They say a chain is only as strong as its weakest link and that principle could not hold more true with respect to IT security. Many companies spend vast sums of money on IT security: firewalls, intrusion detection, SIEM logging and alerting; the list goes on. But it may surprise …
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2007 doesn’t seem all that long ago, that is, until you stop and think about it, especially for those of us with a few more years under our belts than we’d care to admit. In the last 10 years a lot has happened, especially in terms of technology. I mean, …
Making IT great again! What I learnt from Donald J Trump We’ve all heard of him, whether it’s from his TV show to his presidency (which, let’s be honest, came as a shock bigger than Nollsey’s 2003 Idol robbery). After extensive research, I’ve created the “Trumpy Rules To Live By” …
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We all know the old saying – “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. It seems to make a lot of sense. But in the context of operating systems, particularly those of the desktop and laptop fleet, it doesn’t necessarily hold true. I have seen this used by businesses in …
Dragging your feet – Why you shouldn’t leave your desktop fleet in the past READ MORE…
Project management is a highly underappreciated art form. Only a true professional knows how to spin the plates of stakeholder engagement, budgeting, communication, goals and challenges along with the to-be-expected spanner in the works that threatens to smash at least one of those plates. These are the three things that …
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What’s important to a CEO is very different from what’s important to an IT manager, or a systems administrator. Business people generally don’t understand the ins-and-outs of the technology used to run their business, much as technologists don’t (present company excluded, I’m sure) understand the ins-and-outs of how a business …
Business Value Dashboards – A New Solution To An Old Problem READ MORE…
If you have ever had the pleasure of managing the IT operations of an organisation you will know that it is largely a thankless job. In many cases you have inherited systems and staff, leaving you to make the best of what you have.  Added to this are the pressures …
As IT demands grow, many businesses find themselves in need of a little support. In some instances, this support can be minimal where only an occasional helping hand is needed, for when you really don’t feel like setting up that new PC yourself. Other times it can be the outsourcing …
Technology Tinder – 5 Things to Look for in an IT Partner READ MORE…
Whilst researching this article, I decided to just Google “CIO-as-a-Service” to see what came up. Interestingly the first 47 organic search results were either links to vendor’s service offering pages or blogs doing the soft sell. So clearly IT service providers feel that there is a market opportunity here. What …
“Look how much money we’ve made in the last year, and look how many of our customers have gone all-in to our cloud” – every keynote speaker at major cloud vendor conferences ever. Funnily enough, there is a correlation between these two statements. Before I go any further, I’ll just …
Hybrid IT – What Cloud Vendors Don’t Want You Thinking About READ MORE…
