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Where vendors too often go wrong: SMBs need enterprise-grade IT too
- Freeform Dynamics 28 Sep 2021 -
Throwback Thursday: Remember when Agile was treated with suspicion?
- Freeform Dynamics 02 Sep 2021 -
Throwback Thursday: Is IT investment handled better now than a decade ago?
- Freeform Dynamics 19 Aug 2021
For far too long now, many vendors seem to have assumed that the IT requirements of small and mid-sized businesses are less complex than those of larger organisations. As a consequence, many of the ...
When we researched the topic of Agile development back in 2008, it was against a backdrop of widespread suspicion of the approach. While the hype was beginning to build around iterative development ...
People like to think that the way IT works with business has changed dramatically in the past 13 years, but have the important challenges faced back then really been addressed? This week, we look ...
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The critical importance and utility of the modern mainframe
- Freeform Dynamics 11 Aug 2021 -
Throwback Thursday: from virtual desktops to Chromebooks and the work-anywhere web
- Freeform Dynamics 15 Jul 2021 -
What’s your contingency plan for when ‘online’ stops working?
- Freeform Dynamics 12 Jul 2021 -
Zoning in on better storage performance and capacity
- Freeform Dynamics 07 Jul 2021 -
Throwback Thursday: The business change agenda
- Freeform Dynamics 10 Jun 2021 -
The allure of the log-in-anywhere desktop
- Freeform Dynamics 07 Jun 2021 -
Throwback Thursday: Even data fragmentation has gone virtual
- Freeform Dynamics 20 May 2021
IT resilience and security is essential to today's businesses, so dependent are they on their IT systems. For some of those who have been around this industry more than a decade or two, this raises ...
How has desktop virtualisation evolved since 2009, when we reported that “virtualisation is here,” but that it was still “early days for mainstream adoption” on the desktop? As our contribution to ...
Last week I had the misfortune to spend just over an hour and a half listening to a crackly loop of recorded announcements. They were remarkably dull, even before I’d heard them several dozen ...
The fundamentals of data storage are undergoing a significant evolution, and many – if not most – IT administrators won’t even have noticed yet. Called zoned storage, it’s a shift away from host ...
It might come as a shock to some people in marketing to find that business transformation, or "business change" as I prefer to call it, is neither new nor driven solely by digital transformation ...
We humans are suckers for immediacy. Once we realise it is possible to not to have to wait – and that we have the power to make it happen – then to paraphrase Freddie Mercury, it’s “I want it here, ...
If there’s one thing that our report Storage Anywhere and Everywhere from eight years ago reminds us, it’s that the risks of uncontrolled data growth are nothing new. As our contribution to the bit ...
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Paying for IT
- Freeform Dynamics 18 May 2021 -
Of cats and clouds: a lifetime TCO question
- Freeform Dynamics 13 May 2021 -
Throwback Thursday – Data governance in software testing
- Freeform Dynamics 29 Apr 2021 -
Throwback Thursday: Private cloud in contexts old and new
- Freeform Dynamics 15 Apr 2021 -
Throwback Thursday: Mobile moments and the past left far behind
- Freeform Dynamics 01 Apr 2021
For much of IT history, your options for acquiring IT solutions were pretty limited. It was a choice between a one-off capital charge, combined with annual maintenance fees, and a three year lease ...
For better or worse, we are a cat household. Various moggies have come and gone over the years. These have mainly originated from shelters or people trying to offload excess kittens arising from ...
Data and information governance is extremely important today, perhaps even more so than it was in 2008, when Freeform Dynamics ran a study looking at what was being done to enhance capability in ...
What a difference a decade can make. When we looked at the world of private cloud almost a decade ago, it was a new idea to many people – so new, in fact, that we had to define it for them. In ...
We have looked at many reports from years ago that show that, whilst technology details may have moved on, many of the underlying factors haven’t changed very much. But this glance back to 2009 ...