Why independent consulting is important.
In the world of technology, we often work with companies and trusted partners who we think have our best interests at heart. After all, we’re a customer and we’ve been working with them for some time, why would they offer us advice or services that …
Why monitoring is critical in todays world.
In the world of IT, when people are asked about monitoring, generally the response is about up/down monitoring for servers, Network Operation Centres looking at banks of screens with red, green and amber blobs on them showing them a rough status of what’s going on. …
Don’t get attached to the technology, get attached to the outcome.
As an industry, technology can at times be very fad/fashion based. Not many industries try to entirely reinvent themselves every 10 years, the IT Industry though? It’s exceptional in this area. Walk into a meeting with senior IT leaders and talk about deploying Physical Servers, …
Thoughts on IoT/Edge Computing and the Cloud
Recently, there has been a lot of talk around how Edge Computing/IoT/Processing at the edge will be a major focus moving forward. I tend to agree with this approach and I think it’s following a pattern that’s always been there in computing. Going into the …
The Importance of good monitoring services
Monitoring is often quite an overlooked area in IT Services. In the world of service providers, it tends to be an afterthought and in the IT Department, it’s often not budgeted properly or doesn’t quite get the attention it deserves until something goes wrong. For …
Treat Everyone as a Remote Worker
So, it’s now 2017, we’ve reliable mobile communications with 4g, we’ve started to nail getting things into the Cloud and we’ve got good connectivity everywhere. We’ve even got powerful Laptops and Mobile devices. What’s the benefit I hear you say? Absolutely none if you …
