IT Strategy/Transformation Archives

Desktop Virtualization

Desktop virtualization has progressed from a niche way of handling exceptional user requirements to a[...]

Private Cloud in Context

To make sense of private cloud, you need unravel it from the broader cloud computing[...]

Energy Aware Planning and Decision Making

Energy availability and management is increasingly becoming an important agenda item for IT leaders, but[...]

Working smarter, not harder

What options are there to help people work together more effectively? The emergence of new[...]

Seven enablers of effective disaster recovery for SMEs

By Tony Lock In a nutshell: Recent research carried out by Freeform Dynamics identified seven[...]

Your office in the cloud – dream or nightmare?

Considerations for SaaS-based email and office productivity tools Why go to all the trouble of[...]

Time to assess the value of the data you hold

Failing to do so could be costly There’s no need to rattle off another set[...]

Office 365 in the real world

A run through of precisely what it takes to move your business productivity apps to[...]

Delivering better services with integrated management

What’s in it for IT professionals? When systems are implemented and managed in isolation, it[...]

Conducting the trio, not orchestrating a symphony

Tunes to get you started ’Dynamic workload management’ and ’private cloud’ are just two of[...]

IT Infrastructure Management Must Move with the Times

The technologies and solutions used in the IT infrastructure have changed dramatically over the years,[...]

Six common impediments to effective IT change management

We at Freeform Dynamics have been running surveys and interactive workshops with The Register’s readership[...]

Fast Forward to Big Data

Does ’cloud’ have a roll in providing customers with access to new data sources to[...]

Readers tell us why implementing change is so hard

Readers have provided some great feedback during our latest workshop on a topic that has[...]

Managing IT like a (service) pro

Organisations are often told that running their IT as a service would be the right[...]

The Consumerisation of IT – exposing a few myths

Ignoring key trends could be harmful to corporate health Is it really true that organisations[...]

Stop fighting fires and start managing change

It’s treating the root cause of rigidity that really matters For most of the past[...]

Turning virtualisation into advantage

Freedom to move, not bogging things down The road to hell, they say, is paved[...]

Banging your head against the invisible wall

Has virtualisation really moved the game forward? OK, so you’ve virtualised a bunch of servers[...]

Martha Bennett and Kieran Hines at Intellect

In this podcast interview, Martha Bennett shares her thoughts on some of the key challenges[...]

Virtualisation roadblocks: From sprawl to stall

A prompt to move to the next level of management? The early days of x86[...]

IT financing is not a deal saver

But it is a great sales tool if introduced early enough (This article was originally[...]

Is Big Data just Big Hype?

If the deluge of headlines and vendor marketing materials is anything to go by, ‘big[...]

SaaS based Email and Office Productivity

Over the course of many months there has been considerable coverage of ‘Cloud’ based office[...]