Author Archives: Freeform Dynamics
Mobile users and personal devices
Business today is a very different beast to that of just five years ago, and[...]
Securing Your Network
In this three part podcast Jason Stamper, editor at CBR, talks to Jon Collins and[...]
Managing the distributed workforce
While the principles of managing a distributed workforce may not have changed much, user expectations[...]
Organisational change and IT
It is great to theorise about all the good things IT can bring. Indeed, a[...]
The IT management dashboard
Our research in the IT management domain has helped us establish a few basic truths.[...]
Security: Get the board on board
While the principles of IT security are relatively timeless and straightforward to understand, technology itself[...]
When should firms adopt UC and how should they roll it out?
Since its beginnings, unified communications (UC) has faced an uncertain response in the enterprise, with[...]
Server patching principles. The nirvana process
In the imperfect world we live in, patching stuff, be it desktops, software or servers[...]
Will UC stop you being exposed?
Delving around the Web recently, I happened upon a very neat analogy in a couple[...]
Application Retirement: What about the Data?
by Jon Collins and Martin Atherton Introducing application retirement: what’s really important to you? Whatever[...]
The user view of IT delivery
It would be odd to hear from an IT pro who didn’t have ‘demanding users’,[...]
Architecting for IT service delivery
A few years back I was involved in a project that turned out far more[...]
Unified comms: You must go the whole hog to reap the benefits
As businesses strive to deal with numerous challenges, from complying with the prevailing regulatory environment[...]
Supporting the teleworkers: Redux
The issue of providing IT support to home-based users always attracts a lot of responses[...]
Managing UC – you need to be in control
Love it or hate it (and from the feedback we have seen from Reg readers,[...]
Exploiting the new dynamism
Got the new kit? Now make it work A combination of today’s fast moving, interconnected[...]
Should all hard drives be encrypted?
Given the origins of computing in the coding and decoding of messages, it’s fair to[...]
What does YOUR IT crystal ball say?
Here’s a question for you. Is change really afoot in the way your organisation ‘does’[...]
Demystifying architecture for non-enterprise organisations
By Jon Collins Architecture, schmarchitecture… words like “architecture” get banded around in IT like they[...]
Change management in x86 server estates
Changes to the IT environment are the source of some of the biggest headaches for[...]
The right path to UC?
Picture this: the pros and cons of going down the Unified Communications (UC) route have[...]
Consumerisation and client computing
The Apple Mac is an appropriate candidate for the ‘I want one of those because[...]
The desktop demands of board-level managers
Register readers tell us that supporting employees and their IT equipment is a daily challenge,[...]
Is IT service delivery really changing?
The new world we’ve been hearing about for years is slowly drifting into focus. Globally[...]