Blog entries tagged with Infrastructure

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

Are the services you buy designed for the end user?

by: Hugo Harber

When you go to your telecoms provider what do you get? Lines, servers and appliances or do you get end to end services? As we deliver more and more functionality to our ever more demanding end users the work of the IT department involves increasin...

22 February 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

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

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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