Category Archives: Infrastructure & Platforms
The Data Centre Today and Tomorrow
By Freeform Dynamics Our analysts recently took part in an expert clinic looking at some[...]
Forget Big Data – No one is panning for gold
By Tony Lock CIOs have been subjected to the combined efforts of a significant proportion[...]
Raising your game with Software as a Service
Cloud computing, and Software as a Service (SaaS) in particular, can in theory deliver a[...]
’Big Data changes EVERYTHING’ vs ’Hadoop? For my 200-customer biz?’
By Dale Vile As an industry analyst, it sometimes feels like I am flitting between[...]
Managing expanding business – Critical Linux workloads
Evidence from users in the real world shows that for large workloads, the mainframe offers[...]
DCIM and Energy Management
By Tony Lock Over several decades IT management has focussed almost exclusively on keeping servers[...]
Speeding up ‘Change’
By Tony Lock For much of the last decade ‘IT’ has become something of a[...]
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 is a big bet for Microsoft, and is a major step forward[...]
Workload placement in a hybrid world
Research shows that you are going to mix your platforms and deployment models in the[...]
Do SMBs have less of a mobile and collaboration need?
By Dale Vile Yahoo!’s decision last month to axe home working prompted a lot of[...]
Cloud Opportunities
By Team Freeform It seems that every week yet another visionary or IT vendor with[...]
Cloud is more about choice than hosting
By Dale Vile There’s a trick we use at Freeform Dynamics when trying to figure[...]
To PaaS or not to PaaS – that is the question
By Dale Vile Most forms of cloud computing are starting to find their place in[...]
User driven IT adoption – Problem or opportunity?
By Dale Vile The latest catchy but dubious term to emanate from the vendor and[...]
Security, privacy and data protection
By Tony Lock Many businesses today are faced with the challenge of rapidly fluctuating operating[...]
Data Centre Evolution
By Tony Lock Data centres and computer rooms are an important hub of many organisations,[...]
Your local Public Cloud
By Andrew Buss A few weeks back we looked at the role that private and[...]
Cloud storage matters
The storage architecture you will need for a private cloud deployment will probably be very[...]
Big Data, Analytics and the Future of Data Centres
Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – VMUG Meeting, Manchester February 12, 2013 Presenter(s)[...]
Virtual application networking
If you’re implementing a private or a hybrid cloud, then your network fabric needs a[...]
Creating the Next Generation Data Centre
Practical steps to efficiency and flexibility
Datacentre modernisation in 2013
By Andrew Buss Most IT departments today recognise that things could be run much more[...]
Consolidation in the cloud
As the feverish excitement of cloud hype becomes a practical challenge for you to solve,[...]