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Throwback Thursday: Even data fragmentation has gone virtual
- Freeform Dynamics 20 May 2021 -
Paying for IT
- Freeform Dynamics 18 May 2021 -
Of cats and clouds: a lifetime TCO question
- Freeform Dynamics 13 May 2021
If there’s one thing that our report Storage Anywhere and Everywhere from eight years ago reminds us, it’s that the risks of uncontrolled data growth are nothing new. As our contribution to the bit ...
For much of IT history, your options for acquiring IT solutions were pretty limited. It was a choice between a one-off capital charge, combined with annual maintenance fees, and a three year lease ...
For better or worse, we are a cat household. Various moggies have come and gone over the years. These have mainly originated from shelters or people trying to offload excess kittens arising from ...
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Throwback Thursday – Data governance in software testing
- Freeform Dynamics 29 Apr 2021 -
Throwback Thursday: Private cloud in contexts old and new
- Freeform Dynamics 15 Apr 2021 -
Throwback Thursday: Mobile moments and the past left far behind
- Freeform Dynamics 01 Apr 2021 -
Remember when cloud was going to kill the IT channel?
- Freeform Dynamics 11 Mar 2021 -
Has the data centre of the future already arrived?
- Freeform Dynamics 25 Feb 2021 -
The WFH ‘New Normal’ is nothing of the sort
- Freeform Dynamics 15 Feb 2021 -
Effective IT recovery in small/midsize businesses, 10 years on? Maybe tomorrow...
- Freeform Dynamics 11 Feb 2021
Data and information governance is extremely important today, perhaps even more so than it was in 2008, when Freeform Dynamics ran a study looking at what was being done to enhance capability in ...
What a difference a decade can make. When we looked at the world of private cloud almost a decade ago, it was a new idea to many people – so new, in fact, that we had to define it for them. In ...
We have looked at many reports from years ago that show that, whilst technology details may have moved on, many of the underlying factors haven’t changed very much. But this glance back to 2009 ...
Cloud computing is now so much part of our everyday lives that it’s hard to remember a time when this wasn’t the case. Less than a decade ago, our surveys were still throwing up results confirming ...
Predicting the future is full of potential pitfalls, but analysts still insist on trying to do it, even when a study of the evidence illustrates how wild some forecasts have proven to be. But back ...
At least, not yet. The world is still in the very abnormal grip of a pandemic, and even with widespread vaccination we will be defending ourselves against the fear of further outbreaks for months, ...
Disaster recovery is important for every business, large or small. But how can small businesses with limited resources protect themselves? Especially as a ‘disaster’ doesn’t have to be caused by a ...
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10 years on, and HPC is taken for granted
- Freeform Dynamics 28 Jan 2021 -
Business performance management 14 years on: still chasing the real-time dream
- Freeform Dynamics 14 Jan 2021 -
How have attitudes to risk and resilience changed?
- Freeform Dynamics 07 Jan 2021 -
A prophetic look back at Green IT
- Freeform Dynamics 17 Dec 2020 -
Why I'm uneasy about the Salesforce Slack acquisition
- Freeform Dynamics 14 Dec 2020
In recent weeks we’ve looked back at several areas of IT. In many, we concluded that while today may look technically very different from yesterday, that’s just superficial: the underlying ...
As our contribution to the bit of fun that is Throwback Thursday, we're taking a regular stroll in the Freeform Dynamics archives. “Continuous innovation and real-time steering are needed in the ...
The New Year is traditionally a time for reflections as well as resolutions. With Throwback Thursday we are happy to offer you both, as we look back to June 2008, when Freeform Dynamics published a ...
Back in the summer of 2008, we surveyed almost 1500 IT professionals regarding IT and the environment. While many of the research findings still very much apply today, little did we know that some ...
When I first heard the news, my reaction wasn't as an industry analyst, but as a small business owner – and it wasn't positive.