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The Curious Case Of IT Maturity
January 31, 2012
A few years ago, many IT departments had reached a level of IT maturity whereby they had strong, established processes underpinning delivery of IT to...
What Are The Outsourcing Options For Businesses?
January 20, 2012
The pace of change of technology causes problems for organisations of any size, but for the small to medium enterprise (SME) sector, it can cause...
Best Practices For Managing And Sharing Highly Sensitive Documents
January 19, 2012
Nearly every organisation needs to share highly sensitive documents over the Internet. The healthcare industry, for example, has numerous highly sensitive documents that must meet...
Top 12 B2B eCommerce Predictions For 2012
January 19, 2012
Today I’d like to share my Top 12 B2B e-commerce predictions for 2012. The predictions are based upon research, news, trends, industry discourse and customer...
Managing The Risks From Cloud Computing
December 21, 2011
I’ll begin with an apology for being yet another person talking about “The Cloud”, but there is a reason. I recently read a post that...
Cloud Computing Will Outlive And Outgrow The Hype
December 16, 2011
When you talk to a bona fide Cloud supplier they talk in the straight-forward, clear and non-technical way about the business benefits of Cloud computing....
Modern IT Infrastructures Demand A New Approach To Monitoring And Management
December 09, 2011
In an era of tight spending, reduced profit expectations, rising utility costs and environmental concerns, enterprise computing infrastructures are now increasingly reliant upon outsourced managed...
Streamline Or Bust!
December 01, 2011
Continued margin erosion, nervous customers and increasingly limited opportunities for differentiation are placing unprecedented pressures on the IT reseller community. With business failure on the...
Is It Possible To Monitor Applications In The Cloud?
November 30, 2011
Business-driven processes for measuring and guaranteeing service levels in the cloud will help CIOs successfully transition to this new environment. Monitoring public cloud applications is...
Looking at IT basics: Understand and automate
November 16, 2011
The IT industry has a long history of looking to the future. From its initial roots in mainframes, through to today’s increased interest in cloud...
REVIEW: Mozilla Firefox 6
September 09, 2011
From statistics freely available on the Web, it’s clear that Mozilla’s Firefox, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Google’s Chrome are the most popular browsers today, with...
5 security questions you must ask your SaaS provider
August 17, 2011
Software as a Service is seeing sustained growth and sustained adoption in both enterprise and in the home. According to a Gartner release in July...
Why Apple should make iCloud open
August 15, 2011
Apple’s new iCloud service will undeniably bring more mainstream attention and acceptance to the concept of cloud storage and syncing. But to attract business users,...
Is Apple’s iCloud the future of the enterprise?
August 11, 2011
Apple’s iCloud.com beta website has just gone live, and we’re closer than ever to launch. The nebulous hosted data environment has obviously existed for several...
Why are organisations cautious about handing data over to Apple’s iCloud?
August 11, 2011
“This is the cloud the way it should be: automatic and effortless…” So claims Apple on its website. But while iCloud is a fantastic endorsement...
