Are you stuck between a rock and a hard place? Much has been written about the importance of software to the modern business. The watch-word is ‘digital’ and that translates…
Cloud services are increasingly becoming part of the IT delivery mix, but a recent study of 378 senior IT professionals suggests a parallel commitment to ongoing investment in the datacentre.…
Listen to some DevOps evangelists talk, and you would get the impression that IT operations teams only exist to serve the needs of developers. Now don’t get me wrong, software…
Securing the applications and services that underpin your online and mobile presence is one thing, but keeping them secure secure on an ongoing basis is another. How well do your…
When IT teams and their colleagues within the business get along, life is good for everyone. A virtuous circle is created in which managers and executives recognise and appreciate the…
A recent survey by Freeform Dynamics of 320 senior data centre professionals reveals that datacentre facilities-related outages, e.g. to do with power and cooling, happen more frequently than you might…
When an important topic or trend gives rise to a marketing and media bandwagon, any previous semblance of clarity tends to evaporate. It becomes hard to distinguish between spin, sensationalism…
The word ’digital’ seems to have overtaken ’cloud’ as the hottest word in the IT industry. I have no quantitative evidence for this, but if vendor PowerPoints are anything to…
In a nutshell You may have doubts about the value for money or level of service you are getting from IT. You may also feel that your current systems are…
In a nutshell If asked to name a distributed version control system (DVCS), most people in the software development world would probably think of Git. Indeed, some would spontaneously rave…
It’s easy to be caught out by a cyber attack or internal mistake that leads to your customers’ data or important intellectual property ending up on the black market. Making…
I have used iPads for many years, but they have always been ’nice to have’ rather than essential devices from a work perspective. The addition of the ’Pencil’ (stylus) and…
The rumour mill says that that Apple will soon launch a smaller (9.7 inch) version of the iPad Pro, complete with support for the Apple Pencil. This could be interesting…
Application programming interfaces (APIs) have been around for decades. In the early days of IT they were primarily used to give programmers convenient access to libraries of prebuilt functions. As…
I’ve been coming across more DevOps naysayers and sceptics recently. Whether online or face-to-face, I keep hearing people saying that DevOps is just the latest example of marketing BS or…
Managing PC estates is a time-consuming, expensive and thankless task. Better provisioning and management tools can obviously help, but implementing one or more of the various forms of desktop virtualisation…
No one needs telling that the pressure on their network infrastructure is growing. In fact those participating in a recent Freeform Dynamics research study were all too aware of the…
