Author Archives: Freeform Dynamics

Unified communications in context?

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could wipe the slate clean and install a brand[...]

Bring your own PC

The rise of ‘consumer’ expectations in the workforce is driving some organisations to think up[...]

Getting on top of change management

One of the first articles I ever had to write as an analyst was about[...]

Mobile: what they need – and what they want

Many years ago an IT manager, responding to one of our research studies, said one[...]

Selling the cloud

Vendors are pushing cloud for all they are worth. And customers talk about it too,[...]

How to make unified communications work for your business

Whether businesses like it or not, the likelihood is that unified communications (UC) in some[...]

Making sense of the new business of IT

You may be heartily sick of hearing that ‘change is the only constant’, ‘everything’s getting[...]

Supporting multinationals – are mobile operators really up to the job?

Historically, the perception of mobile operators in the eye of large multinationals has been variable,[...]

IT infrastructure for mid-sized organizations

By Jon Collins IT infrastructure is often presented in a way that is more relevant[...]

When desktop security is a remote possibility

The readers of The Register, have told us that supporting users is fraught with problems.[...]

Managing the dung heaps of data

The question “What about the ’I’ in ’IT’?” serves as an equally good reminder of[...]

You think mobile voice is expensive? Try data roaming

The issue of mobile pricing can be something of a sore point in the business[...]

The challenges of On-Demand IT

IT has been central to business operations for a very long time. Is the economics[...]

Servers: Getting a grip on power and control

The Register’s Tim Phillips, our own Andrew Buss and Intel’s Iain Beckingham give power efficiency[...]

Holistic, end-to-end, consolidated service management-itis

Many IT professionals see ‘service management’ (or ‘managing services’ if you prefer) as a simple[...]

Are you getting Double Vision? What hybrid GPU architectures bring to the table

PCs and diversity go hand in hand, whether it’s how we choose for them to[...]

Mobile virtualisation

By Josie Sephton Given the push towards platform virtualisation as a way of optimising hardware[...]

Videoconferencing: coming to a company near you?

It is probably fair to say that the likelihood of videoconferencing becoming mainstream in the[...]

Getting your business mobile

Everyone knows that mobility is pretty important to most businesses today, with needs having moved[...]

Delivering on data governance – Making sure IT’s glass is half full

Data governance can be dismissed as ‘applied common sense’, or balked at as an impossible[...]

The software licensing minefield

Software vendors make their money from licensing software for individual and corporate use. From the[...]

The emerging cloud alternative

If there’s one thing about the current furore about Cloud Computing that really gets our[...]

Should we be encrypting backups?

We all know that data protection regulations are gaining teeth. As we discussed before, it[...]

IT Support and workforce productivity

Audience – IT practitioners and decision makers Occasion – Webinar hosted by Citrix, 27 May[...]