Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Recent Posts
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Edge computing could fail, if you only pay attention to the tail
- Freeform Dynamics 10 Jan 2020 -
Today's hybrid cloud looks more closed than open
- Freeform Dynamics 18 Dec 2019 -
Are your message threads tight or Slack?
- Freeform Dynamics 20 Nov 2019
In its obsession with software development, all too often at the expense of other disciplines, the IT industry has let the tail wag the proverbial dog for more than ten years. Now, with the rise of ...
We’ve had convergence towards hybrid clouds and ‘universal’ applications, but now we are seeing divergence towards different cloud platforms, each offering its own flavour of interoperability. ...
Why doesn’t Slack want us to use threaded replies to messages? At least, that’s the impression I come away with from having used at least five Slacks, some for business collaboration and others for ...
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DevOps needs more perspective and humility
- Freeform Dynamics 22 Aug 2019 -
Kubernetes catches up with operational reality
- Freeform Dynamics 12 Jul 2019 -
Mea culpa: Trendy isn’t the same as important
- Freeform Dynamics 21 Jun 2019 -
Threat vs trust: the overlooked power of words
- Freeform Dynamics 07 Jun 2019 -
Beware the Application Complexity Monster
- Freeform Dynamics 24 May 2019 -
Growing fast, OpenStack shakes off old misconceptions
- Freeform Dynamics 15 May 2019 -
Hard drives that do their own data processing
- Freeform Dynamics 02 Apr 2019
DevOps started as a grass-roots movement led by practitioners. The motives were pure, and focused simply on finding better ways of doing things for the good of everyone involved in software ...
With Kubernetes now established in many organisations as the container orchestration platform of the future, are cracks already starting to show? Well, not exactly – but if I could pull out one ...
I hate it when you realise that your point of reference has been unduly influenced by what’s currently trending rather than what’s really important. A recent briefing with Jim Liddle of Storage ...
Words have power – in particular, your choice of words modifies how your readers or listeners react to what you write or say. Politicians do this sort of thing all the time, swapping one word or ...
How many new applications, tools, devices, and cloud services have you introduced into your environment over the past few years? Now think about how much you got rid of over that same period, i.e. ...
One of the most interesting things about the recent Open Infrastructure Summit – the new name for the OpenStack users and friends conferences – in Denver was how many people wanted to know if I ...
It’s getting hard these days to find places where container technology doesn’t feature, but in a hard drive? Yet that’s what is being explored in one of the Storage Networking Industry Association ...
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Cybersecurity needs both psychologists and field marshals
- Freeform Dynamics 19 Feb 2019 -
How Brexit-friendly are your SaaS contracts?
- Freeform Dynamics 09 Jan 2019 -
How long will your New Year stay Happy?
- Freeform Dynamics 04 Jan 2019 -
Six months on, GDPR is a qualified success
- Freeform Dynamics 20 Dec 2018 -
Google Chrome: It’s more than a browser
- Freeform Dynamics 23 Nov 2018
Many cybersecurity professionals like military analogies. Indeed, some security pros are ex-military. But after a recent security exercise involving IBM’s new lorry-mounted SOC (security operations ...
If you think Brexit will be advantageous for the UK economy and the British people, this post is not for you. If your assessment of the available information, like mine, is that our economy will ...
The Freeform Dynamics crystal ball has been given a polish for 2019. Here's a few of the upcoming events - and risks - that we glimpsed in it... Online privacy back in the headlines A year on from ...
Anyone hoping that we would by now have greater clarity on GDPR will have been sadly disappointed. Large swathes of the Regulation have yet to be tested in a court, and many of the high profile ...
Google Chrome Enterprise. What is it and how might it affect your digital workplace strategy? Take control now and don't loosen your grip.