Tony Lock

Managing IT and business risk in the times of eroding enterprise boundaries

Managing risk in business has always been more of an art form than a science.[...]

Systems monitoring: what’s possible, and what really happens

IT increasingly plays a pivotal role in business processes. The importance of systems to the[...]

Storage Technology Evolution and Alignment

By Jon Collins and Tony Lock Executive summary Few organisations today would deny their absolute[...]

Desktop virtualisation: The control-plus-flexibility problem

Desktop virtualisation is attracting serious attention as organisations consider the future potential directions for delivering[...]

Your desktop virtualisation reality check

Migrating desktops is never easy. The promise of better management and security that is offered[...]

Desktop virtualisation: why, how, and how much?

As anyone who has started down the path will confirm, desktop virtualisation is not a[...]

The Mainframe Extends its Reach

Over the course of the last decade there has been considerable discussion about the future[...]

Streamlining the network

Ethernet networks have evolved dramatically in capabilities and scale over the past decade. Networks have[...]

How can Organisations be helped to exploit Storage Management Solutions?

The amount of data stored by organisations continues to grow at a very fast rate.[...]

The cloud’s impact on security?

We tried to get through this workshop without using the five letter C-word, but we[...]

Time for action on storage management

The amount of data stored by organisations continues to grow very fast. It has become[...]

Cloud Confusion

By Tony Lock In this article we revisit some research conducted in 2008, covering perceptions[...]

Is it possible to measure IT Security?

It is a commonly held principle in many areas of business that if you can’t[...]

The joy of software licensing on the desktop

One of the joys of working as a manager of desktop and laptop systems is[...]

Using systems management tools in IT security

Every IT professional recognises the importance of securing the IT systems that are now at[...]

Server financing: CAPEX, OPEX or something else

In the current economic climate access to spending money is tight across all businesses. In[...]

Data security strategies and drivers

Audience – Sales and pre-sales audience selling to large enterprises and government Occasion – Annual[...]

Rethinking security. Just what are you trying to secure?

Ask any IT manager, business leader or regulator and they will tell you that IT[...]

Workload selection on mixed server estates

Over the last year or so Freeform Dynamics has asked Reg readers if the new[...]

Provisioning – how do you approach it?

Buying new physical servers has always taken time and effort. Unfortunately virtualisation has managed to[...]

Are CIOs ready to use cloud computing?

By Tony Lock Seldom in the history of IT have CIOs faced a marketing barrage[...]

Infrastructure Consolidation

By Tony Lock Research results obtained by Freeform Dynamics towards the end of 2009 show[...]

Can IT Financing and Management Models Survive IT Change?

By Tony Lock In a nutshell: The models used for businesses to create IT budgets[...]

Is your data safe – and accessible?

Data protection has been a requirement and an obligation for organisations of all sizes since[...]