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IBM: Linux desktops bucking the recession
Blog But interest in the open source desktop is confirmed, says IBM, by a new independent study by Freeform Dynamics which indicates that more than 70% of Linux desktop deployments are spurred by cost savings and that IT staff say Linux desktops are...
[May 21, 2009, 9:19]
Mind mapping software as a lifecycle management tool
Blog Well, according to analyst David Tebbutt from Freeform Dynamics, “Over sixty commercial applications are available for the PC, the Mac and the web. Indeed, Freeform Dynamics’ Tebbutt has pointed out that, “Mind-mapping started out as a very...
[October 21, 2009, 15:44]
Report: Desktop Linux in Business Environments
Blog Freeform Dynamics Ltd, and IBM have just released a business report titled Linux on the Desktop Lessons from mainstream business adoption. While I'm part way through, it's already obvious that it contains a good deal of useful information on the...
[May 21, 2009, 9:35]
Analysts expect Yahoo to accept Microsoft's offer
Blog lost 30 percent of its share price over the past year," said analyst John Collins of Freeform Dynamics. The conference call with Microsoft on its plans to acquire Yahoo is winding up and although though we are only hearing from the Microsoft camp...
[February 1, 2008, 13:07]
Red Hat, Microsoft expand virtualisation alliance
News This development is to be welcomed," said Tony Lock, an analyst with Freeform Dynamics. Red Hat and Microsoft said on Monday they will be expanding their alliance on virtualisation technology and enabling each other to validate their respective...
[February 17, 2009, 14:30]
Agile programming power everywhere, no thanks!
Blog As the ever-affable Jon Collins of Freeform Dynamics said, “If something goes wrong {… with Agile…} there can be a domino effect on other parts of the project. Following on from a comment I made in relation to a post by Richard Stobart from Unboxed...
[September 28, 2009, 6:42]
Salesforce.com outage hits thousands of SaaS users
News Commenting on the outage, senior analyst with Freeform Dynamics, Tony Lock, said: "Having a service interruption like this one is certainly noticeable when you have a vendor like Salesforce.com that has been delivering pretty good service over the...
[January 8, 2009, 7:56]
Backup 3.0 update adds Linux files
News However, as analyst Martin Atherton of Freeform Dynamics pointed out, the field still has plenty of room, given that adoption of virtualisation is still on the increase. Veeam Software has released Backup 3.0, an update to its backup and...
[February 17, 2009, 7:19]
Gartner: Appetite for storage beats the slump
News Storage just continues to beat the market and will continue to grow," said Jon Collins, an analyst with Freeform Dynamics. While the wider world felt the bite of the recession, the world of storage continued to enjoy growth last year, according to...
[March 6, 2009, 16:16]
Storage devices get common crypto standard
News Security analyst Jon Collins from Freeform Dynamics welcomed the standards, saying they were "fantastic, a good idea". A group of major technology companies has agreed on common cryptographic standards for protecting data on storage devices.
[January 29, 2009, 13:36]
IBM beats up on HP, Sun, etc
Blog Analyst Tony Lock of Freeform Dynamics says that he has, "seen this all before, many times". The struggle for market leadership between IBM and HP burst out in the open on Thursday with IBM claiming that since 2004 it has replaced some 5,000 HP...
[November 21, 2008, 16:28]
Security experts advise caution in the cloud
News Cloud computing in general and SaaS in particular present a challenge for companies, as they necessitate a complete change in security thinking, said analyst Jon Collins of Freeform Dynamics. Cloud-computing services are on the rise, but the...
[December 9, 2008, 15:44]
Microsoft opens SaaS to others
Blog This underlines the point that there is no gorilla in the market for SaaS," said analyst Jon Collins of Freeform Dynamics. On Sunday, Microsoft said it was moving towards the idea of opening up its online business applications so that its partners...
[March 9, 2009, 15:01]
IBM could buy Sun Microsystems
Blog Tony Lock, an analysts with Freeform Dynamics said that a possible purchase of Sun by IBM would be a "logical move" but that the companies had "very complementary strategies". Talks are possibly underway for the systems giant IBM to buy Sun...
[March 18, 2009, 9:10]
EMC offers tool for managing virtual systems
News Root-cause analysis is a bit of a holy grail," Tony Lock, of analysts Freeform Dynamics, told ZDNet UK. EMC launched Smarts Server Management, an analysis tool for managing virtualised datacentres, on Wednesday.
[March 11, 2009, 16:17]
IBM's latest DB2 woos Oracle customers
News According to Dale Vile, research director with analysts Freeform Dynamics: "DB2 is starting to come into its own now, and IBM is really getting the software tools together as well". IBM on Wednesday released the latest version of its database...
[April 23, 2009, 17:21]
Microsoft gives discounts on software licences
News This is good news for users but Microsoft should be shouting about offers like this," said Tony Lock, analyst with Freeform Dynamics. Microsoft has cut the price of leasing software by as much as 25 percent.
[March 12, 2009, 14:48]
Start-up promises to speed web data access
News The use of solid-state drives in caching is becoming more popular with corporate customers, said Tony Lock, an analyst at Freeform Dynamics. Start-up Schooner Information Technology has launched two appliances that are intended to significantly...
[April 15, 2009, 15:30]
Cloud Security Alliance set to launch at RSA
News Suddenly, you say I have to give it to a third party," analyst Jon Collins of Freeform Dynamics told ZDNet UK recently. A trade organisation dedicated to cloud-computing security has been announced. The Cloud Security Alliance, whose founding...
[April 2, 2009, 13:17]
Virtualisation 'bottleneck' removed for graphics-intensive workstations
Blog I contacted Jon Collins at analyst house Freeform Dynamics for his opinion on this development as just this morning I had been reading his Virtualisation - The State of Play presentation on the web. Since attending the Parallel’s Summit 2009 back...
[March 31, 2009, 12:04]
