Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Recent Posts
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Don't let Covid-19 sicken your AI apps too
- Freeform Dynamics 27 May 2020 -
Is your perspective on outsourcing cloudy or clear?
- Freeform Dynamics 13 Mar 2020 -
Why settle for just one RTO and one RPO?
- Freeform Dynamics 03 Feb 2020
AI and machine learning might not be the first thing you think of when you start listing the impacts of lockdown, but the Covid-19 crisis is having effects far beyond the obvious ones. It came up ...
"Wasn't cloud just another name for outsourcing back then?" joked another guest in a recent briefing, as our host explained just how long ago he’d joined his company’s cloud division. We all ...
I think we can all agree that protecting data is important – perhaps even very important. So how come some still find it a daunting challenge to progress from that acknowledgement into tangible ...
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Consent and GDPR: at least get the basics right!
- Freeform Dynamics 20 Jan 2020 -
Business AI needs to focus on psychology, not technology
- Freeform Dynamics 17 Jan 2020 -
Edge computing could fail, if you only pay attention to the tail
- Freeform Dynamics 10 Jan 2020 -
Today's hybrid cloud looks more closed than open
- Freeform Dynamics 18 Dec 2019 -
Are your message threads tight or Slack?
- Freeform Dynamics 20 Nov 2019 -
DevOps needs more perspective and humility
- Freeform Dynamics 22 Aug 2019 -
Kubernetes catches up with operational reality
- Freeform Dynamics 12 Jul 2019
Why do companies find it so hard to get their heads around even the basics of GDPR compliance? I’m not even thinking here of techie stuff like not getting hacked, and not losing a laptop full of ...
There's no doubt now that AI works, and it can work very well indeed – as a technology, at least. And as one of our recent research projects reported, AI-based machine learning (ML) is increasingly ...
In its obsession with software development, all too often at the expense of other disciplines, the IT industry has let the tail wag the proverbial dog for more than ten years. Now, with the rise of ...
We’ve had convergence towards hybrid clouds and ‘universal’ applications, but now we are seeing divergence towards different cloud platforms, each offering its own flavour of interoperability. ...
Why doesn’t Slack want us to use threaded replies to messages? At least, that’s the impression I come away with from having used at least five Slacks, some for business collaboration and others for ...
DevOps started as a grass-roots movement led by practitioners. The motives were pure, and focused simply on finding better ways of doing things for the good of everyone involved in software ...
With Kubernetes now established in many organisations as the container orchestration platform of the future, are cracks already starting to show? Well, not exactly – but if I could pull out one ...
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Mea culpa: Trendy isn’t the same as important
- Freeform Dynamics 21 Jun 2019 -
Threat vs trust: the overlooked power of words
- Freeform Dynamics 07 Jun 2019 -
Beware the Application Complexity Monster
- Freeform Dynamics 24 May 2019 -
Growing fast, OpenStack shakes off old misconceptions
- Freeform Dynamics 15 May 2019 -
Hard drives that do their own data processing
- Freeform Dynamics 02 Apr 2019
I hate it when you realise that your point of reference has been unduly influenced by what’s currently trending rather than what’s really important. A recent briefing with Jim Liddle of Storage ...
Words have power – in particular, your choice of words modifies how your readers or listeners react to what you write or say. Politicians do this sort of thing all the time, swapping one word or ...
How many new applications, tools, devices, and cloud services have you introduced into your environment over the past few years? Now think about how much you got rid of over that same period, i.e. ...
One of the most interesting things about the recent Open Infrastructure Summit – the new name for the OpenStack users and friends conferences – in Denver was how many people wanted to know if I ...
It’s getting hard these days to find places where container technology doesn’t feature, but in a hard drive? Yet that’s what is being explored in one of the Storage Networking Industry Association ...