Author Archives: Freeform Dynamics

Infrastructure Optimisation Workshop

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What’s lurking in your data centre?

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Free to cheap sales opportunity?

If you sell weapons, pornography, drugs, products sourced from illegal logging, products derived from endangered[...]

Clouds Yet To Fill The IT Skies

You may have noticed that the IT vendor weather has recently become quite stormy as[...]

Green Grading

Getting people interested in environmental issues is tough enough but, once interested, they are faced[...]

The Price of Free

A couple weeks ago, OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released, and millions of consumers downloaded it, including[...]

Mind mapping comes in from the cold

This is going to be a tricky post because I have strong, and possibly irrational,[...]

Agile Software Development: Is it right for you?

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Green IT

This was a ’seed’ article for the launch of ooffoo, a Green community site for[...]

Piggy-backing on social software

While our attention has been diverted by the razzle dazzle of the social software startups,[...]

The illusion of multitasking

Have you heard of David Allen or Getting Things Done, sometimes abbreviated to GTD? He’s[...]

Positioning And Understanding Virtualisation

Audience – Zycko’s channel partners Occasion – Annual channel partner meeting Presenter(s) – Tony Lock[...]

Agile Development – Is it Right For You?

by Jon Collins and Dale Vile The software community has always been a communicative one,[...]

View from the defence: seven reasons for security as a service

I’m just back from RSA Europe 2008, where I was hosting a panel on software[...]

Just semantics? Or is it true?

The semantic web is one of those things that has been much talked about, especially[...]

Secure Printing – chastity belts or ID cards?

Whoever invented the term ‘the paperless office’, they should be shot. The world is getting[...]

A netbook in your life?

When travelling, I rely on my BlackBerry for keeping in touch, or my laptop computer[...]

Are software developers a security hazard?

Well, no, of course they are not – no more than anybody else of course.[...]

How to tackle green apathy

Coming back from a holiday, loaded with the usual environmental guilt, I found a 14-page[...]

Collaboration – get it together – ’Enterprise 2.0’: Not as easy as it sounds

Getting your people collaborating more effectively is a laudable goal. If you listen to IT[...]

Achieving software development success is all in the balance

Application development remains undeniably important to organisations large and small. The need for software design,[...]

Making sense of BPM – Hello Wood. Shift it, Trees

With our friends at Freeform Dynamics, we set out to explore the topic of ‘business[...]

Cloud computing is hot air, unless…

As you may know, I spend a lot of time working with some very knowledgeable[...]