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,[...]