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  • ‘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 ...

  • Striking a balance between risk and innovation: Lessons from an autonomous ship

    Dale Vile - Freeform Dynamics 25 Mar 2022
  • I wasn’t sure what to expect when I turned up for an event at the Historic Dockyards in Portsmouth, UK. The planned star of the show - an unmanned ship called Mayflower 400 - couldn’t actually be ...

  • Do you feel trapped by Microsoft?

    Dale Vile - Freeform Dynamics 24 Mar 2022
  • Thoughts on loosening Redmond’s grip on your business I started thinking about reducing my company’s dependency on Microsoft a few years ago. Contributing factors were frustration with the ...

  • Hybrid working isn’t turning out as expected

    Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 10 Mar 2022
  • Last year, as companies recognized both the value of face-to-face interaction and the fact that not everyone wants to go back to the office five days a week, the concept of hybrid working went ...

  • Is the commodity server bandwagon running out of steam?

    Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 10 Jan 2022
  • The term “paradigm shift” gets flung about far too much in IT, but we may be at one of those few times that genuinely deserves it. For decades now, specialised hardware devices have been losing ...

  • One SSD to ruler them all

    Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 27 Dec 2021
  • If you’re at all curious about what comes next in enterprise storage devices, you need to know about EDSFF, the Enterprise and Data Centre SSD Form Factor – better known as the “ruler” format. ...

  • Having trouble overcoming the S/4HANA confidence gap?

    Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 13 Dec 2021
  • As John Lennon and Yoko Ono didn't quite sing, "Give POC a chance!" If you’re one of the many SAP users who’s yet to migrate to S/4HANA, we understand your hesitation. It’s potentially a big ...

  • Why does ransomware still work?

    Bryan Betts - Freeform Dynamics 30 Nov 2021
  • As someone who first encountered ransomware during the last millennium – thankfully at second-hand – and has been writing about it for almost as long, I sometimes find myself amazed by the high ...