Barclay Ballard
Tips for implementing good information governance
As businesses finish another financial year one area that receives a lot of attention around this time is compliance. However, this is only one component of something much larger that businesses of al...
A brief history of disaster recovery
Driven by high-profile cyber attacks and data losses, disaster recovery has become common parlance for businesses all over the world. But this hasn’t always been the case. Disaster recovery has underg...
E-commerce: Speed and scalability is everything
There are many factors to consider when choosing an e-commerce platform but two of the most important are speed and scalability. The reasons are simple; online shoppers expect a fast online experience...
The importance of choosing the right channel partner
Channel partnerships may have changed in recent years, but they remain as important as ever. Previously, the partner model was centred on resale, margins and collecting upfront revenue, but as the tec...
Is the internet a basic human right?
Freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial and freedom from discrimination. These are just a few of the fundamental rights that we consider to be necessities; things that no human being should b...
Japan’s special relationship with robots: Tech fact or fiction?
There has been much written and said about Japan’s appreciation of all things robotic. This oft-quoted cultural phenomenon has been propped up with plenty of explanations, cultural, economic and even...
Why the UK needs its own privacy-focused search engine
Most of us would agree that privacy is important. Without it, our ideas and actions are exposed to the world without our consent – something that even the most open of individuals would surely accept...
Gaming gets serious to solve workplace challenges
You may think of gaming and the workplace as incompatible concepts. The former is usually thought as being fun, entertaining and trivial, while the latter is often typecast as important, structured an...
Managing and maximising your virtualised resources
Virtualisation has provided many benefits for businesses. Previously, organisations would have needed to employ a number of physical servers, perhaps one for each application, each of which would have...
Cloud opens up opportunities for those tied to ERP
There are many compelling reasons why organisations turn to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to manage core business processes and collect and interpret data from a variety of activities su...
A day in the life of a company in FinTech
The FinTech market is accelerating at a rapid pace. Global investments in FinTech firms reached $5.3 billion over the first quarter of 2016, an increase of 67 per cent when compared to the same period...
Why we can look at award winners to shape and improve our game
What to learn from a micro-SME winning a G-Cloud award When running EuroCloud in the UK, a role I enjoyed for 3 years to July 2015, there was one unmistakeable signal that shone out from the activitie...
Where are you better connected: At sea or in space?
It is often said that we know more about the Moon they we do the deepest parts of our oceans here on Earth. Whether or not that statement holds up to much scrutiny, it is certainly true that both the...
How will the EU Referendum affect IT compliance in the finance industry?
On the 23rd June, the UK electorate faces its biggest decision in a generation. The debate surrounding the EU referendum has focused on a variety of issues: immigration, national sovereignty and econo...
Cloud migration: Shining a light on the hidden costs
Salesforce’s recently announced the availability of its Internet of Things (IoT) cloud, which will be hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and represents a step change in the way the company integrate...
Post-Cloud Deployment: Making it work for the long term
Cloud infrastructure has heavily infiltrated enterprises over recent years and many key decision makers will be able to tell you of its many benefits to business. These being, most notably, increased...
Will the banks take control of the FinTech movement?
Blockchain and its derivatives (e.g. Bitcoin, Ethereum) have pretty much dominated the FinTech headlines these past few weeks. [easy-tweet tweet="In order to gain maximum leverage from #FinTech innova...
Is the Fintech Revolution being held back by regulatory hurdles?
Traditionally, banking has been viewed as one of the most staid, old-school, stuck-in-the-past industries. [easy-tweet tweet="#FinTech intends to totally disrupt the lives of those working in the fin...
Would you know if your cloud had been hijacked?
The benefits of cloud computing have been extensively documented, but what isn’t discussed as much is the growing opportunity for cyber attacks that cloud environments create. The majority of cloud st...
The network foundations for business success
Although best known for the telephony services it offers to UK consumers, TalkTalk has been steadily growing its business customer-base by developing a flexible, high capacity IP network. Already, the...