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[...]