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How much of your mainstream IT capacity does mobility consume?

Freeform Dynamics 10 October 2014 No Comments

Few doubt the increasing popularity of mobile devices, specifically smartphones and tablets. Their numbers grow by the billion, with 2 billion already in use and, if current trends hold, likely…

Have you planned for a ’friendly’ DDoS attack?

Freeform Dynamics 19 August 2014 No Comments

Malicious Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks do not occur often. Nevertheless, for an enterprise trying to stay in business they are difficult to resist. The concept of a ’friendly’…

Social media and why businesses need to embrace it

Freeform Dynamics 17 July 2014 No Comments

As a teenager just entering the world of business I had to go through a serious adjustment. The communication conventions – with email as the default for everything – were…

Mobile security is more than protecting local data

Freeform Dynamics 6 June 2014 No Comments

By now we’ve all heard the term Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). This phenomenon is becoming increasingly popular as people have access to far more advanced consumer tech in their…

What are APT’s?

Freeform Dynamics 4 June 2014 No Comments

What is an APT? APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat. The goal of this form of hacking is to infiltrate the network of an organisation and slowly steal or harvest…

Say What?

Freeform Dynamics 4 June 2014 No Comments

Recently I attended the IBM Security Systems Analyst Meet the Experts day in Heathrow. With only one other industry event under my belt, I was still unsure of what to…

Security: the oft-forgotten dimension

Freeform Dynamics 30 May 2014 No Comments

Computer security is a hot topic today, and much talked about. There are endless emanations of new and sparkly technologies, each of which aspires to solve security problems, though most…

Are GPUs about to enter IT’s mainstream?

Freeform Dynamics 29 April 2014 No Comments

By Charles Brett Until relatively recently most in IT looked upon Graphics Processing Units (GPUs[1]) as specialty technology with dozens or hundreds of cores optimized to run complex mathematical modelling…

Should you wait for a wall-to-wall Windows solution?

Freeform Dynamics 26 March 2014 No Comments

By Charles Brett Talking to end users and some vendors, especially from the mobile space, there is some circumstantial evidence of the existence of businesses who would like to see…

Mobility Management Coming of Age

Freeform Dynamics 12 March 2014 No Comments

By Charles Brett 2014’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona brought together the mobile telephony infrastructure industry, multiple handset vendors and large numbers of mobile app tools and platforms. As always,…

The Security Education Dilemma

Freeform Dynamics 9 January 2014 No Comments

By Charles Brett Security covers many dimensions, including the physical and logical. As such many employees, including executives, do not or choose not to understand its implications well. Instead they…

Data Stored Factor: do you know how many times is a given piece of data stored?

Freeform Dynamics 5 December 2013 No Comments

By Charles Brett Are enterprises asking the right questions about data and its storage? This may seem an unusual question – it should not be treated as an abstract issue.…

Are we barking up the wrong mobile data protection tree?

Freeform Dynamics 21 November 2013 No Comments

By Charles Brett Professional IT prefers disciplined approaches which back up, or copy, all enterprise data to ensure it does not go missing. There are good reasons for this especially…

How much is a mobile data gigabyte?

Freeform Dynamics 30 October 2013 No Comments

By Charles Brett A gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes. Computer science tells us this is so. But when it comes to IT vendors and telecom service providers this simple truth is…

Social Business and unknown unknowns

Freeform Dynamics 28 October 2013 No Comments

By Charles Brett At an Analyst Briefing in London in late September IBM described what seems like an increasingly hoary chestnut: social business – a term that tries to combine…

Could what happened to flight engineers apply to data storage and its management?

Freeform Dynamics 17 October 2013 No Comments

By Charles Brett Flight engineers in cockpits began to disappear in the 1980s as aircraft manufacturers rolled out new plane designs that were more automated and thereby cost efficient. Arguably…

Unintended Enterprise Mobile Errors

Freeform Dynamics 21 August 2013 No Comments

By Charles Brett The arrival of mobile devices, from smartphones to tablets and beyond, is imposing changes on organisations and especially on CIOs as business units seek to exploit what…

The Data Centre Today and Tomorrow

Freeform Dynamics 26 June 2013 No Comments

By Freeform Dynamics Our analysts recently took part in an expert clinic looking at some of the most common questions and challenges that arise as organisations look to modernise and…

Mobile solutions in enterprises pay:

Freeform Dynamics 14 May 2013 No Comments

By Charles Brett In this the fifth of various (of at least six) analyses of mobility and RoI, five examples from administrative situations are described. A manufacturing company deployed 150…

Mobility: Sync vs Async

Freeform Dynamics 8 May 2013 No Comments

By Charles Brett Since computing began there has been a non-battle between asynchronous and synchronous communication. Why a non-battle? Because with application development the norm is to concentrate on the…

Mobile solutions in enterprises pay:

Freeform Dynamics 29 April 2013 No Comments

By Charles Brett In the fourth of various at least six analyses of mobility and RoI, four examples from local government situations are describedas to how mobile solutions improve citizen…

Mobile solutions in enterprises pay:

Freeform Dynamics 24 April 2013 No Comments

By Charles Brett In this third of multiple assessments of mobility and RoI, three examples from logistics/distribution are described. Logistics and distribution are obvious candidates for improvement via mobility, because…

Mobile solutions in enterprises pay:

Freeform Dynamics 19 April 2013 No Comments

By Charles Brett This is the second of several assessments of mobility initiatives and the associated RoI. It describes 5 instances of how mobile solutions improved field support: In the…

Samsung vs Apple – which brand of smartphone is preferred?

Freeform Dynamics 19 April 2013 No Comments

By Team Freeform People feel strongly about their smartphones. This much was clear when we analysed the results of a recent research study looking at habits and activity with respect…