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IT infrastructure and asset management has become the backbone of a successful business. Unfortunately, many companies are still stuck in the relative dark ages when it comes to managing their IT asset lifecycle. It’s time to evolve and embrace a new paradigm. In this piece, the first of a series, we’re going to be looking…
We’ve come a long way from crowding around a CRT television, fighting over a wired controller and basking in the glory of 16-bit colours. Now, game graphics are getting practically (and sometimes frighteningly) indistinguishable from real life. However, until recently we’ve still been tied to physical game systems to be able to play. That’s all…
Data centres are the hidden heroes of IT. Whether you’re running your own setup, using cloud infrastructure or a hybrid of the two, you know that somewhere out there are racks of machines that form the backbone of your business. We’ve come a long way since the early 70s when Intel introduced the first general…
In our first article we took a look at how we arrived at the current situation, where supply chains are under extreme pressure. In Part 2 we’ll take a look at how IT organisations can build resilience into their supply chains to prepare for tough times ahead. There is an argument to be made that…
In this two part article, we take a look at why the IT supply chain is under threat. Then we give some guidance on what you can do to build more resilient supply chains. To say that the last two years have been disruptive across a wide swathe of industries would be like describing the…
If you’ve needed to order new tech – consumer or business – you’ve likely encountered a dreaded “out of stock” message. Even when you can place an order, wait times are in spans of months rather than weeks. The IT industry has been particularly affected as the face of tech supplies for business. Unfortunately, the…
If you missed Part I of our ‘Getting your head in the cloud’ series where we looked at public vs private cloud, you can find it here. Now that you’ve caught up, welcome to Part II ? So let’s begin at the beginning by answering a simple question. How did hybrid come into being? Full…
The year is 1996. ‘Trainspotting’ is opening in cinemas, the 100,000th website is launching on the internet (current count: 1,197,982,359), Dolly the Sheep is being cloned and, according to MIT Technology review, in an obscure office park outside Houston, a marketing executive for Compaq Computers is about to coin a term that will define the…
From Elon Musk to Mike Tyson, Snoop Dogg to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, it’s pretty safe to say that if Bitcoin hasn’t already hit the mainstream, it will very soon. The OG cryptocurrency has reached a level of popularity that even your grandparents are talking about it. And yet it is estimated that only 100…
Rate your businesses backup capability against our Backup Scorecard® A company-wide backup solution is like the plumbing in a hotel. When it’s working, no one pays any attention to it, it’s totally invisible. However, when it fails, it fails hard and the result is not pretty! The stress of receiving an alert about a data…