Foreword: This article is an excerpt from a white-paper designed to help IT and business leaders understand the exciting opportunities enabled by a successful migration to the cloud, particularly the hybrid cloud. Click here to download your free co...
International computer virus ‘WannaCry’ causing havoc. Over the weekend news broke about a global cyber security emergency that has impacted hundreds of thousands of computers around the world. It has caused serious disruption in health care, eme...
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 ...
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...