A wave of pride has swept through the Starboard IT after our recent ISO27001 certification, and for very good reason. This is recognition of the quality of workmanship that our staff and management deliver day to day and clearly set us apart from providers that are not certified. For those …
You may have heard recently that Microsoft have finally set a date for the retirement of Skype for Business Online. That date is July 31, 2021, after which the service will no longer be accessible. Sounds like a long way away but you’d best start preparing now as moving off …
The world is awash with information. We live in the information age. The personal journey is different for everyone, while some are overwhelmed and disengage never to return again. No Facebook, no online newsfeeds, no google, and definitely no Siri. Others embrace information and technology, and businesses are no different. …
Implementing a multi-cloud strategy has its benefits: speed to market, flexibility, scalability, risk mitigation and greater operational efficiencies come to mind. However, managing more than one cloud technology isn’t always easy. The biggest roadblocks I’ve experienced impacting businesses today in their journey to multi-cloud nirvana are: Resource constraints – According to …
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Every business needs to stay competitive and innovation is the usual path taken to achieve this outcome. There are countless examples where innovation through technology has revolutionised or disrupted particular industries, unfortunately, not all projects are successful. The BBC has captured the struggles of implementing innovative projects in their popular …
It wasn’t all that long ago that we were beefing up our on-premises server rooms with air conditioning units and uninterruptible power supplies to improve business continuity. Invariably, internet connections would go down, redundant circuits failed to take over, or when IT was still relegated to the basement, the server …
I dream of the day that I perform my role from anywhere at any time. Telecommuting, work from home, working remotely, or whatever you want to call it has been with us for several decades now. For some its become a reality, with freelancers who rely solely on an internet …
Women in tech. We’ve all seen a variation of the statistics around gender bias in this industry, it’s alarming. But like many topical issues that flash across my newsfeed, I hadn’t quite had a chance to think too deeply on the issue. That was of course, until some recent events …
Many projects are managed solo, meaning that the team consists of a project manager and a team of implementers. This means that the PM is expected to wear many hats that pull them away from their core role. This often can spill into areas such as system design, organisation change …
As the namesuggests, Digital Transformation is the use of technologies to fundamentally change the way an organisation delivers its products and services to its customers. The end goal is to produce a step-change in results for the organisation. At first glance, this sounds like it should be a natural progression …
