Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Recent Posts
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Want to become a data-driven organisation? Start thinking differently about change management
- Freeform Dynamics 31 May 2023 -
Just because it’s innovative, doesn’t make it good!
- Freeform Dynamics 25 Apr 2023 -
The key to future IT success is a switch to managing services, not systems
- Freeform Dynamics 21 Apr 2023
Chatting with a client recently about the importance to a data-driven* organisation of having a good Chief Data Officer, or CDO, we turned to the topic of change management. But halfway through the ...
One of my hobbyhorses at the moment is how words and adjectives that ought to be simply descriptive acquire notions of ‘good’ or ‘bad’, and there’s one example that I think is quite dangerous. ...
For most of the history of commercial IT, system design has focused on meeting the availability, response time and security requirements of individual workloads. But technology and expectations ...
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Are tech vendors pulling their weight on fixing fragmented IT?
- Freeform Dynamics 20 Apr 2023 -
Digital identity: the many images of you
- Freeform Dynamics 03 Apr 2023 -
Trust: easy to lose, hard to recover
- Freeform Dynamics 23 Mar 2023 -
Dealing with the growing problem of edge and IoT sprawl
- Freeform Dynamics 20 Dec 2022 -
To maximise potential, mainframers must reach out and engage
- Freeform Dynamics 14 Dec 2022 -
Does application modernisation mean what you think it means?
- Freeform Dynamics 23 Nov 2022 -
VMware's breadth and depth impresses, but is it still a safe bet?
- Freeform Dynamics 22 Nov 2022
Many organisations have silo’d data and fragmented IT systems, but how much of this is due to the actions of IT vendors? Do vendors too often chase a quick buck, selling point solutions that don’t ...
More and more of the topics we deal with at Freeform Dynamics now also relate to digital identity. That’s no surprise, of course – digital identity is vital in this online age. We have multiple ...
Here are just a few of the topics that my fellow Freeformers and I have enjoyed researching and writing about in recent years: network security, SD-WAN, digital identity, smart wallets, digital ...
Amidst all the hype regarding the massive growth potential for IoT and for edge computing in general, there is an elephant in the room, and that’s edge sprawl. It’s as if the edge evangelists are ...
The team here at Freeform Dynamics has always had immense respect for the mainframe community, without whom big chunks of most developed economies would grind to a halt. That said, we sometimes ...
Most people in IT probably think they know what application modernisation is. For many it involves application refactoring - rebuilding the app using technologies such as containers and ...
At the recent VMware Explore conference in Barcelona, there was an elephant in the hall: Broadcom. VMware execs spoke about the $61bn acquisition positively, confidently even. It would be business ...
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Kubernetes and the open-source maintainer question
- Freeform Dynamics 07 Nov 2022 -
Digital identity and opening up the smartwallet
- Freeform Dynamics 01 Nov 2022 -
Has the cloud caught up with the mainframe?
- Freeform Dynamics 28 Jul 2022 -
What's up with Google's plan to supplant SMS and drive mobile e-commerce?
- Freeform Dynamics 19 Jul 2022 -
Like a teenager, Kubernetes looks almost grown-up, yet still a bit awkward and confused
- Freeform Dynamics 24 May 2022
While much of last month’s KubeCon-CloudNativeCon North America was focused on specific software projects, case studies and tech challenges, there was a discernible undercurrent of concern. And it ...
When an 80 year-old relative asks you how she can use her phone to both pay for shopping and get her supermarket loyalty points, like her friends do, you know that digital wallets are a success. ...
Yes, you read that right. For much of the last couple of decades, it's felt as if everyone has been talking about the impending demise of the mainframe, whilst simultaneously attempting to emulate ...
Ask most people what RCS stands for, and you’ll probably get a blank look. For Google and the others backing this new mobile messaging standard - whose full name is Rich Communications Services - ...
Platform: that’s the key word that sprung to mind after attending Kubecon-CloudNativeCon Europe 2022, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in Valencia last week. As in, Kubernetes ...