From stability to agility Data centres have been around a long time during which various operational practices and best practice processes have been established to keep them running effectively, if…
Mobile, social and other digital channels are now an integral part of customer engagement. As expectations evolve, harnessing both internal and external data to create a deeper understanding of the…
Data protection is essential for every business and its importance cannot be underestimated for disaster recovery (DR) and prevention of data loss as a result of more day to day…
The services offered by telecom companies provide some of the best examples of digital customer engagement. But digital transformation is not just about the externally facing parts of a business.…
Self-driving cars provide one of the best examples of how digital technology is set to transform various aspects of our lives. However, while we wait for manufacturers, municipalities and regulators…
While many are talking about concepts such as disruption and innovation as if they were invented to serve the needs of the modern digital economy, it’s easy to forget that…
I recently acquired a Surface Pro 4 as part of an equipment refresh here at Freeform Dynamics. The purchase process itself merits a mention as it was not without its…
IBM’s announcement of a storage suite with per Tb pricing is a natural move following the launch of the Spectrum brand last year to sit over its storage portfolio. Back…
IT Security is complex and trying to work out whether it is better to use dedicated best of breed systems or solutions that deliver a range of capabilities in a…
The rate of change in IT and business has never been more rapid. Standing still with respect to how your organisation uses IT is not an option. But keeping track…
Enterprise scale up storage arrays have traditionally been expensive to acquire and complex to manage. While effective, scale up systems are not without their challenges. For example, you may well…
While your storage infrastructure may be meeting current needs, you will almost certainly be investing in it in one way or another as demands escalate and new requirements emerge. The…
Cloud adoption is taking place in organisations of all sizes. Internal cloud systems are being built, public cloud services are being adopted and this creates new challenges for data centre…
The chances are that your storage systems are subject to a range of pressures, almost any of which could prompt a rethink on how you deliver services to your customers…
VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) are due to be released in 2015 and have been designed to help streamline deployment, make ongoing administration of VMs more straightforward, and to allow each…
In a recent research study we looked at the challenge of building a storage infrastructure to meet the rapidly changing needs of business, and stand the test of time. The…
In a nutshell Device proliferation and loss of control over at least some end user equipment drives a need to centralise key aspects of IT delivery in order to maintain…
You have probably heard the representatives of at least a few vendors say IT is moving towards a future where the core technologies that underpin the services you run will be based…
Rapid data growth, a greater emphasis on operational risk and developments in storage hardware are conspiring to question the suitability of some traditional data protection solutions to deal with evolving…
The storage solutions you run today face many challenges, of which the explosive growth in data volumes is just one. In a recent survey we asked what currently stresses your…
Given how important the company’s data is and the ever more stringent nature of the data protection regulations, it’s always good to keep an eye out for simple steps to…
By Tony Lock We all know that trying to authenticate our users when they access the company’s IT systems faces one major challenge that has so far outstripped the ability…
