freeform Dynamics towards the end of 2009 show[...]

Can IT Financing and Management Models Survive IT Change?

3 February 2010

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?

7 January 2010

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

Social wariness is wise for business

20 November 2009

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

Mid-market management software

9 November 2009

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

Does business social networking really need IT?

9 November 2009

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

What is service management?

15 October 2009

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

Evolution of Dynamic IT

12 October 2009

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

Pricing the fluffy stuff

7 October 2009

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

Social computing – start small, think big

11 September 2009

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

Give workers a say in corporate IT

9 September 2009

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

The Register Buzz Report

6 August 2009

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

Perception versus reality in IT

30 July 2009

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

Making sense of energy

30 July 2009

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

The strategic upside of power accountability

3 July 2009

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

Making IT Work In The Real World

2 July 2009

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

Moments of Need

18 June 2009

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

SOA and Growth Markets

18 May 2009

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

BT and Cloud

18 May 2009

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

Clarity on Cloud

14 May 2009

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

Challenging the cloud revolution

8 May 2009

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

The business value of social software

7 May 2009

by David Tebbutt At Lotus/IBM’s Lotusphere the words ’business value’ were repeatedly uttered by keynote[...]

A coherent approach to customer satisfaction

1 May 2009

by Josie Sephton The need for greater customer centricity is an increasingly high priority for[...]

The Economic Downturn and IT Service Delivery

27 April 2009

by Tony Lock The economic outlook for many organisations has taken a decidedly frosty turn,[...]

The Business Service Management Imperative

22 April 2009

by Jon Collins What is Business Service Management, anyway? Business Service Management (BSM) has been[...]

WAN Optimisation

10 April 2009

There is a lot of talk concerning ’Cloud services’. But what are some of the[...]

Enterprise 2.0 and the issue of workforce composition

30 December 2008

Following on from my previous post on the importance of social media enthusiasts breaking out[...]

IT Delivery in the Downturn

22 December 2008

by Dale Vile and Tony Lock KEY POINTS Most IT professionals see challenges on the[...]

BPM: lessons from the real world

31 October 2008

by Martin Atherton, Jon Collins and Dale Vile Is business process management a cure-all for[...]

Taking cloud to the mainstream

17 October 2008

by Dale Vile The hype around cloud computing is pretty intensive. The IT industry and[...]

Service Orientation in Business

31 July 2008

by Jon Collins KEY FINDINGS While change is a certainty in business, some still struggle[...]

Secure USB

28 July 2008

by Jon Collins When the USB standard was first launched, few would have imagined the[...]

Risk and Resilience

28 June 2008

The application availability gamble The modern business is highly dependent on IT. When systems go[...]

New technologies, new risks

by Jon Collins The future of IT security seems like a straightforward discussion – focused,[...]

Cloud Computing: Silver lining…

by David Tebbutt Since so many people are talking about cloud computing, it really wouldn’t[...]

Why IT must escape the belt-tightening

by Martin Atherton Negative vibes have a habit of becoming reality. The higher cost of[...]

Systems management hits impasse