Author Archives: Freeform Dynamics
The dangers of digital smokescreens
A recent global study (1,442 senior respondents) revealed that those reporting particularly good returns from[...]
Building a Curated Digital Hub
In a nutshell In today’s online business environment, with data spread broadly and widely, making[...]
Tackling End User Content Sprawl
In a nutshell The problem of content sprawl has been around since the early days[...]
Combining DCIM and Cloud / CoLo / Managed Services
There is no doubt that requirements for IT to deliver additional capabilities continue to increase.[...]
My life under Estonia’s digital government
There is much government talk about the economic importance of enabling a digital society. Yet[...]
The ’feel-good’ factor is good for business
People who feel good while doing their job tend to work better, contribute more and[...]
How much of your mainstream IT capacity does mobility consume?
Few doubt the increasing popularity of mobile devices, specifically smartphones and tablets. Their numbers grow[...]
Have you planned for a ’friendly’ DDoS attack?
Malicious Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks do not occur often. Nevertheless, for an enterprise[...]
Social media and why businesses need to embrace it
As a teenager just entering the world of business I had to go through a[...]
Mobile security is more than protecting local data
By now we’ve all heard the term Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). This phenomenon is[...]
What are APT’s?
What is an APT? APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat. The goal of this form[...]
Say What?
Recently I attended the IBM Security Systems Analyst Meet the Experts day in Heathrow. With[...]
Organising to choose Enterprise Mobility Management
Mobile Device Management (MDM) is only one part of the broader Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)[...]
Security: the oft-forgotten dimension
Computer security is a hot topic today, and much talked about. There are endless emanations[...]
Are GPUs about to enter IT’s mainstream?
By Charles Brett Until relatively recently most in IT looked upon Graphics Processing Units (GPUs[1])[...]
Should you wait for a wall-to-wall Windows solution?
By Charles Brett Talking to end users and some vendors, especially from the mobile space,[...]
Mobility Management Coming of Age
By Charles Brett 2014’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona brought together the mobile telephony infrastructure[...]
The Security Education Dilemma
By Charles Brett Security covers many dimensions, including the physical and logical. As such many[...]
Data Stored Factor: do you know how many times is a given piece of data stored?
By Charles Brett Are enterprises asking the right questions about data and its storage? This[...]
Vodafone: an unexpected surprise
By Charles Brett Vodafone is an exception as a telco. It has a heritage in[...]
Are we barking up the wrong mobile data protection tree?
By Charles Brett Professional IT prefers disciplined approaches which back up, or copy, all enterprise[...]
How much is a mobile data gigabyte?
By Charles Brett A gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes. Computer science tells us this is so.[...]
Backing up your VMware environment
Is your VMware back up under control? No, we thought not. Virtualisation has achieved many[...]
Social Business and unknown unknowns
By Charles Brett At an Analyst Briefing in London in late September IBM described what[...]