Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Recent Posts
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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
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 ...
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Google Calendar auto-adds shared meeting notes
- Freeform Dynamics 13 Oct 2021 -
Is it a Suite, Package, Bundle or Platform?
- Freeform Dynamics 08 Oct 2021 -
Is ‘suite’ becoming a dirty word?
- Freeform Dynamics 07 Oct 2021 -
Windows 11: this ‘feel good’ update could actually help IT pros
- Freeform Dynamics 06 Oct 2021 -
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
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 ...
People have been selling collections of products and tools for centuries, and with the advent of commercial IT and off-the-shelf software, IT suppliers were quick to follow. There are various ways ...
How much attention do you pay to the pros and cons of software and service bundling? I was reminded of the topic on a recent briefing call with Dave Russell, Veeam’s VP of enterprise strategy, ...
Much has been written about Windows 11, and many YouTube videos have been published. If you want a detailed walkthrough of the good, the bad, the confusing and the contentious, you’ll find no ...
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
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 ...