Category Archives: [ Analyst Opinion ]
How Brexit-friendly are your SaaS contracts?
Analyst opinion If you think Brexit will be advantageous for the UK economy and the[...]
Six months on, GDPR is a qualified success
Analyst opinion Anyone hoping that we would by now have greater clarity on GDPR will[...]
How long will your New Year stay Happy?
The Freeform Dynamics fortune-telling kit has been dusted off for 2019. Here some of the[...]
Google Chrome: It’s more than a browser
Chrome has come a long way, but the journey might only just be starting I[...]
Don’t ignore the complexity of hybrid multi-cloud
Analyst opinion Many vendors will argue that moving to cloud brings consistency and simplicity, thanks[...]
Open source is growing up – and here’s how
Analyst opinion If you’re among those who still think that open source is just for[...]
The mainframe returns – as a platform for large-scale Linux
Analyst opinion There are several ways to build large scale Linux server environments, with x86[...]
Last call for a European public cloud?
Analyst opinion Europe’s self-described No.1 ‘hyper-scale cloud provider’, OVH, held its 6th annual customer conference[...]
Industrial IoT makes your people more important, not less
Analyst opinion The recent Industry of Things World conference in Berlin offered insights into the[...]
Google has got serious about Enterprise IT
Analyst opinion Google has made a complete about-face on the enterprise. It took so long[...]
Cloud Foundry’s growth highlights open source success and the cracks in commercial licensing
Analyst opinion Open source has crested the hill of enterprise acceptance. There’s no longer the[...]
When modern meetings don’t work
Analyst opinion Once upon a time, pretty much every meeting had a minute-taker – someone[...]
Is IBM relevant to today’s mainstream?
Analyst opinion When IT vendors talk about the market, they tend to focus on how[...]
DevOps is wasted unless the business goes Agile too
Analyst opinion When analysts and journalists write about Agile and DevOps, the focus is typically[...]
What can Chromebooks offer the enterprise desktop market?
Analyst opinion If you’re an IT professional managing a large desktop estate or an end[...]
A conference room for the future
Analyst opinion In some ways, the recent completion of Plantronics’ $2 billion purchase of Polycom[...]
Workplace software as an occupational hazard
Analyst opinion The US Department of Labor has updated its Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.[...]
Millennial versus Mature – who’s the real IT security risk?
Analyst opinion Passwords have been the mainstay for securing applications, devices and the data they[...]
Your PC is rooted and jailbroken: deal with it!
Analyst opinion One of the defining characteristics of the modern digital workplace is a PC[...]
Cloud storage is hot
Analyst opinion But do people know what they mean when they talk about it –[...]
Xero highlights the role of the modern software ecosystem
Looking beyond the technology I recently caught up with Gary Turner, co-founder and managing of[...]
Growth mindset lets Microsoft love Linux
Analyst opinion Timed to coincide with the RSA security conference, Microsoft has announced Azure Sphere,[...]
Routes to AI goodness
Analyst opinion It’s all too easy to conflate the kind of AI being hyped in[...]
Time to dump the all-flash scepticism
Analyst opinion When we surveyed several hundred IT professionals on the topic of All-Flash Arrays,[...]