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IaaS, the infrastructure IT utility?

When a business today opens an electricity bill it sees the amount of electricity used over the billing period and the cost per kilowatt hour. What the business doesn’t see is a separate flat rate all...

Rhian Wilkinson 16 February 2016
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Finding your gurus: How tech recruitment has changed

The recruitment process must continually adapt and evolve to meet changes to its business environment. In the technology industry, these changes seem to occur at an ever-faster pace, with smartphone t...

Rhian Wilkinson 16 February 2016
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Take one Safe Harbour regulation, shred it, reheat it and what do you have?

Privacy Shield The EU and US have agreed a new pact to replace the data transfer mechanism called Safe Harbour that was declared invalid late last year. It is hoped that the new pact, called Privacy S...

Andy Johnson, Author at Compare the Cloud 15 February 2016
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Securing Access in a Cloud Environment

According to the Oxford English dictionary, the modern-day definition of the word ‘privilege’ is “A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group”. Mm...

Rhian Wilkinson 15 February 2016
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The secrets of a successful big data implementation

In the face of increasing austerity, the UK public sector must explore new ways of increasing operational efficiencies in order to generate cost savings, while improving the quality of services it pro...

Rhian Wilkinson 15 February 2016
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Data is the key to a customer’s heart on Valentine’s Day

This time last year, Google revealed that there had been a year-on-year increase of 41% in ‘last minute valentine’s gift’ searches. Time is an invaluable commodity in the modern world and with the bes...

Rhian Wilkinson 12 February 2016
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When Sneaky Marketing Backfires

Recently we have seen a proliferation of mistakes from marketing departments across the world. There have been some fantastic marketing spins that are only now biting back at the companies that implem...

Rhian Wilkinson 12 February 2016
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What do you do about cyber-security when your data centre is all at sea?

Recently I was dispatched to Lille to attend the 8th International Cybersecurity Forum to report live, and shortly after I shared some key insights from the top keynotes focusing on the political agen...

Rhian Wilkinson 12 February 2016
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An introduction to zsah

Compare the Cloud has been interviewing cloud experts and learning about their companies, today the spotlight is on zsah, a London based MSP that prides itself on customer loyalty and satisfaction. Es...

Rhian Wilkinson 12 February 2016
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Provisioning Cloud Applications

Enterprise app stores have become popular, employee-friendly ways to encourage employee self-service – allowing users to get the apps they need, when they need them. But many organisations don’t fully...

Rhian Wilkinson 11 February 2016