Category Archives: IT Strategy/Transformation

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[...]

Understanding desktop virtualisation

Looking after an organisation’s estate of desktop and laptop PCs can be a difficult and[...]

User Virtualization – Moving beyond device-centric computing

When business IT was young and channel partners had plenty of hardware margins to play[...]

Information management: technology investment pays off

Obtaining budget for new technology investments can be a difficult exercise at the best of[...]

Storage Through the Looking Glass

Talk of storage technology makes business people yawn, but the state of the storage infrastructure[...]

The Business of Electronic Data Storage

By Dale Vile, Tony Lock and Martha Bennett Introduction Storage and retrieval of electronic data[...]

Beyond device-centric computing: Breaking barriers to enable productivity

In this webinar, Martha Bennett of Freeform Dynamics and Harry Labana of AppSense discuss the[...]

Rising to the information management challenge

In a world of increasingly devolved decision making, few would disagree that it’s important to[...]

Getting to grips with SMB resilience

It is recognised across almost all companies that disasters or major events can interrupt business[...]

Winners and losers in the information race

The mainstream media generally portrays the financial services industry as being in a total mess,[...]