Analyst opinion If you’re among those who still think that open source is just for hobbyists and academics, think again. Open source is mature now, both as a concept and…
Analyst opinion The recent Industry of Things World conference in Berlin offered insights into the state of the much-hyped Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). At one end, big early adopters…
Analyst opinion Open source has crested the hill of enterprise acceptance. There’s no longer the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) that there was around open source a few years ago,…
Analyst opinion Once upon a time, pretty much every meeting had a minute-taker – someone who kept notes, summarising who said what. These meeting minutes were circulated afterwards for comment…
Analyst opinion When analysts and journalists write about Agile and DevOps, the focus is typically on the technology and infrastructure – what it means for software and systems development in…
Analyst opinion In some ways, the recent completion of Plantronics’ $2 billion purchase of Polycom was more surprising for the amount paid than the fact that this is basically an…
Analyst opinion If you are starting to suspect that the AI hype is overblown, and that it’s just the latest term that marketing folk love to add to make their…
Analyst opinion 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…
Analyst opinion 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…
Analyst opinion 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…
Analyst opinion 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…
Let’s go surfing the waves of AFA automation and orchestration Done properly, All-Flash Arrays are a lot more than just extra-fast storage: Respondents told us in a recent survey that they…
Thankfully, the days when IT was seen simply as an unwelcome but necessary cost are behind us. As a recent survey by Freeform Dynamics (June 2017) discovered, finance directors, managers…
