Author Archives: Freeform Dynamics
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[...]
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[...]
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.[...]
Social Business and unknown unknowns
By Charles Brett At an Analyst Briefing in London in late September IBM described what[...]
Could what happened to flight engineers apply to data storage and its management?
By Charles Brett Flight engineers in cockpits began to disappear in the 1980s as aircraft[...]
Unintended Enterprise Mobile Errors
By Charles Brett The arrival of mobile devices, from smartphones to tablets and beyond, is[...]
The Data Centre Today and Tomorrow
By Freeform Dynamics Our analysts recently took part in an expert clinic looking at some[...]
Mobile solutions in enterprises pay:
By Charles Brett In this the fifth of various (of at least six) analyses of[...]
Mobility: Sync vs Async
By Charles Brett Since computing began there has been a non-battle between asynchronous and synchronous[...]
Mobile solutions in enterprises pay:
By Charles Brett In the fourth of various at least six analyses of mobility and[...]
Mobile solutions in enterprises pay:
By Charles Brett In this third of multiple assessments of mobility and RoI, three examples[...]
Mobile solutions in enterprises pay:
By Charles Brett This is the second of several assessments of mobility initiatives and the[...]
Samsung vs Apple – which brand of smartphone is preferred?
By Team Freeform People feel strongly about their smartphones. This much was clear when we[...]