/// Tag Archives: infrastructure
How To Ensure Business Continuity In The Cloud
January 26, 2012
Cloud computing provides an opportunity for organisations to optimise the procurement of IT services from both internal and external suppliers. The cloud is not a...
Top 5 Considerations For Deploying A Cloud Integration Platform
January 23, 2012
Over the past 12 months I have posted a number of blog entries relating to cloud-based B2B integration and I will summarise these posts in...
Cloud Computing Predictions Have Never Been Livelier
January 10, 2012
Analysts, media and vendors have all been busy, offering their predictions about this year’s technology winners and losers. In making predictions however, it’s also important to...
Why Outsourcing Anxiety Is Misplaced
January 10, 2012
Outsourcing is often seen as a threat by an internal IT department but this anxiety is misplaced. On any given day, an IT department’s schedule...
Colocating IT: Removing Myths From Decision Making
December 22, 2011
In the current climate, businesses want to get the best possible IT services for the best possible costs. Outsourcing is often part of this: from...
Grasping The Cloud And Not Thin Air
December 15, 2011
It seems that everyone these days is looking to embrace cloud services in some way or form, whether it is in order to become more...
How Secure Is Your Cloud?
December 12, 2011
Despite security concerns, cloud adoption is on the rise. Cloud has been a buzzword for some time now, with varying definitions, so it is no...
Sending Faxes Anytime From Anywhere Is A Big Plus For Any Organisation
December 06, 2011
We live in a world where our need to be connected is always present, even when we’re on the move. If you’re on a business...
IT consumerisation: Does it mean covert activity at work?
November 04, 2011
Nobody likes it when people go behind their backs to get what they want. IT departments are no different. But, with IT Consumerization...
The time is right for hosted data centres
October 31, 2011
The impact of rapidly rising volumes of data running on the word’s networks is striking. IDC Research recently reported a 62% jump in the amount...
Elastic computing – welcome to the new world
October 10, 2011
You have to admit that we are really good at dreaming up new terms in the world of technology; and every now and then (ok,...
Why the pragmatist will benefit most from cloud computing
September 30, 2011
Cloud computing is an exciting concept for users of IT. They get what they want, when and where they need it. And because they only...
Changing the way Broadband is sold in Britain
September 30, 2011
With the introduction of new ‘help notes’ by the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP), it seems that the traditional way of flogging broadband to unsuspecting...
What do you do when your Web application isn’t performing?
September 09, 2011
If you are running an organisation that relies on its website for business, or you are launching a service that potentially thousands of individuals can...
Why the cloud will benefit from Amazon’s ElastiCache
September 07, 2011
Amazon ElastiCache is a managed caching service, which means all managing, monitoring and operating of an in-memory cache environment is taken out of the customer’s...
