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Recent Posts
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‘Traditional’ is not a dirty word
- Freeform Dynamics 03 May 2022 -
Singing the key management blues
- Freeform Dynamics 22 Apr 2022 -
Citrix and Microsoft: who’s really leading the transformation agenda?
- Freeform Dynamics 12 Apr 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 ...
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 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 ...
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Striking a balance between risk and innovation: Lessons from an autonomous ship
- Freeform Dynamics 25 Mar 2022 -
Do you feel trapped by Microsoft?
- Freeform Dynamics 24 Mar 2022 -
Hybrid working isn’t turning out as expected
- Freeform Dynamics 10 Mar 2022 -
Is the commodity server bandwagon running out of steam?
- Freeform Dynamics 10 Jan 2022 -
One SSD to ruler them all
- Freeform Dynamics 27 Dec 2021 -
Having trouble overcoming the S/4HANA confidence gap?
- Freeform Dynamics 13 Dec 2021 -
Why does ransomware still work?
- Freeform Dynamics 30 Nov 2021
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Ransomware teaches us the importance of data protection
- Freeform Dynamics 29 Nov 2021 -
Has Windows 11 strengthened the case for Chromebooks?
- Freeform Dynamics 02 Nov 2021 -
Which is worse: noise, or the sound of silence?
- Freeform Dynamics 25 Oct 2021 -
Forget the 'free' software, the real value of open-source is the collaboration
- Freeform Dynamics 20 Oct 2021 -
Google Calendar auto-adds shared meeting notes
- Freeform Dynamics 13 Oct 2021
Several years ago, around the time that ransomware attacks started making the front pages of mainstream newspapers, not just in the IT press, I took part in a number of webcasts on the topic. The ...
I was left with two overriding thoughts following Microsoft’s recent launch of Windows 11 and the Windows 365 Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) proposition. My first thought was positive and pragmatic. ...
If you’re one of the many people who find offices too noisy, and think the best solution is to work from home instead, you’re quite possibly wrong. Here’s why – plus some ideas for better ...
It’s a cliché, but why are we still reinventing wheels? It is increasingly clear that the real value and opportunity in open-source isn’t so much the actual software itself, but the collaborative ...
If, like me, you often find yourself hunting for the notes you took in an online meeting – and then for those that your colleagues also took on the same call – you might like the new feature we ...