Over the course of the last decade there has been considerable discussion about the future development and use of the revered Mainframe platform, usually now to be found under the…
Ethernet networks have evolved dramatically in capabilities and scale over the past decade. Networks have now become enablers of business-critical applications rather than simply communications infrastructure. Companies are demanding things…
The amount of data stored by organisations continues to grow at a very fast rate. Indeed, as the figure below illustrates, the growth of data to be served has become…
We tried to get through this workshop without using the five letter C-word, but we could not quite make it to the end. There are good reasons for considering whether…
The amount of data stored by organisations continues to grow very fast. It has become one of the most important drivers affecting both the architecture and operation of IT systems.…
By Tony Lock In this article we revisit some research conducted in 2008, covering perceptions of Cloud Computing. We then consider how things stand today. While there was genuine interest…
It is a commonly held principle in many areas of business that if you can’t measure something “quantitatively”, it will be difficult to raise the quality objectively. The applicability of…
One of the joys of working as a manager of desktop and laptop systems is to be found in the weird and sometimes surreal world of software licenses. Not really,…
Every IT professional recognises the importance of securing the IT systems that are now at the heart of many business processes. This recognition goes beyond simple deployment of security technologies.…
In the current economic climate access to spending money is tight across all businesses. In truth, the spotlight has been thrown ever more closely onto IT spend over the course…
Audience – Sales and pre-sales audience selling to large enterprises and government Occasion – Annual channel partners of Thales–April 2010 Presenter(s) – Tony Lock Data security strategies and…
Ask any IT manager, business leader or regulator and they will tell you that IT security is important – that much goes without saying. As the chart below shows, for…
Over the last year or so Freeform Dynamics has asked Reg readers if the new flexibility in deploying workloads in virtualised server infrastructures makes it possible to manage application delivery…
Buying new physical servers has always taken time and effort. Unfortunately virtualisation has managed to create the perception that the provisioning of virtual machines is quick, easy and – very…
By Tony Lock Seldom in the history of IT have CIOs faced a marketing barrage of hype comparable to that which is currently to be found billowing around the term…
By Tony Lock Research results obtained by Freeform Dynamics towards the end of 2009 show that, despite the considerable efforts of vendors to promote the benefits of ‘consolidation’, organisations of…
By Tony Lock In a nutshell: The models used for businesses to create IT budgets have not changed significantly in a generation. The advent of new models for the production…
Data protection has been a requirement and an obligation for organisations of all sizes since the beginning of IT. So why do so few organisations believe they have data protection…
‘Virtualisation’ is acknowledged by IT professionals as being a pretty good thing. But when we dig a bit deeper into the results of our surveys, it very quickly becomes clear…
This 60-minute webcast features Martin Atherton and Tony Lock, who donning business and IT hats respectively, assess the development of service management across the organisation. The conversation broaches several topics,…
by Tony Lock With virtualization close to the top of every CIO’s to do list, we undertook the task of finding out how well server, storage and desktop virtualization is…
