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Blog entries posted during 2009

Hugo Harber

Where is my data?

by: Hugo Harber

I think it’s fair to say that we’re all comfortable with public content being served from public services that anyone can access. I think it’s also fair to say that given the choice, we would all choose low cost public services to store...

09 December 2009


Grant Tanner

BPO, ITO, KPO, HRO...it’s all outsourcing!

by: Grant Tanner

Can Cloud make the breakthrough? There is so much talked about the pros and cons of outsourcing – whether this is being used for manual mundane tasks, like Insurance Claims Processing or the traditional Asset Take Over - Lease Back model that was...

07 December 2009


Hugo Harber

My Top Ten Corporate Security Threats

by: Hugo Harber

Security threats are more than just a distraction. An attack directed at financial or personal records or business-critical applications is potentially devastating. But even indiscriminate attacks can result in the loss of valuable data, high repa...

24 November 2009


Hugo Harber

A multi-layered approach to security works best

by: Hugo Harber

Security is a management problem with a technology solution. It isn’t a check-list of do’s and don’ts - it’s a discipline covering the business’ IT infrastructure. When it comes to security, a multi-layered approach works best. For instance, worms...

20 November 2009


Hugo Harber

Agile software development meets the shopping list

by: Hugo Harber

Every software development project has a shopping list of tools and infrastructure and your list is typically sent to the internal IS team where they start to go through a purchase and provision process. You hope to be given an ETA so you can star...

19 November 2009


Hugo Harber

Waiting until it is too late, costs more.

by: Hugo Harber

Security spending is a cost that’s notoriously difficult to justify in traditional cost/benefit terms: you spend a lot on security and in the best-case scenario nothing happens! But it’s important to remember that reactive security spending is...

16 November 2009


Hugo Harber

Are you bailing out a leaking boat!

by: Hugo Harber

Over the years the threat to your data and network has changed and evolved though it still might feel a bit like bailing out a leaking boat. The threat no longer comes through a single point like the rogue USB, but from multiple points of entry to...

06 November 2009


Hugo Harber

Avoiding Single Vendor Lock in with cloud computing

by: Hugo Harber

You have infrastructure in place right now; it’s built on a common Windows or UNIX platform and you’re either in-sourcing or outsourcing the hosting. As cloud computing matures your business has more and more options to move services to the cloud....

30 October 2009

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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