Author Archives: Freeform Dynamics

Getting down and dirty with desktop virtualization

There is growing interest in desktop virtualization, despite many IT professionals having limited detailed knowledge[...]

What’s the point of desktop virtualization?

Over the past few weeks we have considered many facets of virtualization and now we[...]

IT essential for businesses’ green success

Life is tough for IT management. Not only does it have to juggle the conflicting[...]

IT’s role in enterprise power management

Audience – I.T. and business professionals Occasion – BrightTALK’s IT Power Management summit on August[...]

Getting under the shell of virtualization

What’s an operating system anyway? The questions we posed this week were quite disconnected, but[...]

When is an operating system not an operating system?

It used to be the case that the role of the operating system (OS) was[...]

Counting the cost of virtualization

The benefits of virtualisation, particularly in relation to x86 server consolidation, are pretty well recognised.[...]

Does *free* virtualization = certain chaos?

When we broached the subject of ’stuff that can go wrong with virtualization’. One of[...]

The Register Buzz Report

In association with The Register According to a research survey conducted with The Register readership[...]

Mobile operators: Tune in to the customer

As businesses and consumers place increasing emphasis on the use of mobile, and both behaviour[...]

Delivering on identity and access management

By Jon Collins At a recent panel event involving senior security managers and chief information[...]

Virtualization security – oxymoron or perfect partnership?

So far in this series we’ve looked at where virtualisation is at, and where it’s[...]

Will cloud put traditional hosters out of business? Elasticity isn’t everything

It sometimes seems as if the whole world has gone cloud crazy – well at[...]

Server virtualization – what could possibly go wrong?

Indisputably, server virtualization has a lot going for it. The challenge does not lie in[...]

Application QoS – where’s the measuring tape?

IT has undergone a major development in the last few years, namely the acknowledgment that[...]

Virtualization rocks – but who cares beyond consolidation?

The feedback on virtualization experiences from those participating so far in our latest online workshop[...]

Perception versus reality in IT

By Tony Lock In the world of information technology there is the impression that everything[...]

Making sense of energy

By David Tebbutt Have you started getting the energy bills for your department yet? What[...]

Virtualization payback, now and in the future

Most people arguably get the point of virtualisation in terms of server consolidation, and the[...]

Juicing up your web pages can be sweet

Richard Wallis is an inventive cove. He works for software company Talis which is, itself,[...]

Audience power and the death of deference

How do you feel if you’re addressing a large group of people and some of[...]

’Bottom up’ money- and planet-saving measures

Much has been written about pollution of the land, sea and air and the problems[...]

How to make sure your e-commerce strategy delivers

Introducing “e” into industry parlance has caused all manner of problems, not least for electronic[...]

A most important string to ICT’s bow

In crude terms, the computer industry sees itself as the saviour of the planet and[...]