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Friday Night Cloud: Episode 2: The Naughty Bits
In Episode 2 we discuss the Internet of (Naughty) Things, Online Gambling Scams, Rubbish of the Net and Internet Security
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Preparing for moving to the cloud?
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Following the Money: Investment in the Cloud
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Cloud and the move to managed services
It’s now fairly universally agreed that the “break-fix” model of IT support is itself broken, and in need of a fix. It doesn’t work in the best interests of either the IT support provider, or the cust...
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Financial processes are dependent upon mutual trust between all parties involved. The reason why individuals lend money from a bank rather than, say, the wealthiest person in their town, is because th...
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Automate for a more successful private cloud deployment
It’s no wonder that an ever growing number of organisations are investing in virtualised, automated data centres and private clouds, considering the greater agility and better security offered compare...
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Is a cloud or on-premise model preferable for UC?
When it comes to their communications systems, enterprises are battling technological and vendor confusion. Microsoft has disrupted the market enormously by introducing Microsoft Lync and the recent r...
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Managing hybrid cloud
The decision to implement cloud computing is just the first step in a long journey. Each organisation then has to choose the mix of services that is best for their needs based on cost, SLAs and whethe...
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Delivering Strategic IT Intelligence
CIOs need better insight into the performance of the IT infrastructure to support strategic decision making and continually improve IT utilisation. Many CIOs, therefore, are understandably aghast at t...
The great rivalry between Azure and AWS
Reflecting on the long game! Every now and then it pays to step back and reflect on the broader trend rather than the monthly grind. We decided to reflect on how the major cloud players had fared so f...
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It’s time for CIOs to change strategy in the fight against consumer technology
There is no denying that the role of today’s CIO is increasingly complex and unpredictable. Every day there are new stories about data breaches or data losses, with high profile cases bringing data se...