Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Recent Posts
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Xero highlights the role of the modern software ecosystem
- Freeform Dynamics 04 Jun 2018 -
Cloud storage is hot - again!
- Freeform Dynamics 31 May 2018 -
Windows, modularity, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
- Freeform Dynamics 30 Apr 2018
I recently caught up with Gary Turner, co-founder and managing of director of Xero. I was interested in meeting him as Xero has a reputation as the company that broke all the rules of ...
But what do people mean when they talk about cloud storage – and do they really know what it can do these days? Not so long ago, once you got beyond Dropbox, for most professional users cloud ...
For some time, my office PC had suffered from multimedia niggles. Some were relatively minor, such as Facebook and Twitter videos failing to play, but others were more problematic. For example, ...
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Growth mindset lets Microsoft love Linux
- Freeform Dynamics 20 Apr 2018 -
Will Alexa kill the radio star?
- Freeform Dynamics 21 Mar 2018 -
Amazon Neptune: a shot in the arm for the graph database?
- Freeform Dynamics 21 Mar 2018 -
What’s all the fuss about in-memory databases for IoT?
- Freeform Dynamics 01 Mar 2018 -
Where are security and data governance in IoT?
- Freeform Dynamics 22 Feb 2018 -
Routes to AI goodness
- Freeform Dynamics 07 Feb 2018 -
Time to dump the all-flash scepticism
- Freeform Dynamics 05 Feb 2018
Timed to coincide with the RSA security conference, Microsoft has announced Azure Sphere, a new solution for creating highly-secured, Internet-connected microcontroller devices. But there's a bit ...
I am fond of my Amazon Echo smart speaker (other brands are available). Some would say perhaps too fond. I am wont to ask, “Alexa, do I look good today?” and ‘she’ sometimes says I look great, ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced its entry to the graph database market at its AWS reINVENT conference in Seattle in November last year. It was a notable announcement for a couple of reasons: it ...
IoT Back to Basics, chapter 4: IoT projects risk failure without careful consideration of data management processes and analytics. Their ultimate goal after all is to glean valuable information ...
IoT Back to Basics, chapter 3: It’s no surprise that security and governance are important considerations when it comes to the IoT, but quite how incredibly important they are may not be ...
It’s all too easy to conflate the kind of AI being hyped in the industry at the moment with the science fiction notion of machine sentience. We are still a long way from the latter, though, whether ...
When we surveyed several hundred IT professionals on the topic of All-Flash Arrays, one thing that came out was just how broad was the chasm in thinking between those whose organisations already ...
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Microsoft's challenge for 2018: mindshare & market relevance
- Freeform Dynamics 02 Feb 2018 -
Why the IoT is pushing analytics to the limit
- Freeform Dynamics 01 Feb 2018 -
Privacy lessons from the fitness fiasco
- Freeform Dynamics 01 Feb 2018 -
Information management is going mainstream – at last!
- Freeform Dynamics 29 Jan 2018 -
GDPR’s latest gift? Class action privacy cases
- Freeform Dynamics 29 Jan 2018
Microsoft's revenues are up, but compared to its biggest competitors -- Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook -- its mindshare and perceived market relevance are down. Satya Nadella's Microsoft is ...
IoT Back to Basics, chapter 2: In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT) it is becoming increasingly important to be able to process, filter and analyse data close to where it is created, so it ...
Most of us already recognise that technology has the potential to wipe out our privacy, if checks and balances are not in place – or at least I hope we do! What’s scary then in the recent hoo-hah ...
Some assumptions have been held by IT pros for so long that they have almost become articles of faith. One of these is the idea that content management, particularly for files, semi-structured and ...
Europeans will in future be able to bring US-style class actions for (alleged) privacy violations, instead of having to sue individually and expensively. It’s thanks to a little-known clause of the ...