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 …
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For argument’s sake let’s say you’ve heard about this ‘cloud’ thing and how everybody is using it. They say there are lots of benefits to it but you, like most people, don’t quite get it. You’re probably questioning who ‘they’ really are and if you should get on board with …
With all the attention at the moment on the latest ransomware attacks, IT risk management is a timely topic. Having a risk management system in place puts your organisation on the front foot when dealing with any risk event, but especially major events. And getting a basic risk management system …
By now the WannaCry ransomware has been in the wild for around 5 days. Reports vary on how many countries have been affected, and how many computers have been affected, and which industries have been most affected etc etc. There is a common thread amongst most of the 50,000 articles …
Backups. One of the most boring, and important, aspects of running a modern business. When I’m discussing backup and disaster recovery (DR) options with a client one of the first questions I ask is “How much data can you afford to lose?”. Almost invariably the answer is “None”. To which …
It seems everywhere I go these days I hear the acronym IoT; Internet of Things. These “things” will make my city, my home and my office smart. So what are these “things” of the Internet? In their most basic form they are a sensor that communicates information across a network, …
Data is the life blood of many organisations. Whether it is represented digitally or physically, it is a critical component in the success of a business. Users that work with and create data learn to understand its value which can create a problem when they decide to leave a company. …
The Raspberry Pi has long held the attention of the techies and hackers since its launch back in 2012. A credit card sized computer running Linux for US$35: why wouldn’t it? There’s a plethora of projects and applications out there for the Pi but for the most part, these are …
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