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• Can contributing to open source get you a job?

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 30 Nov 2023

Could voluntary work on open source projects be a stepping stone to employment? That was one of the intriguing prospects held out at the launch last week of a report with the slightly ominous title ...

• Broadcom finally swallows VMware: what now?

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 27 Nov 2023

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, though, is that we’re ...

• Custom chatbots and model gardens: putting Private AI to work

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 16 Nov 2023

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 - but that is just the start. Assuming that you also want ...

• Understanding the rise and role of Private AI

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 16 Nov 2023

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 of ChatGPT. Some companies even ...

• Can steel fences halt the march of cyber?

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 05 Oct 2023

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 ...

• A straightforward look at SAP master data automation

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 15 Sep 2023

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 to make ...

• CIO perceptions of vendor AI marketing

  Dale Vile - Freeform Dynamics 24 Aug 2023

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 IT ...

• Time to sound the alarm as AI hype catches fire

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 20 Jul 2023

One of the most worrying things that’s coming out of recent research, both ours and other people’s, is just how wildly different attitudes to AI – and especially generative AI – can be between ...

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

  Tony Lock - Freeform Dynamics 17 Jul 2023

In the realm of IT administration, it's all too easy to get stuck in familiar patterns, treating well-worn routines as unalterable. Asset management is a discipline that often falls prey to this ...

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

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 05 Jul 2023

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 ...

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

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 31 May 2023

Chatting with a client recently about the importance to a data-driven* organisation of having a good Chief Data Officer, or CDO, we turned to the topic of change management. But halfway through the ...

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

  Dale Vile - Freeform Dynamics 25 Apr 2023

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 think is quite dangerous. ...

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

  Tony Lock - Freeform Dynamics 21 Apr 2023

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 ...

• Are tech vendors pulling their weight on fixing fragmented IT?

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 20 Apr 2023

Many organisations have silo’d data and fragmented IT systems, but how much of this is due to the actions of IT vendors? Do vendors too often chase a quick buck, selling point solutions that don’t ...

• Digital identity: the many images of you

  Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 03 Apr 2023

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 online age. We have multiple ...