McKinsey – in its IT as a Service Cloud and Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure surveys – predicts that organisations are switching away from a build to a consume as-a-service model for corporate IT services. The consulting firm predicts that the a...
Resilient data centres, technology time lapse. I had the opportunity to visit several data centres in Europe this week. They were all pure colocation plays, primarily selling conditioned real estate (data hall space, power and cooling) to large enter...
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Lost in the cloud. Ignorance is not bliss. A long-standing myth about cloud is that it is simple. It simply is not. The reality is that when it comes to the cloud, what you don’t know can hurt you. Companies attempting a go-it-alone cloud migration...
Why Cloud? Let us count the ways. Cloud brings a new model to IT, one based on the delivery of services rather than the delivery of technology. With cloud computing as the foundation for IT modernisation, organisations can reduce capital expenditure...
In IT today, all signs are pointing in one direction: to the cloud. By 2020, nearly 70% of all enterprise IT spending across the globe will be for cloud-based offerings1. In Australia, a hybrid IT strategy—incorporating a mix of on-premise and colo...
In an earlier article, we looked at network security basics and how we can borrow guidance from the PCI Data Security Standard to make sure our firewall rules are documented and reviewed on a regular basis. This articl...
A disaster recovery plan is probably the most ambitious, hardest, all-encompassing task an IT department will take on. If you’ve written a disaster recovery plan, take a moment and pat yourself on the back. Congratulations! Now, once you’ve reste...
It seems every week you read a story about unsecured databases being exposed on the Internet, information being held for ransom, or even children’s teddy bears being attacked without their owner’s knowledge. While ...