Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics

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• Trust: easy to lose, hard to recover

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 23 Mar 2023

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, digital ...

• Dealing with the growing problem of edge and IoT sprawl

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 20 Dec 2022

Amidst all the hype regarding the massive growth potential for IoT and for edge computing in general, there is an elephant in the room, and that’s edge sprawl. It’s as if the edge evangelists are ...

• To maximise potential, mainframers must reach out and engage

  Dale Vile - Freeform Dynamics 14 Dec 2022

The team here at Freeform Dynamics has always had immense respect for the mainframe community, without whom big chunks of most developed economies would grind to a halt. That said, we sometimes ...

• Does application modernisation mean what you think it means?

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 23 Nov 2022

Most people in IT probably think they know what application modernisation is. For many it involves application refactoring - rebuilding the app using technologies such as containers and ...

• VMware's breadth and depth impresses, but is it still a safe bet?

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 22 Nov 2022

At the recent VMware Explore conference in Barcelona, there was an elephant in the hall: Broadcom. VMware execs spoke about the $61bn acquisition positively, confidently even. It would be business ...

• Kubernetes and the open-source maintainer question

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 07 Nov 2022

While much of last month’s KubeCon-CloudNativeCon North America was focused on specific software projects, case studies and tech challenges, there was a discernible undercurrent of concern. And it ...

• Digital identity and opening up the smartwallet

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 01 Nov 2022

When an 80 year-old relative asks you how she can use her phone to both pay for shopping and get her supermarket loyalty points, like her friends do, you know that digital wallets are a success. ...

• Has the cloud caught up with the mainframe?

  Tony Lock - Freeform Dynamics 28 Jul 2022

Yes, you read that right. For much of the last couple of decades, it's felt as if everyone has been talking about the impending demise of the mainframe, whilst simultaneously attempting to emulate ...

• What's up with Google's plan to supplant SMS and drive mobile e-commerce?

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 19 Jul 2022

Ask most people what RCS stands for, and you’ll probably get a blank look. For Google and the others backing this new mobile messaging standard - whose full name is Rich Communications Services - ...

• Like a teenager, Kubernetes looks almost grown-up, yet still a bit awkward and confused

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 24 May 2022

Platform: that’s the key word that sprung to mind after attending Kubecon-CloudNativeCon Europe 2022, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in Valencia last week. As in, Kubernetes ...

• Frustrated with your company’s cloud obsession? What goes around, comes around

  Dale Vile - Freeform Dynamics 12 May 2022

Many of you reading this will be familiar with the experience of having to bite your lip as you watch your organisation pursue a ‘cloud first’ agenda in an almost religious manner.  You know that ...

• HP Inc's Poly opportunity: look beyond devices and software to a real collaboration strategy

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 09 May 2022

Could its takeover of workspace collaboration specialist Poly turn HP Inc into a truly open and enterprise-grade collaboration giant? It certainly puts all the hardware in place - multimedia ...

• ‘Traditional’ is not a dirty word

  Dale Vile - Freeform Dynamics 03 May 2022

Sometimes ‘new’ and ‘disruptive’ really doesn’t make sense As an industry analyst, I take a lot of briefings from IT vendors and service providers. Most of these begin with a spokesperson framing ...

• Singing the key management blues

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 22 Apr 2022

We need cryptographic keys, but who is going to manage them? How do you make an obscure topic like cryptographic key management interesting? And can you then persuade people to move this security ...

• Citrix and Microsoft: who’s really leading the transformation agenda?

  Dale Vile - Freeform Dynamics 12 Apr 2022

Citrix loves Microsoft and Microsoft loves Citrix - OK, maybe I’m exaggerating to make a point, but that’s the gist of the official lines you get from both companies. But looking in from the ...