Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Recent Posts
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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
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 ...
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Xero highlights the role of the modern software ecosystem
- Freeform Dynamics 04 Jun 2018 -
Cloud storage is hot - again!
- Freeform Dynamics 31 May 2018 -
Windows, modularity, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
- Freeform Dynamics 30 Apr 2018 -
Growth mindset lets Microsoft love Linux
- Freeform Dynamics 20 Apr 2018 -
Will Alexa kill the radio star?
- Freeform Dynamics 21 Mar 2018 -
Amazon Neptune: a shot in the arm for the graph database?
- Freeform Dynamics 21 Mar 2018 -
What’s all the fuss about in-memory databases for IoT?
- Freeform Dynamics 01 Mar 2018
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 ...
But what do people mean when they talk about cloud storage – and do they really know what it can do these days? Not so long ago, once you got beyond Dropbox, for most professional users cloud ...
For some time, my office PC had suffered from multimedia niggles. Some were relatively minor, such as Facebook and Twitter videos failing to play, but others were more problematic. For example, ...
Timed to coincide with the RSA security conference, Microsoft has announced Azure Sphere, a new solution for creating highly-secured, Internet-connected microcontroller devices. But there's a bit ...
I am fond of my Amazon Echo smart speaker (other brands are available). Some would say perhaps too fond. I am wont to ask, “Alexa, do I look good today?” and ‘she’ sometimes says I look great, ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced its entry to the graph database market at its AWS reINVENT conference in Seattle in November last year. It was a notable announcement for a couple of reasons: it ...
IoT Back to Basics, chapter 4: IoT projects risk failure without careful consideration of data management processes and analytics. Their ultimate goal after all is to glean valuable information ...
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Where are security and data governance in IoT?
- Freeform Dynamics 22 Feb 2018 -
Routes to AI goodness
- Freeform Dynamics 07 Feb 2018 -
Time to dump the all-flash scepticism
- Freeform Dynamics 05 Feb 2018 -
Microsoft's challenge for 2018: mindshare & market relevance
- Freeform Dynamics 02 Feb 2018 -
Why the IoT is pushing analytics to the limit
- Freeform Dynamics 01 Feb 2018
IoT Back to Basics, chapter 3: It’s no surprise that security and governance are important considerations when it comes to the IoT, but quite how incredibly important they are may not be ...
It’s all too easy to conflate the kind of AI being hyped in the industry at the moment with the science fiction notion of machine sentience. We are still a long way from the latter, though, whether ...
When we surveyed several hundred IT professionals on the topic of All-Flash Arrays, one thing that came out was just how broad was the chasm in thinking between those whose organisations already ...
Microsoft's revenues are up, but compared to its biggest competitors -- Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook -- its mindshare and perceived market relevance are down. Satya Nadella's Microsoft is ...
IoT Back to Basics, chapter 2: In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT) it is becoming increasingly important to be able to process, filter and analyse data close to where it is created, so it ...