The news that another of the big players in global file systems, Hammerspace, has integrated tape access into its data orchestration software should remind us all that tape’s modern incarnations…
Why do we need dedicated AI engines in laptops, and especially in the ultrathin laptops that AMD, Qualcomm and Intel are all targeting with their latest processors? What’s the motivation…
A new AI battlefield is opening up, not among all the GPU ‘farms’ in data centres around the world, but out at the network edge and in particular on the…
What a difference a week can make. The dust had barely settled on Broadcom’s $69bn acquisition of VMware before Broadcom, much as its critics had predicted, blew it all up in the…
The news that Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has finally gone through, after more than a year of uncertainty, will have relieved a lot of people. Even more of a relief,…
Part 1: AI hype vs fear and doubt The leakage of proprietary IP and other data has been one of the biggest corporate fears around generative AI since the launch…
Cyber: for some, it’s a prefix that conjures up images of Dr Who’s silvery cyborg opponents. For others, it’s the equally science-fiction but very different image of Neuromancer-style cyberpunk hackers, and…
If you’re knee-deep in the world of SAP and data management, you almost certainly know the pain of dirty data. It’s inaccurate, inconsistent, and a real headache when you’re trying…
All the signs are there that an AI crash is coming: overinflated claims and dodgy hype, a serious lack of expectation management, fears around privacy, ethics and fairness, over-enthusiastic amateurs…
More and more of the topics we deal with at Freeform Dynamics now also relate to digital identity. That’s no surprise, of course – digital identity is vital in this…
Here are just a few of the topics that my fellow Freeformers and I have enjoyed researching and writing about in recent years: network security, SD-WAN, digital identity, smart wallets,…
