How can company bosses be expected to make big decisions about the parts of their business that they just don’t understand? The regularity with which large-scale data breaches seem to appear in the media headlines is near impossible to ignore. The fear of falling victim to such an attack is an everyday reality for most…
Taking the right level of care and avoiding BYOD’s biggest pitfalls should be a breeze. Most IT bosses will have spent time trying to convince their company’s big decision makers that IT investment is the way forward, but it’s not always a one-way thing. The chance to boost productivity and improve output can sometimes get…
Last week, the World Bank warned of the potential for a new financial crisis – one worse than the GFC. Of course, it may not happen (and I’m sure we’re all hoping it won’t). But if we do begin to see a downturn in economic demand, businesses will once again be looking for internal measures…
Security will always be on the minds of consumers but businesses must do what they can to minimise the fears Data is everywhere in the modern business landscape – companies of all sizes are using it to drive both minor and major decisions. Advocates of this ‘big data’ shift say that sizeable and complex caches…
In many businesses, backup and disaster recovery is ignored, priority being given to various daily IT concerns, upgrades, and maintenance problems. In your case, disasters might not be commonplace, but be assured, they do happen and must be planned for. The biggest culprits are hardware failures and user error—two things that will happen to every…
No Clear Direction All planning and execution will be severely hindered, unless everyone understands the rationale, requirements, objectives and limitations of a move. There are big decisions to be made right at the start, on which will the detailed planning process will be based, including; What: bigger, smaller, cheaper? Where: do we want to move…