Author Archives: Freeform Dynamics
Driving value from IT
Audience – IT decision makers Occasion – CA Mainframe Madness May 2010 Presenter(s) – Jon[...]
Information versus the silos
The idea that ‘information is important and we want to do more useful things with[...]
Understanding your information assets
Information is power, right? Well, just how powerful must most organisations feel today, given the[...]
Focus on business challenges, not technology innovations
The IT industry really does bring out the best and worst traits of human nature.[...]
Living with Unified Comms
Implementing a unified communications solution is just the starting point. It starts to get really[...]
Ensuring availability in a changing world
Roughly speaking, availability management is what your business does to ensure IT services stay up[...]
Delivering a secure information infrastructure
I recently had the task of writing an explanatory paper about Good Practice Guide (GPG)[...]
What’s in the box? Supporting chipsets and virtualisation demands
Selecting the right choice of components for an industry standard x64 server is much more[...]
Service management best practice. Is your future really in a book?
Whenever IT best practice for service management gets a mention, we tend to think of[...]
It’s the data that drives us. An alternative view of software rationalisation and retirement.
In business, the phrase ‘change is constant’ may be a tad overused but it is[...]
Protective Monitoring
by Jon Collins and Martin Atherton MAIN POINTS CESG (Communications and Electronic Security Group) Good[...]
Looking back: Software is Art?
The traditional craftsman uses handed down principles and rules of thumb as the basis of[...]
The impact of virtualisation on securing systems
Virtualisation has become an established trend in the x86 server market and is moving into[...]
Working remotely: What are the solutions?
It’s funny how far mobile computing has come in the last ten years. It enables[...]
The evolving role of the IT security manager
Security has long been the poor cousin of IT. As any security professional knows, the[...]
Standards and interoperability: Are you backing the right horse?
IT can sometimes seem like a long, drawn-out process of making things work with each[...]
Servers: Refurbish, repurpose or recycle?
With the worst of the recession looking to have passed (touch wood), things are looking[...]
IT looking forward Video (requires Silverlight)
This article is hosted on an external website. Please click here to view it in[...]
IT governance: Making the case without cutting your throat
‘IT governance’ sounds like a grandiose idea, but what is it? In simplest terms, it’s[...]
Why server virtualisation can store up trouble
The cost savings and performance offered by server virtualisation can raise unforeseen issues for storage[...]
What’s in store for availability management?
Roughly speaking, availability management is what your organisation does to ensure IT services stay up[...]
Search: What are you looking for?
By Martin Atherton In the very real world of business IT, the concepts, topics and[...]
Building high availability into IT
What does ‘high availability’ actually mean in the context of IT today? We’ve written elsewhere[...]
The desktop provisioning palaver
Setting and maintaining desktop policy and provisioning equipment and software sounds like something that should[...]