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,[...]