Blog entries tagged with Cloud

Hugo Harber

When IT goes Bad!

by: Hugo Harber

I was reading this morning that the FiReControl Plan (a universal panacea for the fire service) - estimated cost £120m, actual cost £470m value delivered £0 – had been abandoned! I was immediately worried that whoever named the project didn't know...

21 September 2011


Hugo Harber

Let’s face it: Cloud has Gone Mainstream

by: Hugo Harber

Cloud is now a mainstream solution. I don’t say this because every cloud pun has been uttered and written or because every IT business has a cloud strategy now; it is because in almost every tender document I look at there is reference to cloud...

08 December 2010


Hugo Harber

Any Neutrals in the Net Neutrality argument?

by: Hugo Harber

I never sit on the fence. However, I am split by the net neutrality arguments. The reason for this is that there are really two arguments here:   1.        Should providers block users from accessing content via their connection to the internet? 2...

06 December 2010


Hugo Harber

Outsource, Managed Service or Cloud

by: Hugo Harber

One has to make a clear distinction between outsourcing, managed service and cloud. Outsourcing is all about wholesale transference of internal competencies, responsibilities and assets of a department or function to another party, these are almos...

22 September 2010


Hugo Harber

Just who is “waking up”?

by: Hugo Harber

I am sometimes asked whether SME's are "waking up" to the benefits of cloud computing .  I see it the other way around; that they have been searching for answers to everyday business problems for many years, and the ways of accessing new...

16 August 2010


Hugo Harber

A look to the (not so distant) future

by: Hugo Harber

The needs of UK businesses are evolving at an unbelievable pace – a technology aware workforce, challenging economic climate and access to new technology advances almost every day are creating the perfect climate for progression. Out of all of the...

17 May 2010


Hugo Harber

When should you question pay per month services?

by: Hugo Harber

Recently I’ve been exploring my options around backup solutions for my personal data and I came across a number of services that were aimed at personal, SME and large enterprise sized clients. It dawned on me that the personal SME focused services...

24 March 2010

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Hugo Harber

Buying services from the cloud

by: Hugo Harber

Last time I talked about the attractiveness of buying services more flexibly, on a user centric basis, and have been asked by a couple of people what types of services are best suited to this. My response to this is simple; it's not what you buy i...

25 February 2010


Hugo Harber

Cloud so what?

by: Hugo Harber

Many of our customers are looking at how to make the most of the newly created cloud services . Of course how to achieve this varies from business to business but to generalise there are some activities you can embark on which will help you make t...

15 January 2010


Hugo Harber

Your cloud doesn’t have to be public

by: Hugo Harber

As companies move to SOA and cloud, concerns around security are being raised. You can understand why, the label ‘cloud’ conjures up a picture of publicly accessible services and applications, spread across multiple locations. The fact is that...

15 January 2010


Hugo Harber

Remove the jargon to discover the benefits

by: Hugo Harber

Convergence, Cloud and Unified Communications are terms which have bandied around by technology companies for a few years now, but tend to mean little to the businesses I talk to. Over the next few weeks we will look at some of these terms and...

05 January 2010


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


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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