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← View all opinionsWith just two months to go until the pioneering week-long data science festival, DataFest17, two more high-profile speakers have been confirmed. Hilary Mason, former chief scientist at bitly and found...
Changing a traditional critical business application is a major undertaking. But a move to cloud-based SaaS solutions can be even more complex. When negotiating contracts with your chosen vendor, ther...
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell took out the first patent for the telephone. Sometime between 1936 and 1938, Konrad Zuse invented the Z1, the world’s first programmable computer. The years that followe...
The Common Argument We are all concerned about the growing skill shortage in the mainframe space, in fact it’s a fairly pervasive problem across the heritage system space in general, be it Mainframe,...
The most common objection I come across when discussing Disaster Recovery (DR) is, “Oh, well we don’t get hurricanes or floods or anything like that, so we don’t need DR”. To which I always reply “Tha...
As enterprises look to deliver cutting-edge services to their tech-savvy customers, move into new markets, rethink their business models, and disrupt entire industries, the CIO needs to enable digital...
Along with well wishes, this New Year we have been inundated with warnings from experts and journalists that 2017 will entail an upsurge of DDoS, IoT and Ransomware attacks that will exceed by far 201...
Businesses are always seeking improvements in how they process and analyse large volumes of data. The usual business case is that it’s a major boost to efficiency and effectiveness - but there’s more...
Technology, organistion’s and user expectations have all changed so dramatically over the last decade that companies are now looking to leverage this shifting landscape to fundamentally alter the way...
The unpredictable pandemic has forced various business sectors to shift their workforce and adopt work-from-home culture overnight. Every ongoing business process switched its operations entirely onli...
The recent Dyn attack - which, is in fact, the largest to date - brings to light the blunt force of Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks are relentlessly persistent, the worst o...
Buyers of public cloud need to ensure that they understand the full cost of the services they require or they could have an unpleasant shock when their first bill arrives. The headline costs for publi...