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The mainframe returns – as a platform for large-scale Linux
- Freeform Dynamics 12 Nov 2018 -
Last call for a European public cloud?
- Freeform Dynamics 05 Nov 2018 -
Industrial IoT makes your people more important, not less
- Freeform Dynamics 01 Nov 2018
There are several ways to build large scale Linux server environments, with x86 and public cloud being obvious ones. But there’s another option too, as I reminded myself when I caught up with Adam ...
Europe’s self-described No.1 ‘hyper-scale cloud provider’, OVH, held its 6th annual customer conference in Paris recently. Attendees got to meet the new CEO, Michel Paulin, and hear about the ...
The recent Industry of Things World conference in Berlin offered insights into the state of the much-hyped Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). At one end, big early adopters such as Airbus, ...
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Google has got serious about Enterprise IT
- Freeform Dynamics 24 Oct 2018 -
Cloud Foundry’s growth highlights open source success and the cracks in commercial licensing
- Freeform Dynamics 23 Oct 2018 -
When modern meetings don't work
- Freeform Dynamics 12 Sep 2018 -
What can Chromebooks offer the enterprise desktop market?
- Freeform Dynamics 07 Sep 2018 -
DevOps is wasted unless the business goes Agile too
- Freeform Dynamics 24 Aug 2018 -
Is IBM relevant to today’s mainstream?
- Freeform Dynamics 16 Aug 2018 -
A conference room for the future
- Freeform Dynamics 17 Jul 2018
Google has made a complete about-face on the enterprise. It took so long that if you were watching all the time you probably didn’t notice it, but it has turned through 180 degrees. Thinking back ...
Open source has crested the hill of enterprise acceptance. There's no longer the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) that there was around open source a few years ago, plus it's often a lot easier ...
Once upon a time, pretty much every meeting had a minute-taker – someone who kept notes, summarising who said what. These meeting minutes were circulated afterwards for comment and correction, and ...
If you’re an IT professional managing a large desktop estate or an end user with a Windows 10 PC, you’ll be aware that Windows is undergoing a tortuous transformation, with only enthusiasts and ...
When analysts and journalists write about Agile and DevOps, the focus is typically on the technology and infrastructure – what it means for software and systems development in an age when the ...
When IT vendors talk about the market, they tend to focus on how they would like the world to be rather than how it actually is. This often means they fail to connect as well as they could with the ...
In some ways, the recent completion of Plantronics’ $2 billion purchase of Polycom was more surprising for the amount paid than the fact that this is basically an audio headset supplier taking over ...
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Workplace software as an occupational hazard
- Freeform Dynamics 04 Jul 2018 -
Millennial versus Mature – who's the real IT security risk?
- Freeform Dynamics 29 Jun 2018 -
Enterprise AI: fiction and reality
- Freeform Dynamics 18 Jun 2018 -
Your PC is rooted and jailbroken: deal with it!
- Freeform Dynamics 18 Jun 2018 -
Xero highlights the role of the modern software ecosystem
- Freeform Dynamics 04 Jun 2018
The US Department of Labor has updated its Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. Known as 2018 SOC, government agencies use the system to classify workers and, with a bit of ...
Passwords have been the mainstay for securing applications, devices and the data they hold, pretty much ever since IT was invented. It’s an approach that has always had weaknesses though, mostly ...
If you are starting to suspect that the AI hype is overblown, and that it's just the latest term that marketing folk love to add to make their product sound more interesting, you are not alone. ...
One of the defining characteristics of the modern digital workplace is a Windows PC on every desk and a smartphone in every pocket. The ability to centrally discover, provision, deploy, update, and ...
I recently caught up with Gary Turner, co-founder and managing of director of Xero. I was interested in meeting him as Xero has a reputation as the company that broke all the rules of ...