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The Naked CIO: Service level disagreements
Comment What's more, against the backdrop of ever-increasing offshoring, these agreements contain the potential for disaster. Service level agreements are great at perpetuating mediocrity and blocking excellence. [07 Jul 2008]
The McCue Interview: Martin Taylor, group CIO, LCH.Clearnet
Comment Some of the successful projects delivered over the past year include a new disaster recovery data centre to address "significant" risk and capacity issues, a new storage area network that has significantly increased capacity and performance and... [17 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Warped perceptions
Comment Almost any single major natural disaster befalling humanity per year. To get a feel for the extent of the reality-skewing that goes on it is also worth looking at specific disaster reports and media predictions: [28 May 2008]
The Naked CIO: Offshore - or off their trolley?
Comment Growth and cost reduction of key resources is a recipe for disaster. Is our embattled hero right to take a stand on the issue or should he meekly submit? The outsourcing and offshoring debate rages on. [10 Mar 2008]
Why you should be outsourcing your data centres
Comment Western companies have long tended to build a production data centre and its sister disaster-recovery facility within a short distance of each other to deliver an acceptable network connection speed. However, after the 9/11 attacks, the Federal... [04 Feb 2008]
Data encryption brought into focus by HMRC
Comment But how can the public sector better safeguard itself from another HMRC disaster? The issue of data encryption has been brought into sharp focus recently with the HMRC data loss fiasco. Paul Bentham explains why it is important government staff... [21 Dec 2007]
From CIO to consultant: Knowing when to say no
Comment You can see it's going to end in a disaster - and possibly even mean more work for you in the long term. It didn't take ex-CIO Mike Barrett long to learn it really pays to be discriminating when it comes to taking the first steps in consultancy. [21 Nov 2007]
Getting more out of the net
Comment It also provides a practical way of separating IT infrastructure from IT users because keeping them housed in the same building is a business continuity disaster waiting to happen. For many businesses, the internet is now their main wide area... [02 Nov 2007]
On-demand software can help banks avoid fines
Comment Issues of data integrity, disaster recovery and security will weigh heavily on the minds of decision makers. Carol Wheatcroft argues that hosted services offer a viable alternative to in-house development - even for such sensitive operations. [01 Nov 2007]
Leader: Why security threats don't have to be taxing
Leader Let's just hope other UK companies start cooking up similar data breach response recipes to keep their customers on side if disaster strikes. It's not everyday you applaud the taxman - but HM Revenues and Customs (HMRC) deserves praise for its... [09 Oct 2007]
Far from quiet on the virtual front
Comment While other companies were promoting virtualisation for consolidation in large environments, Vizioncore linked up with VMware to introduce virtualisation and disaster recovery to smaller businesses. Vizioncore provides tools to simplify the... [05 Sep 2007]
Is outsourcing too risky?
Comment It is vital to accurately define the outsourcing service scope, because the 'your mess for less' approach is a recipe for disaster. Before an organisation decides to follow the outsourcing trend, attention must be paid to the many risks involved in... [23 Jul 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: How my iPod ate the weekend
Comment That's great because I never have to miss anything but also a disaster because I now feel I have to listen to everything. Steve Ranger picks the top three time-wasting offenders. A friend of mine - who perhaps understandably wishes to remain... [05 Jun 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment With this, all kinds of solutions - high availability, disaster recovery, consolidated back-up - become possible and enable the next generation computing environment: the optimised data centre. Quocirca's Dennis Szubert explains the many uses of... [15 May 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Thresher thinking
Comment Many people have and many have used them but is this viral marketing genius or disaster? Have you received a voucher for a great offer at off licence Threshers? Will Sturgeon explains why he thinks it's the former. [05 Dec 2006]
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