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Making IT sustainability more objective and actionable

Dale Vile 14 March 2024 No Comments

I’ve heard a lot of pitches from technology companies on how they can help customers achieve their sustainability goals, and many of these follow a familiar pattern. They start with…

It’s Time to Raise the Bar on Observability

Tony Lock 2 February 2024 No Comments

Observability has come a long way in the last 30 years

Can contributing to open source get you a job?

Bryan Betts 18 January 2024 No Comments

Could voluntary work on open source projects be a stepping stone to employment?

AI-generated image of money going into an AI machine

What does “Investment in Generative AI” actually mean?

Dale Vile 12 January 2024 No Comments

I’ve found myself in a number of conversations recently where the discussion has turned to the speed at which organisations are investing in generative AI. More and more, however, I…

NPUs and GPUs have many more uses than just chatbots and GenAI

Why laptops and other edge devices are being AI-enabled

Bryan Betts 27 December 2023 No Comments

Why do we need dedicated AI engines in laptops, and especially in the ultrathin laptops that AMD, Qualcomm and Intel are all targeting with their latest processors? What’s the motivation…

A factory technician at Intel’s Penang Assembly Test facility displays Intel Core Ultra processors before they are shipped from the factory

Why Intel has joined the race for the AI-enabled laptop

Bryan Betts 22 December 2023 No Comments

A new AI battlefield is opening up, not among all the GPU ‘farms’ in data centres around the world, but out at the network edge and in particular on the…

Broadcom swings its axe at VMware

Bryan Betts 7 December 2023 No Comments

What a difference a week can make. The dust had barely settled on Broadcom’s $69bn acquisition of VMware before Broadcom, much as its critics had predicted, blew it all up in the…

Broadcom finally swallows VMware: what now?

Bryan Betts 29 November 2023 No Comments

The news that Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has finally gone through, after more than a year of uncertainty, will have relieved a lot of people. Even more of a relief,…

Custom chatbots and model gardens: putting Private AI to work

Bryan Betts 23 November 2023 No Comments

Part 2: More to think about It’s essential to decide where to run your Private AI – or who you will get to run it for you, in some cases…

Understanding the rise and role of Private AI

Bryan Betts 23 November 2023 No Comments

Part 1: AI hype vs fear and doubt The leakage of proprietary IP and other data has been one of the biggest corporate fears around generative AI since the launch…

Can steel fences halt the march of cyber?

Bryan Betts 12 October 2023 No Comments

Cyber: for some, it’s a prefix that conjures up images of Dr Who’s silvery cyborg opponents. For others, it’s the equally science-fiction but very different image of Neuromancer-style cyberpunk hackers, and…

A straightforward look at SAP master data automation

Bryan Betts 4 October 2023 No Comments

If you’re knee-deep in the world of SAP and data management, you almost certainly know the pain of dirty data. It’s inaccurate, inconsistent, and a real headache when you’re trying…

CIO perceptions of vendor AI marketing

Dale Vile 7 September 2023 No Comments

With all the recent press coverage, it’s not surprising to see IT vendors clamouring to message around their AI creds. In a survey by Freeform Dynamics and the CIO WaterCooler, a bunch of…

Time to sound the alarm as AI hype catches fire

Bryan Betts 3 August 2023 No Comments

One of the most worrying things that’s coming out of recent research

It’s time to look again at IT and Software Asset Management

Tony Lock 24 July 2023 No Comments

In the realm of IT administration, it’s all too easy to get stuck in familiar patterns

An AI crash is coming: don’t let it drag you down

Bryan Betts 19 July 2023 No Comments

All the signs are there that an AI crash is coming: overinflated claims and dodgy hype, a serious lack of expectation management, fears around privacy, ethics and fairness, over-enthusiastic amateurs…

Want to become a data-driven organisation? Start thinking differently about change management

Bryan Betts 14 June 2023 No Comments

Need a strong data strategy? Look for a CDO who’s a change manager and data diplomat

Just because it’s innovative, doesn’t make it good!

Dale Vile 16 May 2023 No Comments

One of my hobbyhorses at the moment is how words and adjectives that ought to be simply descriptive acquire notions of ‘good’ or ‘bad’, and there’s one example that I…

The key to future IT success is a switch to managing services, not systems

Tony Lock 5 May 2023 No Comments

For most of the history of commercial IT, system design has focused on meeting the availability, response time and security requirements of individual workloads. But technology and expectations have changed,…

Are tech vendors pulling their weight on fixing fragmented IT?

Bryan Betts 27 April 2023 No Comments

Many organisations have silo’d data and fragmented IT systems, but

Digital identity: the many images of you

Bryan Betts 10 April 2023 No Comments

More and more of the topics we deal with at Freeform Dynamics now also relate to digital identity. That’s no surprise, of course – digital identity is vital in this…

Trust: easy to lose, hard to recover

Bryan Betts 30 March 2023 No Comments

Here are just a few of the topics that my fellow Freeformers and I have enjoyed researching and writing about in recent years: network security, SD-WAN, digital identity, smart wallets,…

Does application modernisation mean what you think it means?

Bryan Betts 5 January 2023 No Comments

Most people in IT probably think they know what application modernisation is

Kubernetes and the open-source maintainer question

Bryan Betts 19 December 2022 No Comments

While much of October's KubeCon-CloudNativeCon North America

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