/// Tag Archives: servers
What Is Governance Anyway?
January 11, 2012
Imagine that you’re CIO of a supermarket chain. Feels good, huh? All that power. Now imagine this: it’s the middle of January and a...
The Financial And Environmental Benefits Of Using Mainframes
December 23, 2011
There comes a time for every organisation when they need to examine where they are and where they want to be in the future. When...
How To Mitigate Risk Of Power Outages In The Cloud
December 09, 2011
Power outages such as those experienced by the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft in recent months are not only hugely embarrassing for the cloud...
Networks Now And Tomorrow: The Changing Hub And Spoke Model
December 01, 2011
The times, they are changing – even for the traditional hub and spoke models of networking. These changes come with serious repercussions: control structures change;...
5 reasons why you should invest in a business continuity plan
September 16, 2011
A business continuity plan is an essential part to any company, no matter how big or small. Most businesses will experience an incident that involves...
Why cloud computing will be the new trend for this Autumn
August 16, 2011
There are some trends which are artificially created. I cannot believe, for example, that next year’s fashion trends for Spring have already been decided. But...
Combating the legal data protection risks of iCloud
August 15, 2011
Apple’s iCloud has attracted a lot of attention, and take-up of business and consumer cloud services continues to rise. Businesses looking to operate a cloud...
5 reasons the cloud won’t kill your career
August 02, 2011
If you’re an IT professional in a small company, the prospect of cloud adoption may seem like a death knell for your career. After all,...
Don’t write-off the mainframe!
July 22, 2011
I’ve lost count of the number of headlines I’ve read over my adult life which publicise the failures of IT: “£1bn wasted as flagship IT...
NASA hacker compensation payment refusal case highlights the high cost of data breach remediation
July 14, 2011
Reports that a Romanian hacker has refused to compensate the US government for hacking of various government systems comes as no surprise. The case is...
When you approach the cloud, think about these risks
July 05, 2011
Here is an interesting article in the NYTimes passed to me by my US CTO. It makes you think about putting data in the...
5 tips for minimising risk during cloud migration
June 07, 2011
Many organisations are moving to Cloud to create more ‘elastic’ resources or benefit from financial savings. The recent high profile outages from brand-led public Cloud...
HTML5 throws a domain hissy fit
June 06, 2011
In my last post I overviewed a number of new communications features in HTML5 that in my mind will no doubt transform web applications moving...
HTML5 brings new capabilities for communication
May 26, 2011
The web started birth with very much a “click and wait” experience. Any interaction with the server meant a round trip of data across a...
Is Dropbox viewing your files?
May 19, 2011
When a company achieves the status of a giant it is easy to assume that they have sold the corporate soul to the devil to...
