It’s the four words we all dread: “we are being audited”. Queue the sweaty palms, dry throat and a damp brow. You rack your brain trying to remember the last time you performed a DR test and pray (a) it was successful; (b) you documented it, and (c) you have...
Implementing a multi-cloud strategy has its benefits: speed to market, flexibility, scalability, risk mitigation and greater operational efficiencies come to mind. However, managing more than one cloud technology isn’t always easy. The biggest roadblocks I’ve...
It wasn’t all that long ago that we were beefing up our on-premises server rooms with air conditioning units and uninterruptible power supplies to improve business continuity. Invariably, internet connections would go down, redundant circuits failed to take over, or...
On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest, where does your business rate on the IT Maturity scale? What are you using as the basis of your assessments? For most IT practitioners, particularly those that have come up through the ranks, there’s a tendency to...
Productivity is key for every business: at best, it can be irritating when it’s impeded for some reason outside your control, at worst, it can put you out of business. From bursting pipes through to natural disasters, not having an effective business continuity...