Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Recent Posts
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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
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 ...
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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 -
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
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 ...
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 ...
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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 -
Paying for IT
- Freeform Dynamics 18 May 2021 -
Of cats and clouds: a lifetime TCO question
- Freeform Dynamics 13 May 2021
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 ...
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 ...