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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...

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...

Gartner, Inc. just released an industry report stating that within three years, 90% of organisations will adopt hybrid infrastructure management. “As the demand for agility and flexibility grows, organisations will shift toward more industrialised,...

The short answer is yes. If your business has an online component (pro tip: it should), then your business is vulnerable to bugs, hackers, hardware failures, natural disasters, interruptions to business continuity (and therefore lost revenues), and s...

Do you know how much an hour of downtime costs your business? Most business owners don’t. Studies show that for small to mid-sized businesses, an hour of downtime averages around $12,500 per hour. Now, for most non-IT gurus, 99.99% uptime sounds li...

Disasters aren’t polite. They don’t schedule themselves ahead of time. And disasters rarely occur in a tidy way. They can take out multiple systems and backups when they strike. You can’t schedule a disaster, but you can plan for it. And any mu...

Cloud hosting is the buzzword of the day in the tech world. While cloud hosting value – like reliability, flexibility, and scalability – is easy to see, what’s not so easy to see is the price of cloud hosting. In fact, to some businesses, esti...

Cloud computing has allowed many businesses to profit from its flexibility, power, and its relatively low cost of entry. It has been used by companies to outsource some or all of their IT applications and infrastructure since as early as the 1990’...

The short answer is there is no such things as perfectly, safe, 100% secured data. Data stored in-house is vulnerable to physical harm like fire or tampering from disgruntled employees. Data stored in a cloud, while protected from physical destructio...

This is one of those situations where you need to be asking the right question to get the answer you need. Is cloud hosting reliable? It depends. On what? The provider. The Good, The Bad, and The Cloud: Don’t Get Caught Out in a Rainstorm Cloud hos...